Article Archive for January 2010
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH TO BE HONOURED BY QLD MUSEUM
Sir David Attenborough will tonight be honoured with the Queensland Museum’s highest award, Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Kate Jones said today. Ms Jones said internationally renowned marine sponge research scientist Dr John Hooper would also receive the 2010 Queensland Museum Medal at a Southbank awards ceremony. The awards mark the anniversary of the founding of the Queensland Museum 148 years ago on 20 January 1862. This year’s awards are themed around the International Year of ... Read More
Bloody Sand Creek Massacre Shown in Sculpture and Film at Booth Western Art Museum
On January 21, 2010, the Booth Western Art Museum, in Cartersville, Georgia, will host a sculpture unveiling and film screening featuring sculptor Craig Bergsgaard and award-winning writer/filmmaker Don Vasicek. These two prominent Colorado artists independently portrayed the tragic events of an 1864 skirmish between the United States and the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes on Sand Creek near Eads, Colorado. Who Bergsgaard and Vasicek will be on hand at the Booth Museum for a screening of an abridged version of ... Read More
Andy Griffith Museum opens in Mount Airy
The Andy Griffith Museum has opened, providing a permanent place for the world’s largest collection of Andy Griffith memorabilia. The museum is located next door to the Andy Griffith Playhouse, a half-mile from the actor’s boyhood home. It houses a treasure trove of items collected by Emmett Forrest, a schoolmate and close friend of Griffith. Forrest’s collection has been displayed at various places in Mount Airy over the last 15 years, but never had a true home until the doors opened in mid ... Read More
Rediscovering Slobodkina at Sheldon Museum of Art
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art presents “Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction” beginning Jan. 26. On view through April 18, the retrospective showcases Esphyr Slobodkina’s role in the development of American abstraction. The exhibition includes her noted abstract artworks from the 1930s to 1950s, two original 1939 “Caps for Sale” book illustrations, her sculpture and assemblages, including Sheldon’s 1939 piece, ... Read More
Steelcase Receives Good Design Awards From Chicago Athenaeum Museum
Steelcase Inc., (NYSE:SCS) a global office environments manufacturer whose products help individuals collaborate and work more effectively and organizations use space more efficiently, announced that the Chicago Athenaeum of Architecture and Design has awarded several of its products with a Good Design(R) award. Products awarded were Elective Elements 6 New Solutions, Campfire Big Lamp, QiVi, Denizen, Emu Ivy and Emu Heaven. Founded in 1950, Good Design awards publicly acknowledge the world’s most ... Read More
Ernesto Neto: Navedenga on View at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art will present Ernesto Neto: Navedenga, an installation of the room-size sculpture Navedenga (1998) by Ernesto Neto (born 1964), one of the most influential Brazilian artists working today. Navedenga was acquired in 2007 and is on view for the first time at the Museum from January 22 to April 26, 2010. The installation is organized by Doryun Chong, Associate Curator, and Nora Lawrence, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art. Ernesto Neto. ... Read More
Slightly Unbalanced Exhibition at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond Museums
On January 26, 2010, The University of Richmond Museums opens the exhibition Slightly Unbalanced, on view through March 4, 2010, at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art. The exhibition features work by 18 nationally and internationally known contemporary artists focusing on a range of psychological tendencies, including anxiety, obsessive behavior, depression, and narcissism. In their work, the artists question what constitutes normalcy and what qualifies as neurosis, a slippery and suggestive behavior. This ... Read More
Exotic Encounters: Art, Travel and Modernity from the Bruce Museum Collection
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, demonstrates the powerful relationship between traveling and art, both in its making and collecting in Exotic Encounters: Art, Travel, and Modernity in the Collection of the Bruce Museum, a major, new exhibition drawn from highlights of its own collection on view in the Museum’s main galleries from Saturday, January 23, 2010, through Sunday, April 25, 2010. The show is supported by the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund. Exotic Encounters reveals a ... Read More
Diana Thater: Between Science and Magic at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Diana Thater: Between Science and Magic. Working in film, video, and installation, Diana Thater has been an innovator in her medium for 20 years and is best known for creating complex visual and spatial environments. Between Science and Magic is a simple, and beautiful, interpretation of “movie magic”—a century-old expression that still conjures the mythology of Hollywood filmmaking. Diana Thater: Between Science and Magic opens on January 16 and continues through ... Read More
Rodin Museum Will Reinstall ‘The Thinker’ Following Facade Conservation and Restoration
Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, one of the artist’s most famous works and a familiar fixture of Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum, will be reinstalled on its pedestal outside the Museum’s entrance on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Wednesday, January 13th. Since June, the sculpture has been on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Great Stair Hall, while the Rodin Museum’s limestone façade, known as the Meudon Monument, underwent restoration. “The Thinker”, Auguste Rodin, French, 1840 ... Read More
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