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“Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding” to Open at the Morris Museum of Art
“Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding”, an exhibition of twenty-nine remarkable maritime drawings by self-taught African-American artist William O. Golding (1874–1943), opens to the public December 12, at the Morris Museum of Art. Shanghaied from the Savannah waterfront when he was eight years old, William O. Golding chronicled his travels world-wide through drawings that […]
Audubon Series Flourishes at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents John James Audubon’s “Precursors and Contemporaries”, the second in a two-part series. The exhibition is currently on view through February 13, 2010 in the Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Gallery. This exhibition explores natural history publications and begins with some of […]
Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum’s summer 2009 opening of its New American Wing, along with the concurrent presentation of three highly acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions—Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom; Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective; and The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion—generated $593 million in spending by regional, national, and foreign tourists to New York, […]
One of the Greatest of All Illuminated Manuscripts to be Exhibited at the The Morgan Library & Museum
“The Hours of Catherine of Cleves”, a fifteenth-century Dutch manuscript that is among the most beautiful and sophisticated illuminated works ever created, is the subject of a major exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, from January 22 through May 2, 2010. Titled “Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves”, the show includes […]
Miami Art Museum Names John Wetenhall Interim Director
The Board of Trustees of Miami Art Museum announced the appointment of John Wetenhall as the museum’s interim director while it undertakes a search for the next director of the institution. Wetenhall will officially start on January 4, 2010, and will oversee the day-to-day operations of the museum and planning for its new home in […]
