Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fifth Avenue Renovation Plans

February 8, 2012 – 8:17 am |

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled plans for a comprehensive redesign of the four-block-long outdoor plaza that runs in front of its landmark Fifth Avenue façade, from 80th to 84th Streets in Manhattan. Rendering showing bird’s-eye view of proposed Fifth Avenue plaza redesign (image: OLIN) The plan also calls for the creation of new fountains—to replace the deteriorating ones that have been in use since they were built in the 1970s along with the existing plaza. The fountains will be ... Read More

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World Chess Hall of Fame Presents Chess Masterpieces. Highlights from the Dr. George and Vivian Dean Collection

December 7, 2011 – 7:52 am |

The World Chess Hall of Fame presents Chess Masterpieces. Highlights from the Dr. George and Vivian Dean Collection an exhibition on view through February 12, 2012. Chess Masterpieces: Highlights from the Dr. George and Vivian Dean Collection celebrates the Deans’ 50th year of collecting together and uses outstanding selected works to trace the development of the game of chess and the design of fine chess sets from the tenth to the early twentieth century. Sets come from Austria, Cambodia, China, England, ... Read More

Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) Holds Meeting of its Inclusive Design Advisory Council (IDAC)

December 7, 2011 – 7:50 am |

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) recently held the first meeting of its Inclusive Design Advisory Council (IDAC) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This council, made up of eight experts, advisors and activists in the field of disability rights, will assist the CMHR in providing visitors with a universally inclusive and satisfying experience, regardless of age or ability. The CMHR is striving to set a new benchmark for museum accessibility, incorporating inclusive design into all aspects of its exhibits, ... Read More

Getty Museum Acquires Late Medieval German Sculpture of St. John the Baptist

December 7, 2011 – 7:49 am |

The Getty Museum announced that it made a successful bid at auction for an extraordinary rare sculpture of St. John the Baptist carved in limewood by the accomplished Master of the Harburger Altar in about 1515. The piece was purchased at Sotheby’s in London on December 6, 2011. Saint John the Baptist, about 1515. The Master of the Harburger Altar (active around 1515 ). Painted and carved limewood. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The sculpture, nearly 60 inches tall, depicts St. John the Baptist ... Read More

Academy Art Museum Presents Andre Kertesz. On Reading

December 7, 2011 – 7:47 am |

The Academy Art Museum presents Andre Kertesz. On Reading on view through JANUARY 15, 2012. Henri Cartier-Bresson once said of himself, Robert Capa, and Brassaï, that, “Whatever we have done, Kertész did first.” He was referring to the legendary Hungarian photographer André Kertész, a prominent member of Cartier-Bresson’s circle in 1920s Paris. Kertész’s influence continued well into the 1970s, affecting another generation that included Lisette Model, Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, ... Read More

Stsdel Museum Acquires Portrait of Pope Julius II by Raphael and his Workshop

December 7, 2011 – 7:41 am |

The portrait of Pope Julius II is one of Raphael’s most famous works. It was in Rome between June 1511 and March 1512 that the artist executed his likeness of this highly art-minded – but also extremely strong-willed and irascible – pope. It shows the bearded pope in a three-quarter view, life-size, sitting in an armchair. The portrait has come down to us in several versions, of which the most well-known is in the holdings of the National Gallery in London, and another is in those of the Uffizi in ... Read More

The Royal Collection and BBC Radio 4 Announce The Art of Monarchy

December 7, 2011 – 7:39 am |

The Royal Collection is collaborating with BBC Radio 4 to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. A new eight-part series, The Art of Monarchy, will be broadcast from February. Presented by BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz, the programmes illuminate the long history of the Monarchy through the works of art that Kings and Queens have acquired. Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Queen Victoria, 1843 (detail). Photo: The Royal Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Travelling from Balmoral Castle in ... Read More

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Presents The Utopian Impulse. Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area

December 7, 2011 – 7:37 am |

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area from March 31 through July 29, 2012. The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, the first exhibition to consider Fuller’s local design legacy. The presentation will feature some 65 works, including prints, drawings, photographs, documentary video, books, models, and ephemera representing some of Fuller’s most iconic projects alongside those by Bay Area designers inspired by his ... Read More

eva International Biennial of Visual Art Limerick City Ireland

December 7, 2011 – 7:35 am |

eva International (formerly ev+a) announce that the 2012 biennial will be curated by Annie Fletcher, Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and tutor at De Appel, Amsterdam. An international open call for proposals launches today with the deadline for submissions: 31 January 2012. Please see www.eva.ie/open-call or contact info@eva.ie for further information. Event dates: 19 May–12 August 2012. Luc Deleu, “Construction X”, 1994. Containers, 610 x 610 x 180 cm. Documentation of ... Read More

Academy Art Museum Upcoming Events

December 7, 2011 – 7:32 am |

André Kertész: On Reading Through January 15, 2012 Lecture: Uncommon Images, Sahm Doherty-Sefton: January 11, 2012, 6:30pm Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD André Kertész: On Reading is a series of photographs made by legendary Hungarian photographer André Kertész (1894–1985) in Hungary, France, and the United States over a 50-year period. The exhibition illustrates Kertész’s penchant for the poetry and choreography of life in public and also private moments at home, examining the power of reading as a ... Read More

Melbourne Museum Presents Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic

December 7, 2011 – 7:28 am |

The Melbourne Museum in Victoria presents Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic an exhibition on view until 12 Feb 2012 Mundukul (Snake) story and Yirwarra (Fish Trap) 1942 Artist: Mundukul Marawili Arnhem Land paintings and objects from the Donald Thomson Collection. This exhibition showcases the extraordinary painted works collected from Arnhem Land during the 1930s and 1940s by the Melbourne-based anthropologist, the late Professor Donald Thomson (1901-1970). Including bark paintings and objects decorated with ... Read More