The Portland Museum of Art has received a painting by internationally known artist Jenny Holzer from contemporary art collector Kevin Longe. The painting entitled Left Hand is currently on view in the Museum’s third floor [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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The Valencian Institute for Modern Art presents Avant-garde Photography in Cuba, an exhibition on view Feb 14 – May 06, 2012. Ricardo Repilado, Cara al sol, 1954, Valencian Institute for Modern Art This exhibition highlights [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired one of only 16 known casts of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Abraham Lincoln, the Man (Standing Lincoln), a rare, authorized reduction of the large bronze monument that the sculptor originally [Read More]
The Palace of Versailles presents Napoleon’s Wars. Louis François Lejeune, general and painter in the Africa and Crimea rooms, an exhibition on view from 14 February to 13 May 2012. The soldier, spy, painter and [Read More]
Over the course of fifty years—from the 1950s until his death in 2010 at the age of eighty-one—former Frick Collection Director Charles A. Ryskamp (1928–2010) assembled an extraordinary personal trove of European drawings. On view [Read More]
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and former director of the Kimbell Art Museum to take the helm of the Getty Museum on September 1 James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust [Read More]
Organizations will leverage capabilities Cincinnati— The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Cincinnati Museum Center today announced a visionary plan to take steps to join together in a united corporate structure, with the Cincinnati Museum [Read More]
A model of the tug Torrent has recently been restored and will be unveiled to the public as part of the new Push and Pull: Life on Chesapeake Tugboats exhibit, opening at the Chesapeake Bay [Read More]
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Leah Chase. Paintings by Gustave Blache III, an exhibition in honor of Leah Chase’s upcoming 90th birthday, on view from April 24rd until September 9th. An opening party [Read More]
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art, and Witte Museum, received a bequest of $800,000 per institution from the estate of Frances and Louis Wagner for an endowment to provide annual support for [Read More]
The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Henry Ossawa Tanner. Modern Spirit, an exhibition on view May 26, 2012 – September 09, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner, Cincinnati Art Museum Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,this [Read More]
The me Collectors Room Berlin presents Gerhard Richter – Editions 1965–2011, an exhibition on view 12.02.2012 to 13.05.2012. Gerhard Richter has secured an international reputation as one of the most important and successful German artists [Read More]
The Cincinnati Art Museum announces The Marjorie Schiele Prize. The triennial award honors the work and legacy of Marjorie Schiele, a Cincinnati artist whose generous bequest established it. September 29, 2012 – December 09, 2012. [Read More]
The Currier Museum of Art presents A New Vision. Modernist Photography, an exhibition on view through May 13, 2012 This exhibition explores the critical and dynamic role photography played in the development of the Modern [Read More]
The El Museo del Barrio in New York presents TESTIMONIOS. 100 Years of Popular Expression, an exhibition on view through May 6, 2012. Ejlat Feuer, Cataño, East 110th Street, East Harlem, Manhattan, 1966, C-print, 29 [Read More]
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum presents Chagall, an exhibition on view from 14 February to 20 May 2012. Marc Chagall The Blue Circus (Le cirque bleu) 1950-52 Oil on linen canvas. 232.5 x 175.8 cm. Centre Pompidou, [Read More]
The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Monet in Giverny. Landscapes of Reflection, an exhibition on view May 13, 2012. Claude Monet, Water Lilies, ca. 1916-19, oil on canvas, 51 1/8 x 78 7/8 in. (129.9 x [Read More]
The National Museum Cardiff presents John Piper. The Mountains of Wales – Paintings and Drawings from a Private Collection, an exhibition on view 11 Feb–13 May, 2012. John Piper, The Rise of the Dovey, 1943-44, [Read More]