Articles in Museum News
Opening of the new Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)
More than 15 years after the time Moderna galerija was allotted the use of one of the buildings in the former Yugoslav People’s Army barracks in Metelkova Street, the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM), the new unit of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, is opening on Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 8 p.m. The MSUM will house the collection of contemporary art (the national and the international Arteast 2000+ collections) and stage a related exhibitions program. Located in MSUM there are also some of ... Read More
Signal – Center for Contemporary Art Presents Kostis Velonis The Promise of Happiness
Signal – Center for Contemporary Art presents Kostis Velonis The Promise of Happiness. On view 25 November 2011–19 February 2012. Opening: Friday 25 November at 7–9pm There is something promising, something desirable about the Swedish model, especially in times of global economic crisis when the Swedish economy seems to stand as unaffected and well rooted as a pine tree in the deep forests. This is of course not entirely true, but the cliché image is striking. The project of modernisation with ... Read More
Reynolda House Museum of American Art Reports Record Breaking Month
The numbers are in, and results show that last month was the best October in terms of walk-in visitation for Reynolda House Museum of American Art since the museum opened the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing in 2005. Throughout the month, 2,868 people visited the museum to tour the historic house and view the featured exhibition “Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.” To provide an accurate comparison from year to year, attendance reflects walk-in visitation only; programs and special ... Read More
kestnergesellschaft Presents alice springs | people
kestnergesellschaft Presents alice springs | people an exhibition on view through 5 February 2012. In a comprehensive show entitled “people”, the kestnergesellschaft will present around 150 works taken over the past 40 years by the photographer Alice Springs (*1923 in Melbourne, proper name June Newton, née June Brown). Using the pseudonym Alice Springs, Helmut Newton’s widow began to develop her own photographic oeuvre in 1970. Although international stars take centre stage in the ... Read More
Faberge Museum Acquires Still-life in the Avant-garde Style
The Fabergé Museum has acquired a stone-cut jeweled still-life that is made in the avant-garde style. It shows a fragment made of silver depicting the newspaper, Vedomosti SPB gradonachalstva, dating from 18 October 1905, and with a brick made of red jasper. This date is significant because the famous October Manifesto by Czar Nicolas II was published in the newspaper on 17 October 1905. The Manifesto was at the time considered as a prototype to the first Russian Constitution; and in this document Nicholas II ... Read More
Dulwich Picture Gallery Shows Newly Restored Painting of Saint Cecilia
The Dulwich Picture Gallery has unveiled its newly restored painting: Saint Cecilia. The campaign to restore this seventeenth-century masterpiece to its original appearance began in 2009. The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, with support from The Pilgrim Trust, adopted the painting and its frame, enabling conservation work to begin. Rips were repaired, the painting was cleaned and its frame was adjusted to fit. The results of this painstaking work will be unveiled tonight in an event to include a performance ... Read More
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB Presents Hans Op de Beeck Sea of Tranquillity
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB Presents Hans Op de Beeck Sea of Tranquillity on view through 15 January 2012. Hans Op de Beeck, ‘Captain’ 2010. Sculpture on base (polyester, textile, silicone, wood, paint), approx 100 x 100 x 220 (h) cm. Exhibition at Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin Visiting the exhibition “Sea of Tranquillity” is like being in a dream. This installation conceived by visual artist Hans Op de Beeck ... Read More
Christie’s to Auction American Masterworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Christie’s fine art auctioneers will offer a group of paintings formerly in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture auction at its New York saleroom on November 30, at 10 am. The five works—by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, George Inness and Severin Roesen—are expected to realize upwards of $500,000, collectively. The museum will use these funds to strengthen its collection through the acquisition of a uniquely significant painting ... Read More
CAM Raleigh Opens ID.ENTITY Exhibition
On view at CAM Raleigh from November 18, 2011 through February 13, 2012, is the third installment of the Emerging Artists Series featuring a group exhibition by the following artists, faculty, and students affiliated with the North Carolina State University College of Design, Department of Art+Design, and the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D. program in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Kevin Brock, Lee Cherry, Patrick FitzGerald, McArthur Freeman, II, David Gruber, Jae Ji, James ... Read More
Frick Center for the History of Collecting Names Mary L. Levkoff Winner of its Biennial $25,000 Book Prize
The Frick’s Center for the History of Collecting has awarded Mary L. Levkoff its Sotheby’s Book Prize for a Distinguished Publication on the History of Collecting in America for her critically acclaimed 2008 monograph Hearst the Collector (Abrams and Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Comments Frick Director Ian Wardropper, “Since its inception at the Frick Art Reference Library four years ago, the Center for the History of Collecting has fostered a high-level of discourse through fellowships, research ... Read More
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