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
The Jewish Museum presents An Artist Remembers: Hanukkah Lamps Selected by Maurice Sendak from December 2, 2011 through January 29, 2012. This exhibition features thirty-three Hanukkah lamps of varied eras and styles, chosen by renowned author and illustrator Maurice Sendak from The Jewish Museum’s extensive collection. This highly personal selection of lamps, many never before exhibited, echoes the quality of line and depth of emotion that define Sendak’s work. Hanukkah begins at sundown on Tuesday, ... Read More
The Alberta Aviation Museum has located an appropriate F-104 Starfighter (2) seater and is moving forward with acquiring the aircraft for restoration and exhibit. This is one of the few remaining available and is identical to the (2) seat version used in the Royal Canadian Air force and Canadian Armed Forces. The aircraft is complete (less armaments) right through radios, radar to the engine and its systems. The broker has agreed to hold the aircraft till December 14th, 2011 so we are in a race to raise the ... Read More
The Museo del Prado presents some of the most important restoration projects that it has undertaken this year, sponsored by Fundación Iberdrola in its capacity as “Protector Member” of the Restoration Programme. The three restoration projects presented today also relate to the re-hang of the Museum’s collections, a programme entitled The Collection: The Second Expansion Plan. The programme’s aims include equipping the works on display with the museological resources necessary for their optimum ... Read More
The San Diego Museum of Art has acquired an important oil painting of Don Luis de Borbón by Anton Raphael Mengs . Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of Don Luis de Borbón, 1650-51. Mengs (1728–1779) was famous throughout Europe during his lifetime. During the 1750s in Rome, he was the only real rival to the great portraitist Pompeo Batoni. He was also closely associated with the archaeologist and writer Johann Joseph Winckelmann, and their research into Greek art (and the art of the then-newly-rediscovered ... Read More
The Museo del Prado announced a new donation in the form of a small exhibition of twelve works shown alongside View of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony at the Arch of Trajan in Benevento, an architectural landscape executed in 1759 by the set painter and vedutista Antonio Joli (Modena, 1700 – Naples, 1777). View of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony at the Arch of Trajan in Benevento. Antonio Joli. Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 131 cm. Ca. 1759. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado The exhibition includes three paintings by the ... Read More
The Toledo Museum of Art challenges us to look at the world from new perspectives through its Small Worlds exhibition on view through March 25, 2012. Lori Nix (American, born 1969), Library from The City series. Chromogenic print, 2006. Courtesy of the artist © Lori Nix Five contemporary artists in the exhibition offer engaging works that create an intimate space or environment or show scenes which are familiar but perhaps slightly askew. Intricate and intriguing, the drawings, relief paintings, photography and ... Read More
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) is to open new Indian and Southeast Asian galleries on December 15. Krishna Celebrates Holi with Radha and the Gopis. Attributed to: Nihal Chand (Indian, active in Kishangarh in the mid 18th century) Indian, Rajasthani, about 1750–60. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Keith McLeod Fund. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Highlights include important Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain works, such as a rare 5th-century painted fragment featuring ... Read More
The Museo del Prado presents “The Hermitage in the Prado” an exhibition on view until to 25 March 2012. Comprising 179 works from the Hermitage’s celebrated collections of paintings, drawings and sculptures in addition to a large and remarkable groups of archaeological items, examples of the decorative arts, furniture and court dress, The Hermitage in the Prado will be open every day of the week for an exceptional four-and-a-half months. It thus marks the conclusion of a unique exchange of ... Read More
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Experiments in Abstraction. Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980 an exhibition on view through February 19, 2012. Oskar Fischinger (born in Germany, 1900-1967), Balls, #16, Oil on canvas, 1964, 2009:49 Experiments in Abstraction: Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980, addresses a generation of California-based artists who explored the possibilities of abstraction. In the years following World War II, a distinctive style of art, identified as Hard-Edge painting, was ... Read More
The Museum of the Coastal Bend at Victoria College presents the exhibition, “Harold Nichols: A Texas State of Mind,” beginning Thursday, Dec. 1 and continuing through Thursday, Dec. 15. The exhibition includes sculpture, paintings and watercolor drawings by this accomplished Victoria artist. Harold Nichols Riding Herd A native of West Texas, Nichols took up residence in Victoria early in his first career as a teacher. He quickly moved up from the position of instructor of Business Administration at Victoria ... Read More
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