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]
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]
SEATTLE – The public is invited to bring aerospace-related antiques and curiosities to the Museum to have them identified and described by aerospace experts during a new event called Show and Tell Takes Flight. This [Read More]
Under the patronage of Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, Salim Wardy, on Wednesday, May 11th, the Johnny R. Saade Family, known for its legacy in wine making, announced the creation and imminent launching of the Middle [Read More]
Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans The Gibbes Museum of Art presents In Search of Julien Hudson an exhibition on view July 22 – October 16, 2011. This exhibition is the first [Read More]
The High Museum of Art has appointed Louise Sams the new chairwoman of its board of directors. Sams has served on the High’s board for eight years and succeeds board chairman James L. Henderson, III, [Read More]
In 2012, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will present a major survey of masterworks by the most inventive and influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, [Read More]
LWL – Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte presents an exhibition of work by Angus Fairhurst on view through 4 September 2011. Angus Fairhurst (1966–2008) was one of the most influential members of the group of [Read More]
The Gibbes Museum of Art presents The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection,on view July 22 – October 16, 2011. This exhibition showcases paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the foremost [Read More]
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announce the honorees to be recognized at its 2011 Hadrian Award Gala, which will be held at The Plaza, in New York City, on October 27. This year’s Hadrian Award [Read More]
Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912 asserts the importance of Nordic art—brought to U.S. by ASF in that year—as a model for North American artists. The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) presents Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is [Read More]