ROCHESTER, NY (AP).- What should a photographer shoot when he’s entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with t…
National Portrait Gallery Announces Exhibition by Dmitri Kasterine
LONDON.- Photographs by Dmitri Kasterine will be on display for the first time in the United Kingdom at the National Portrait Gallery. Since the early 1960s Kasterine has photographed some of the most eminent cultural figures of the twentieth century. …
National Portrait Gallery Announces Exhibition of Photographs by Dmitri Kasterine
LONDON.- Photographs by Dmitri Kasterine will be on display for the first time in the United Kingdom at the National Portrait Gallery. Since the early 1960s Kasterine has photographed some of the most eminent cultural figures of the twentieth century. …
Sam Francis Foundation Gifts Over 500 Prints to Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Sam Francis Foundation has donated over 500 prints to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Sam Francis (1923–1994) was an American painter and printmaker who used a variety of colors and techniques to experiment with both surrealism and …
Walker Art Center Invites Audience to Select Artworks for Exhibition
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center’s audience will share the spotlight with the museum’s curators when they jointly select the artworks for the upcoming exhibition 50/50: Audience and Experts Curate the Paper Collection. Visit the kiosk …
First Comprehensive U.S. Museum Survey of Dennis Hopper Opens at MOCA
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Dennis Hopper Double Standard, the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s artistic career to be mounted by a North American museum, July 11 through Se…
Sister Corita’s Signature Work at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
ANN ARBOR, MI.- 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 luminari…
Recent Gifts from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation on View at the Snite Museum of Art
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art presents the exhibition Recent Gifts from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation on view from July 4 through August 15, 2010. This exhibition features a small selection of paintings, lithographs, and drawings by noted Cu…
Contemporary Photography and Video Featured at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography will be explored in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography. Drawn almost entirely from the M…
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Announces New Work by Lawrence Weiner
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announces the acquisition of SCATTERED MATTER BROUGHT TO A KNOWN DENSITY WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD / CUSPED (2007) by American artist Lawrence Weiner (b. New York, 1942) as a gift to the museum’s colle…