STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of t…
NEW YORK, NY.- Over 100 art museums across North America will offer free or reduced admission, special programs, or other initiatives as part of their celebrations of Art Museum Day on May 18, 2011. These museums-all members of the Association of Art …
EVANSTON, IL.- David Alan Robertson has announced that he will be stepping down as The Ellen Philips Katz Director of the Block Museum of Art effective Dec. 31, 2011. Robertson has served as the director of the Block Museum and lecturer in art history …
EVANSTON, IL.- David Alan Robertson has announced that he will be stepping down as The Ellen Philips Katz Director of the Block Museum of Art effective Dec. 31, 2011. Robertson has served as the director of the Block Museum and lecturer in art history …
NEW YORK, NY.- In response to the recent call to sell Jackson Pollock’s Mural from the collection of The University of Iowa Museum of Art, the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Association of Museums released the following joint…
NEW YORK, NY.- In response to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery’s removal of artist David Wojnarowicz’s film from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” the Association …
SALEM, MA.- Libraries, archives, and museums face similar challenges. Libraries and archives affiliated with art museums have a second layer of concerns to consider in determining how they best relate to their parent institution. The Peabody Essex Muse…
