The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents Modern Masters: New Paintings by Sean Scully and John Walker, on view UL 23, 2011– NOV 27, 2011. This exhibition features monumental paintings by two of today’s [Read More]
Daily Archives: July 24, 2011
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Promised gift from Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz makes the Museum a destination for outsider art Approximately 190 works by self-taught artists have become promised gifts to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from Jill and Sheldon [Read More]
The Life and Death of Buildings, opening July 23, 2011 and on view through November 6, 2011, explores the unique relationship uniting architecture, photography and time. Architecture inhabits and embodies time; whether months or centuries [Read More]
The UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts present The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photograph & The Legacy Project, on view July 16, 2011 – October 08, 2011. Image, UCR Sweeney [Read More]
A major collection of 31 drawings and two sculptures by the architect, artist, designer, poet, and philosopher Frederick Kiesler (American, born Austria-Prussia 1890–1965) has been donated to the Museum by Ronnie L. and John E. [Read More]
The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired an early, rare and important Chimú painted textile panel from the Late Intermediate Period (about A.D. 1200-1290). The large, unusually well-preserved cotton fragment is one section of the [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired Tanis, one of the best-known paintings by Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958), a leading Pennsylvania Impressionist and one of the most significant artists working in Philadelphia in the first [Read More]
The Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress takes centre-stage in the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace during the annual Summer Opening, 23 July – 3 October. Designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, the wedding dress is [Read More]