A presentation, open through 23 January 2011, exploring the fascinating times in which Kees van Dongen lived and worked will be staged alongside the exhibition ‘All Eyes on Van Dongen’ in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. [Read More]
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The performances, video pieces, photographs and objects of Finnish artist Antti Laitinen (born 1975) choreograph, in humoristic and experimental ways, the desperate quest for identity in remote places. Time and again he arranges absurd situations, [Read More]
Washington, DC – The bizarre yet scientifically accurate composite heads painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593) will be exhibited together for the first time in the United States, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from [Read More]
The High Museum of Art recently transferred 21 works by 14 Georgia artists from its collection to The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). In addition, the High has transferred more than 700 [Read More]
The Nasher Museum of Art will hold a benefit gala on November 13, 2010, for the inaugural presentation of the Mary D.B.T. Semans Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, to Dr. Lawrence J. Wheeler [Read More]
The Fenimore Art Museum presents John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women, open through December 31, 2010. Divided into three thematic sections – Women of Fashion, Women of Mystery, and Women of Substance – [Read More]
The High Museum of Art recently established new academic affiliations with both The Lovett School and The Westminster Schools. The three-year collaborations allow for the sharing of resources between the High and the schools to [Read More]
On View in First U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Artist’s Composite Heads, September 19, 2010 through January 9, 2011 The National Gallery of Art has acquired the Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590), a rare [Read More]
The Board of Trustees announce the appointment of Dr. Michael W. Schantz as the Heckscher Museum of Art’s new Executive Director effective November 1. Michael has more than 25 years of experience as the Director [Read More]
Two Special Recognition winners also selected Artists will be honored at an awards ceremony and reception Thursday, October 21, at 6 pm in the Plestcheeff Auditorium at the Seattle Art Museum. SEATTLE – The Betty [Read More]
Rotation Features the World’s Earliest Polychrome Woodblock Prints Kansas City, MO – Visitors to the Chinese painting galleries at The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art will see rarely viewed 17th-century Chinese woodblock prints that are [Read More]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has appointed E. Carmen Ramos as its curator for Latino art. Ramos will be responsible for acquiring artworks for the museum’s permanent collection and producing a major exhibition and catalog [Read More]
Nearly 100 loaned works on view, first time on public display Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Latin American art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [Read More]
The Wallraf-Richartz Museum presents Drawn by Light. Camille Corot and his ‘Cliché-Verre’ Experiments, open through 24 October 2010. Literally meaning “glass picture”, cliché-verre was a popular method between 1850 and 1870 – not least among [Read More]
The Mulvane Art Museum invited Patrick Dougherty to design and build a site specific sculpture during November 2-20, 2009, on the Museum’s grounds on the campus of Washburn University. Dougherty, from Chapel Hill, NC, is [Read More]
The Phoenix Art Museum’s exhibition Cézanne and American Modernism closes on September 26, 2010. French master Paul Cézanne, one of the most recognizable names in art, is celebrated worldwide for his Post-Impressionist masterpieces. However, Cezanne’s [Read More]
‘Finally – a house made of steel and glass!’ This was the enthusiastic reaction of Hajo Rose (1910 – 1989) to the Bauhaus building in Dessau when he began his studies there in 1930. Rose [Read More]
Dulwich Picture Gallery presents the first major UK Rosa exhibition since 1973. Open through 28 November 2010. Salvator Rosa (1615 – 1673), Lucrezia as Poetry, c. 1641. Hartford (CT), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Oil [Read More]