HICKORY CORNERS, MICH. (AP).- A museum celebrating Ford Motor Co.’s Model A is being planned for southern Michigan that will be housed in a building designed to resemble one of the automaker’s old dealerships. Organizers hope to break ground next summe…
Ford’s Model A: Michigan Museum Plans to Break Ground on New Museum Next Year
HICKORY CORNERS, MICH. (AP).- A museum celebrating Ford Motor Co.’s Model A is being planned for southern Michigan that will be housed in a building designed to resemble one of the automaker’s old dealerships. Organizers hope to break ground next summe…
LACMA Announces First Ever Thematic Exhibition of Renowned American Sculptor David Smith
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will present David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, the first major thematic exhibition devoted to the renowned twentieth-century American sculptor David Smith (1906-65), on view April 3 through J…
Pot o’ Gold: Family’s Old Vase Fetches $83 Million
LONDON (AP).- It was just an old Chinese vase that had been in the family for 80 years. It turned out to be much more. When the intricately painted 18th-century piece went on the block at Bainbridges, a small suburban London auction house, it sold for…
First N.Y. Exhibition of a Founder of Soviet Photo Reportage at Nailya Alexander Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery presents Arkady Shaikhet: Selected Photographs 1920s-1930s, the first New York exhibition of one of the founders of Soviet photo reportage. Shaikhet [pronounced shai-HET] was an innovator, who helped…
First New York Exhibition of One of the Founders of Soviet Photo Reportage at Nailya Alexander Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery presents Arkady Shaikhet: Selected Photographs 1920s-1930s, the first New York exhibition of one of the founders of Soviet photo reportage. Shaikhet [pronounced shai-HET] was an innovator, who helped…
First New York Exhibition of One of the Founders of Soviet Photo Reportage at Nailya Alexander Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery presents Arkady Shaikhet: Selected Photographs 1920s-1930s, the first New York exhibition of one of the founders of Soviet photo reportage. Shaikhet [pronounced shai-HET] was an innovator, who helped…
First New York City Museum Exhibition in All Media at American Folk Art Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (19101983) was one of the most complex and multifaceted self-taught artists in the United States. Over a fifty-year period, between the late 1930s until his death in 1983, Von Bruenchenhein produced expans…
MoMA to Present the Most Extensive Exhibition of Weimar Cinema Ever Mounted in the U.S.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, in association with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden and in cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, presents Weimar Cinema, 19191933: Daydreams and Nightmares, the most comp…
Westphalian Expressionism Subject of Exhibition that Opened Today at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
BIELEFELD.- In 1902, when Karl Ernst Osthaus founded the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, opening up his collection to the public, modernism moved into Westphalia. With it arose Westphalian Expressionism, which, by the 1930s, had established a style all its o…