The National Gallery of Art reopens its galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building, to the public on January 28, 2012. Edouard Manet, The Railway, 1873, oil on canvas National Gallery of [Read More]
Daily Archives: January 14, 2012
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The National Gallery of Art will celebrate the reopening of its galleries devoted to 19th-century French impressionist and post-impressionist painting with an array of public programs throughout the opening weekend of January 28–29, 2012, and [Read More]
The James A. Michener Art Museum presents Mavis Smith. Hidden Realities an exhibition on view January 14-May 20, 2012. Reception: February 3, 6-7:30 p.m. Mavis Smith Night Pool, 2009, Egg tempera on panel. The paintings [Read More]
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents The Past Still Present: Photographs by David Halliday, on view January 19, 2012 through April 8, 2012. A master of light, New Orleans photographer David Halliday, produces lush [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents Question Bridge: Black Males on view January 13–June 3, 2012. Chris Johnson (American, b. 1948) and Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976), with Kamal Sinclair (American, b. 1976) and Bayeté Ross [Read More]
The Museum of Discovery in Little Rock reopens Saturday following a near year-long $9.2 million renovation effort that’s added three new galleries containing 85 interactive exhibits for all ages, reports Arkansasbusiness.com “Gov. Mike Beebe, Little [Read More]
The Foundling Museum in London presents Quentin Blake. As large as life an exhibition on view 12 January 2012 – 15 April 2012. Quentin Blake is one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well [Read More]
The Chairperson and Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art announced the appointment of Sarah Glennie, currently Director of the Irish Film Institute, as the new Director of IMMA, where she previously held the [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has acquired an undisputed masterpiece for the new arrangement of the museum’s exhibits. The object in question is a unique lifelike Flemish terracotta bust of Mary in mourning (ca. 1500-1510), called Our Lady [Read More]
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents The Created World of Enrique Alferez, on view January 19, 2012 through April 2, 2012. Jimmy Descant (a.k.a. “the Rocketman”) is an assemblage artist known primarily for his [Read More]
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents Jimmy Descant: The Shape of Louisiana Commenting on the Shape of Louisiana, open January 19, 2012 through April 8, 2012. Jimmy Descant The La. Family-Farm Assemblage. Jimmy Descant [Read More]
Research recently revealed that the Rijksmuseum’s monumental bronze statue of Shiva was cast in solid bronze. The thousand-year-old temple statue was X-rayed, along with the lorry transporting it, in the most powerful X-ray tunnel for [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Chris Burden. Metropolis II, on view from January 14, 2012. Chris Burden, Metropolis II, 2010, long-term loan courtesy of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation, © Chris [Read More]