Article Archive for January 2010
Watercolor Highlights from the Permanent Collection at The Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum
Some of the finest watercolors at the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts are on view through Oct. 24, 2010, in the exhibition Watercolor Highlights from the Permanent Collection. The D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts began collecting watercolor paintings and works on paper in the early 1930s when it first opened to the public. Because watercolors are subject to fading when exposed to light for extended periods, the paintings in the exhibition are shown only rarely. Winslow Homer – The New Novel, ... Read More
New-York Historical Society Announces $5 Million Donation from Joseph and Diana DiMenna to Create an Interactive Children’s History Museum
The New-York Historical Society today announced that it has received a $5 million donation from Joseph A. and Diana DiMenna for the creation of a new interactive museum for children to be built as part of the renovation of its landmark building. The gift will support the design and construction of the new facility, which will immerse children in American history by exploring and re-enacting the experiences of young New Yorkers throughout the centuries. In honor of the gift, the space will be named the DiMenna ... Read More
Long Beach Museum of Art Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the Museum’s Permanent Collection
The Long Beach Museum of Art announce’s that 2010 marks the 60th Anniversary of the Museum’s impressive permanent collection. To celebrate this exciting milestone, the Museum will present an extended exhibition series titled Celebrating Sixty, which will feature eight rotating exhibitions that respectively highlight specific elements of the rich history of the Museum’s collection. The first installment of Celebrating Sixty will offer a glimpse into the past of the Long Beach Museum of Art when they ... Read More
The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater at The Katonah Museum of Art
(KATONAH, NY) What do you think of when you read the word “puppet”? The Katonah Museum of Art (www.katonahmuseum.org) will challenge your thoughts and preconceptions with the presentation of The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater opening February 28 and running in all three galleries through June 13, 2010. In every culture man has created stories and myths to explain the forces surrounding him and the fears, hopes and dreams he carries within. For centuries, masks and puppets have been used to add magic to ... Read More
Superb Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts to be Exhibited at the Morgan Library & Museum
New York, NY, November 30, 2009—The fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries saw the last great flowering of Flemish illumination. As a complement to The Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition of The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, which goes on view January 22, 2010, a separate show of eighteen illuminated Books of Hours from the area of and around Flanders (part of modern Belgium) will be presented. Flemish Illumination in the Era of Catherine of Cleves opens simultaneously with the Cleves exhibition ... Read More
Cranbrook Art Museum and Cranbrook Institute of Science present North American Début – Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change
As part of Artology: the Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook Bloomfield Hills, MI —”Cape Farewell – Art & Climate Change” — the second exhibition in the series Artology: the Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook –explores the most challenging environmental issue of this century and is making its North American début at Cranbrook Institute of Science on January 31, 2010. Open through June, 13, 2010. Created by the artist David Buckland in 2001, the Cape Farewell ... Read More
Mullin Automotive Museum Hires JMPR Public Relations to Promote New Venue
The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., has hired JMPR Public Relations to handle its public relations outreach and media relations initiatives, which are planned to garner international awareness of the Museum’s debut in Spring 2010. The Mullin Automotive Museum pays homage to art deco and the machine age (1918-1941) ? design eras that produced exquisite art and magnificent automobiles. The museum is home to examples of the finest of historic French automobiles from the Bugatti and the Delahaye, ... Read More
Marc Leuthold Retrospective at The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art show a mid-career retrospective for artist Marc Leuthold Feb. 6 through April 25, 2010. The exhibition, Marc Leuthold, Sculpture, 1995-2010, surveys the artist’s signature ceramic sculpture produced during the past 15 years. Museum Director Thomas Piché, Jr., curated the exhibition, which is accompanied by an illustrated catalog. For his exhibition at the Daum, Leuthold has created “Offering,” a multidimensional environment that will transform the museum’s largest ... Read More
Writing the Earth: 2,000 Years of Geography and Mapping at the Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents the new exhibition Writing the Earth: 2,000 Years of Geography and Mapping from January 30 through May 2, 2010. The exhibition features a selection of world maps that were printed between 1511 and 1800 and are on loan from a private collection. The show also includes a small group of maps from 1570 featuring the Americas. The exhibition is supported by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund. Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570. ... Read More
Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons at The Fleming Museum
Nearly twenty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, Views and Re-Views invites a post-Cold War assessment of Soviet graphic arts and presents a stunning array of images spanning more than six decades from the time of the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) – during which period the Bolsheviks and their western-backed opponents struggled for control of the new state – to the late Soviet period. Drawn from an extensive private collection of Soviet propaganda, this exhibition includes posters, ... Read More
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