Article Archive for February 2010
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa Launches 2010 Villa Theater Lab Series and New Villa Playreading Series
Los Angeles – The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa announces its annual Villa Theater Lab Series, beginning February 19, featuring works-in-progress versions of new translations of Greek and Roman plays as well as contemporary works inspired by ancient theater. This year, the Museum is also presenting a new Villa Playreading Series, offering an opportunity to watch “script-in-hand” readings by professional theater artists of lesser-known Greek and Roman plays in translation. The Villa Theater ... Read More
Hunters and Artists of Late Ice Age Europe: The Magdalenian World at The Peabody Museum
(Cambridge) – Near the end of the last Ice Age, glacial ice sheets in Europe retreated, and people could finally expand beyond their Ice Age refuges. How would they adapt to their new environment? The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents the Hallam L. Movius, Jr. lecture by archaeologist Lawrence Guy Straus titled “Hunters and Artists of Late Ice Age Europe: The Magdalenian World” on Thursday March 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, followed by a free public reception. With elaborate tools such as ... Read More
Penn Libraries Receive $4.25 million gift for Special Collections Center
The Penn Libraries have received $4.25 million for the renovation of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) and the creation of a Special Collections Center. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a member of the Libraries’ Board of Overseers. This is the largest gift to the Libraries from a living donor. “Because of this gift, we will have a multi-purpose space in our Rare Book & Manuscript Library that is equal to the scholarship that our special collections inspire,” said Penn ... Read More
Kent State University Museum to Open Anniversary Exhibition
Kent, OH – The Kent State University Museum is to open the Silver Anniversary Exhibition on March 11, 2010 in the Higbee Gallery in honor of its 25th anniversary. The exhibit will feature 25 of the Museum’s most shimmering pieces and serve as a survey of costume history from 1750 through 2006. “There are four signature pieces which really set the tone for this exhilarating exhibit,” said Jean Druesedow, director of the Museum and curator of the exhibit. “One is a magnificent Bob ... Read More
Glasgow Museum of Transport to Close
Glasgow’s Museum of Transport will close on April 18 2010. Cars, trams, trains, bicycles, model ships and the Glasgow’s Museum famous recreated “street” – will become part of the new £74m Riverside Museum which is expected to open in early 2011. Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG), which runs the museum, still has to raise £2m for The Riverside, and a public appeal for more funds will be launched in the near future. A new website – www.riversideappeal.org – has been launched to spearhead the ... Read More
Sharaku Interpreted by Japan’s Contemporary Artists at the Tennessee State Museum
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, known throughout Japan and ... Read More
Guggenheim Presents Animal Collective and Danny Perez Performance
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 Perez will premiere an ... Read More
Director of Kresge Art Museum to Step Down
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. “Among her important ... Read More
John Wood and Paul Harrison at the University Art Museum
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 props, the artists primarily ... Read More
James Leventhal Appointed New Deputy Director for Development at Jewish Museum
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 model for museums in the ... Read More
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