Community Provides Funding to Give Works a Permanent Home at the Museum Denver, Colo. – Spurred by the enthusiastic response of the Denver community, and building on its commitment to expand its collection with new [Read More]
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The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the July 11, 2010 closing of Currents 104: Bruce Yonemoto. Inspired by the ways in which visual culture mediates our understanding of history, politics and race, Yonemoto explores two [Read More]
Charleston, SC – The Gibbes Museum of Art will present two new exhibitions from September 3 through December 5, 2010. Face Lift, organized by the Gibbes and on view in the Main Gallery, offers a [Read More]
As part of its 90th Anniversary Celebration, The Heckscher Museum of Art is presenting its inaugural Long Island Biennial. Open July 31 – September 26, 2010. This juried exhibition features 45 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery is appealing for support to acquire William Hoare’s compelling and moving portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1733), thus saving from export Britain’s earliest known portrait of a black African Muslim and [Read More]
Los Angeles—The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner’s masterpiece painting Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino (1838-39). The auction took place at Sotheby’s in London [Read More]
The Paintings (with Us in the Nature) by Gilbert & George is on display through 21.11.2010, in the large exhibition space in the Quist wing. This unusual “Sculpture” from 1971 consists of 6 huge painted [Read More]
This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artists Clive Head and Ben Johnson to display their work in two consecutive exhibitions in [Read More]
The Princeton University Art Museum presents Starburst open July 10, 2010 – September 26, 2010. Starburst offers the first historical survey of what critics of the 1970s called “the new color photography,” an informal and [Read More]
The New Museum presents “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Open 7/7/10 – 10/3/10. Working [Read More]
Norman Rockwell Museum announces an ongoing series of children’s art workshops to be held at the Museum during the months of July and August. Summer Sketch Club Tuesdays, July and August, 10 a.m. to 12 [Read More]
A Catholic convent and college in Los Angeles might seem an unlikely breeding ground for Pop Art and social commentary. However, for nearly three decades, Sister Mary Corita—a Catholic nun, teacher, and inspiration to such [Read More]
Stockbridge, MA – Norman Rockwell Museum, Time Warner, and Cartoon Network are teaming up to bring the brand new MOVE IT MOVEMENT tour to Norman Rockwell Museum on Friday, July 9, from 11 a.m. to [Read More]
Co-organised by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, La Caja Madrid and the Musée Marmottan Monet, the exhibition Monet and abstraction is presented at the Musée Marmottan Monet from 17 June to 26 September 2010. Monet’s [Read More]
For almost forty years, world-renowned jeweler Arline Fisch has pioneered the application of textile techniques in the creation of jewelry, but she has rarely forayed outside this realm. Creatures from the Deep, originally commissioned by [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago announces a landmark presentation of one of the country’s leading private collections of contemporary art, Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, on view through September 19, [Read More]
“I was out walking the dear dog and I saw 500 things that made me want to make art.” – Maira Kalman San Francisco, CA – This summer, the Contemporary Jewish Museum presents Maira Kalman: [Read More]
Bellevue, WA – Bellevue Arts Museum announced the winners of the Carol Duke Artist Awards of Excellence sponsored by Tiffany & Co. The prestigious award is given every year to the top ten artists of [Read More]