Article Archive for January 2010
Columbia Museum of Art sets attendance record on final day of Ansel Adams exhibition
Columbia, SC – The Columbia Museum of Art set a daily attendance record of 2,006 visitors from noon until 5:00 p.m. last Sunday, January 17, which was a free admission day courtesy BlueCross BlueShield of SC. Sunday was the last day for the popular exhibition, Ansel Adams: Masterworks, which opened October 23, 2009 and featured many of Adams’ most famous and best-loved photographs that encompass the full scope of his work. Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984), “Orchard”, Portola Valley, ... Read More
In the Shadow of Everest Photographs by Tom Wool at The Rubin Museum of Art
In the Shadow of Everest presents photographer Tom Wool’s images of life in the villages of Tibet’s Rongbuk Valley. Taken over the course of four weeks in May 2001, Wool’s photographs capture the Valley’s rugged terrain which stretches roughly fifty miles from the base of Mount Everest on the north side. Home to some 3,000 Tibetans, the Rongbuk Valley area is of distinct importance to the indigenous population for its sacred geography and religious history. Believed to be the place where ... Read More
Everson Presents “Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held”
The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held January 30 – April 4, 2010. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012. “We are excited to present Jen Pepper’s work in the first installment of this new series,” said Debora Ryan, Everson Museum of Art Senior Curator. “She is using the gallery space in a new and exciting way that ... Read More
Works on Paper by Koen van den Broek at The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
From 30 January to 16 May 2010, SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, will be holding a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Koen van den Broek (°1973, Bree). Almost concurrently, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp will, for the very first time, be showcasing his work on paper. The pieces included in this exhibition are works in their own right, not studies for other paintings. Moreover, it is very recent work, created in 2009 during stays in the South of France and Los Angeles. In ... Read More
Rome After Raphael at The Morgan Library & Museum
In the early 1500s, Rome’s majesty was a distant memory: its marble temples and palaces had been ransacked; its population was a fraction of what it had been in antiquity. Yet, over the course of the next hundred years, the Eternal City would experience an amazing rebirth, as a series of popes rebuilt and revitalized Rome and its population doubled. At the center of this metamorphosis was an unprecedented influx of artistic talent and creative exchange. It is this remarkable period in art history that is the ... Read More
Exhibition Devoted to Agnolo Bronzino at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Drawings of Bronzino, the first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), brings together nearly all of the 61 known drawings by, or attributed to, the great Florentine court artist of the Medici. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 20 through April 18, 2010, the exhibition features drawings of extraordinary beauty and rarity which are seldom on public view, and draws loans from major museums and private collections within Europe and North America, including the Galleria ... Read More
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Appoints Joshua S. Friedman and Steven F. Roth to Its Board
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced the election of two new members to its Board of Trustees: Joshua S. Friedman, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based asset management firm, and Steven F. Roth, Executive Vice President of World Oil Corporation, a family-owned oil company. “It has been impressive to watch the continued growth of our board,” said LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan. “We welcome Joshua and Steven to our ... Read More
A FREE Chinese New Year celebration at the Columbia Museum of Art Family Fun Day: Chinese New Year
Columbia, SC – The Columbia Museum of Art, in partnership with the Chinese Association of Columbia, hosts the only public celebration of the Chinese New Year for families in Columbia on Sunday, February 14 from noon until 3:00 p.m. Admission to the galleries and the event are FREE, courtesy BlueCross BlueShield of SC. Families welcome the Year of the Tiger and watch a traditional New Year’s Dragon and Lion Dance and a Chinese Fan Dance, learn about three-dimensional Chinese paper-cutting with kid friendly ... Read More
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Acquires New Work by Walton Ford
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired a major new work by Walton Ford, an artist winning international acclaim for his highly detailed, monumental watercolors of exotic birds, reptiles and mammals. In The Island, Ford presents a writhing pyramidal mass of Tasmanian wolves (thylacines) grappling with each other and a few doomed lambs. The violent extermination of the thylacines, which were hunted to extinction in the early 20th century, calls into question who is hunter and hunted in this savage ... Read More
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Redevelopment Update
Following the announcement last year that the MCA had received planning approval for its $50 million redevelopment, the Museum is delighted to unveil this new series of artist’s impressions of the new building. As the images illustrate, plans for the new museum are taking shape at a rapid rate under the guidance of Sydney architect Sam Marshall, and the Government Architect’s office. These images showcase how the redevelopment will create a contemporary northern wing with education as a continuing central ... Read More
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