PITTSBURGH, PA.- Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, has named a three-person team of curators to organize the 56th Carnegie International, which is scheduled to open in October 2013. The team will comprise curato…
Hirshhorn to Present Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective
WASHINGTON.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary medium: p…
Museum of Modern Art Celebrates Pioneering Filmmaker Ida Lupino
NEW YORK, NY.- Ida Lupino: Mother Directs, a comprehensive selection of films by actress and filmmaker Ida Lupino (American, b. Great Britain, 1918–1995) runs August 26 through September 20, 2010, at The Museum of Modern Art, presenting select fil…
Chicagoland Artists Sought for Major New Competition
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago Loop Alliance and Chicago Artists’ Coalition will transform the Loop into an interactive, multi-venue public art exhibition with the inaugural Art Loop Open, October 15 – 29, 2010, and Chicagoland’s diverse and tale…
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 …
New Personnel and New Positions at the Gibbes Museum of Art
CHARLESTON, SC.- For fiscal year 2010/2011, the Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce two new hires and several staff promotions. On June 29, Lasley Poe Steever joined the museum in the newly created position of Program and Events Manager. Meredi…
Royal Ontario Museum Acquires World’s Largest Mass of Rare Meteorite
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has acquired the world’s largest piece of the Springwater pallasite, a rare and scientifically important meteorite that was first discovered near Springwater, Saskatchewan in 1931. The new discovery of the …
Lynette Roth Appointed as Harvard Art Museums’ Associate Curator
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disci…
Early Diego Velázquez Masterpiece Identified at Yale University
NEW HAVEN, CT.- Based on the research of John Marciari, currently Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art and formerly the Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University…
Ringo Starr’s Gold Drum to Go on View at Met Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 7, Ringo Starr’s 70th birthday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will inaugurate a special display of his gold-plated snare drum that will remain on view to the public through December 2010 in the Museum’s second-floor Musical Inst…