NEW YORK, NY.- Claudia Gould, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director of The Jewish Museum, announced that Ellen Salpeter has been named the institution’s new Deputy Director for External Affairs, overseeing development, special events, and marketing an…
Grammy Museum to premier first large-scale exhibition exploring Los Angeles music history
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, The Grammy Museum, in conjunction with the Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, will unveil its latest special exhibit, Trouble In Paradise: Music and Los Angeles, 1945…
President Barack Obama to deliver remarks at Smithsonian groundbreaking on live webcast
WASHINGTON.- President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will celebrate the groundbreaking for a new national museum showcasing black life, art and history on the National Mall. The Smithsonian Institution announced that Obama will speak a…
Exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg’s "boundary-busting art" on view at Grand Rapids Art Museum
GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Grand Rapids Art Museum is hosting three distinct exhibitions celebrating the work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, beginning this February, providing a rich introduction to the defining aspects of Rauschenberg’s art. Rauschen…
Comprehensive retrospective of American artist George Condo’s work opens at Schirn Kunsthalle
FRANKFURT.- Ironic, provocative, witty—since his beginnings in New York’s East Village in the early 1980s American artist George Condo has produced a distinctive body of work. His paintings, characterized by mordant humor, surrealist-tinged a…
Discovering painter Agnes Martin’s artistic roots at the Harwood Museum of Art
TAOS (AP).- A Taos museum is about to open an exhibit by an abstract painter who was a quiet fixture of the local community but who was well-known in the art world for her seemingly simple and muted grid paintings. “Agnes Martin: Before the Grid” opens…
Discovering painter Agnes Martin’s artistic roots at the Harwood Museum of Art
TAOS (AP).- A Taos museum is about to open an exhibit by an abstract painter who was a quiet fixture of the local community but who was well-known in the art world for her seemingly simple and muted grid paintings. “Agnes Martin: Before the Grid” opens…
Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ to sell at Sotheby’s in New York; may fetch $80 million
NEW YORK (AP).- One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream” will be sold this spring in New York, Sotheby’s auction house announced Tuesday. Sotheby’s estimates that the work, which has become a modern icon of human anxiety, will se…
Fundacion Mapfre presents exhibitions of the work of Odilon Redon and Lewis Hine
MADRID.- Fundacion Mapfre has opened the Odilon Redon and Lewis Hine exhibitions, which can be visited at the Recoletos Rooms (Paseo de Recoletos 23, Madrid) until 29 April. The Odilon Redon (Bordeaux, 1840 – Paris, 1916) exhibition, produced in collab…
On view for the first time since restoration, ‘Mona Lisa’ copy draws crowds at the Prado
MADRID.- Crowds are gathering at Madrid’s Prado Museum to view a copy of the “Mona Lisa” for the first time since a restoration revealed it was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s apprentices as he worked on the original. The paintin…