An exhibition of high quality reproduction prints, taken from woodblocks created by the acclaimed 18th century artist Sharaku presented alongside interpretative works by contemporary Japanese graphic and fine artists, opens at the Tennessee State Museum on February 18th. Sharaku Interpreted by Japan’s Contemporary Artists, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan and The Japan Foundation. The exhibition takes as its theme Toshusai Sharaku, ... Read More

NEW YORK, NY – In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum presents Animal Collective in collaboration with experimental visual artist Danny Perez for a site-specific performance on Thursday, March 4, 2010. In conjunction with Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum and in the context of Tino Sehgal, for which the entire Guggenheim rotunda is cleared of art objects for the first time in the museum’s history, Animal Collective and Danny ... Read More

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Susan J. Bandes, director of Michigan State University’s Kresge Art Museum, will step down from that position to pursue research interests and teaching, effective May 1. Bandes will remain a full-time professor within the Department of Art and Art History. “In Susan Bandes’ nearly a quarter of a century as director of the Kresge Art Museum she has doubled the size of the collection and the staff,” said Karin Wurst, dean of the College of Arts and Letters. ... Read More

Opening reception Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The University Art Museum is pleased debut the first U.S. museum survey of the British artistic team John Wood and Paul Harrison. Combining aesthetic restraint and slapstick performance, Wood and Harrison are ingenious inventors, stuntmen, and occasional masochists who often employ their own bodies as “raw material.” Their low-tech films contain no special effects or gimmicks. Instead, using a variety of simple ... Read More

The Contemporary Jewish Museum has announced the appointment of James Leventhal as the Deputy Director for Development as of February 22, 2010. Mr. Leventhal brings 24 years of experience of working in the arts with his major appointments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and most recently at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, where he was the Director of Development and Marketing for the last seven years. “It’s truly extraordinary that the community has come together and built a ... Read More

BALTIMORE, MD – Discover how Cézanne transformed American art at the beginning of the 20th century. Cézanne and American Modernism, on view through May 23, 2010, brings together 16 of the French master’s paintings and watercolors with more than 80 works by 33 American artists, including Marsden Hartley, Maurice Prendergast, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray. Marsden Hartley, “Mont Saint Victoire”, 1927. Private Collection of Elaine and Henry Kaufman Along with the ... Read More

Blackbaud, Inc., the leading provider of software and services for nonprofit organizations, today announced that Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest art museum in the western United States, has selected and will implement its integrated solution for arts and cultural organizations. “Blackbaud will not only be our keystone business systems provider, they will also be an important strategic partner, helping us to re-engineer our business processes for resource ... Read More

On Thursday 25 February, the Rubens & van Dyck exhibition opens at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. From then until 23 May, visitors will be able to see works by two of the 17th century’s leading painters and some of their disciples. The exhibition brings together works by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck, two of the leading painters of the 17th-century Baroque, highlighting the relationship between them and their unparalleled influence on Flemish painting in their day. In all, ... Read More

New York, NY – Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle, presented by the Museum of Arts and Design from May 11 through mid-August 2010, will display the designs of six internationally renowned bicycle builders whose work in metal, as well as graphics and artifacts, elucidate this refined, intricate and deeply individual craft. Organized by Michael Maharam, owner of the eponymous textile company and an avid bicycle collector, along with master builder Sacha White of Vanilla Bicycles in ... Read More

František Kupka took painting to its essential elements: the plane, line and dot. Over the course of his career he developed a highly distinctive and unique style that still defies any attempt to classify it due to its focus on science, philosophy and mysticism. In addition, Kupka’s work suggests new approaches to interpreting the birth and evolution of modern art. The exhibition is open through 25 April, 2010. Born in Bohemia in 1871, František Kupka first studied at the School of ... Read More

DALLAS – Gary Mack, Curator at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, is calling it “the best home movie known to exist of the Kennedy arrival in Dallas on November 22, 1963″ that he has ever seen. For the first time, color film and new glimpses of President and Mrs. Kennedy arriving on Air Force One on that fateful day is being released for public viewing. On November 22, 1963, local television stations were broadcasting live coverage of the Kennedy arrival at Dallas ... Read More

Fort Worth, Texas – The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame announced the never before seen Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image exhibition, which will be displayed in Fort Worth, Texas, open through September 6th. The exhibition, a collaboration between the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, explores the relationship that artist and Cowgirl Hall of Fame Honoree O’Keeffe had with nature through her camping ... Read More

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will feature more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings of seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of the pre-eminent late-19th-century American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent (1856—1925), open through May 23, 2010. Following a presentation at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this fall, Houston´s showing is the final stop in the United States before the exhibition travels to London´s Royal Academy. Dr. Emily ... Read More

New York, NY – The Museum of Arts and Design presents a major exhibition of global jewelry drawn exclusively from the unparalleled collection of Daniel and Serga Nadler, which was pledged as a promised gift to the Museum last year. This special exhibition will showcase approximately 150 masterpieces from Northern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Hill Tribes of Southeast Asia, including massive neck ornaments, ankle bracelets, and intricately crafted earrings. More than ... Read More

Guests will be the first to view over 20 progressive new art projects presented by Fountain Art Fair New York, NY – For the first time, the Museum of Arts and Design will partner with Fountain Art Fair, the alternative pick for NYC’s 2010 Armory weekend running March 4 – 7, 2010. Fountain Art Fair is known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. The Museum of Arts and Design, which is currently presenting Slash: Paper Under the Knife, the critically acclaimed ... Read More