Articles in Museum News
Philadelphia Museum of Art announces retirement of Cheryl McClenney-Brooker
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced that Cheryl McClenney-Brooker, the Museum’s Director of External Affairs since 1987, will retire on March 2, 2012, after 29 years of service. Over the years, Ms. McClenney-Brooker has been a key member of the Museum’s senior administration, serving to generate a broad range of initiatives to attract, engage, and build audiences for the Museum and to advocate on behalf of the Museum to elected officials and many other constituencies. Timothy Rub, ... Read More
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) Selects Steven Holl Architects to Partner in Developing New Museum Facilities
Plan will unify the MFAH campus, linking with existing gallery buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo, the Glassell School of Art, as well as a sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi, to create a nearly 10-acre public campus in the heart of Houston’s Museum District Houston — Cornelia Long, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced that Steven Holl Architects has been selected to partner with the board and staff of the museum in developing an ... Read More
Morris Museum of Art opens Fore! Images of Golf in Art
The Morris Museum of Art presents Fore! Images of Golf in Art an exhibition on view FEBRUARY 4–APRIL 15, 2012. LeRoy Neiman, Tiger in the Woods, 2006. Oil and enamel on panel. Image courtesy of the artist A society of golfers was, apparently, organized in Savannah, Georgia, in 1796. But it wasn’t until 1888 that the first permanent club, the St. Andrew’s Golf Club, was organized in Yonkers, New York, by John Reid and a group of associates. Ever since then, the game has been ... Read More
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition
The Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition open January 27 – February 19. The competition is the oldest and one of the most prestigious student art competitions in the country. Past winners include noted artists such as Red Grooms and Andy Warhol. Cheekwood and The Tennessee Credit Union have been regional sponsors of the art portion of the competition for eighteen years. The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a ... Read More
National Portrait Gallery / BT Road 2012 Exhibition
Over 30 stunning printed panels showing newly-commissioned photographic portraits of top athletes and key figures involved in the staging of London 2012 can be seen outdoors twenty- four hours a day in British cities throughout this Spring and Summer. Highlights of the largest photographic commission ever undertaken by the National Portrait Gallery, London, made possible by London 2012 sponsor BT, will include large-scale portraits of Jessica Ennis, Victoria Pendleton, Tom Daley, David Weir, ... Read More
Corcoran Gallery of Art opens Shadows of History. Photographs of the Civil War from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents Shadows of History: Photographs of the Civil War from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell an exhibition on view February 4–May 6, 2012.Photographer unknown, “Ready”, Bat’y ‘A’ 2d U.S. Cord Artl’y, Lt., 1865. Albumen silver print, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Collection of Julia J. Norrell.The American Civil War was one of the first conflicts to be extensively documented by photography. The public had never before seen such powerful images of human ... Read More
Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos presents Kader Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2
The Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos presents Kader Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 an exhibition on view 28 January–4 February 2012. On the occasion of the Occupy Nigeria forum, CCA, Lagos has the pleasure of presenting a video work by the Algerian artist Kader Attia. A single screen projection, Attia’s Oil and Sugar #2 (2007) is an evocative four and half minute video work portraying the interplay of two raw materials: oil and sugar. Replete with allusions to ephemerality, destruction and ... Read More
La Criee Center for Contemporary Art presents Boris Mikhailov. Salt Lake
Until March 11, 2012, La Criée will be presenting the French premiere of the Salt Lake series by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov. Dating from 1986, this series of 50 photographs takes us back to Soviet-era Ukraine, on the edge of ruin, to a place where life’s simple pleasures were played out against the backdrop of a lake assailed by industrial pollution on every side.Boris Mikhailov, “Salt Lake” series, 1986. C-print, 60 x 84 cm, edition of 7. © Courtesy Galerie Suzanne ... Read More
Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros announces Christian Jankowski. Crying for the March of Humanity
The Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros presents Christian Jankowski. Crying for the March of Humanity an exhibition on view 8 February–8 April 2012. With the work of Christian Jankowski, Crying for the March of Humanity presents an innovative and complex analysis of the relationship between art and politics, a discourse that the SAPS has been dedicated to for the last three years. Jankowski addresses the power of Televisa—one of the largest Spanish-language broadcast companies—through the ... Read More
FRAGMENTED, a group show, opens February 5, 2012 at Hunterdon Art Museum
Clinton, NJ – Opening Sunday, February 5, 2012 at the Hunterdon Art Museum is an exhibition of work by four artists: Astrid Bowlby, Ben Butler, Sebastian Rug, and Christopher Skura. The show, titled Fragmented, explores how all four of the artists presented create art work that is the result of extremely labor intensive processes. The end result of the effort is art that is solid, yet fragile; if one piece or thread was moved or removed, the entire structure would collapse. The public ... Read More
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