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…
Peabody Essex Museum to Host Art Museum Libraries Symposium
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…
Art Institute of Chicago Opens Henri Cartier-Bresson Retrospective
CHICAGO, IL.- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, and influential figures in the history of photography. His celebrated work of the early 1930s helped to define the artistic potential of modern photography;…
First U.S. Exhibition for Cuban Painter Raúl Martínez at Magnan Metz Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Magnan Metz Gallery presents for the first time in the United States an exhibition of personal work by Cuban painter Raúl Martínez (Ciego de Avila, 1927- Havana, 1995), considered one of the most influential artists in Cuba’s hist…
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Releases Design for New Building
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) today released the design for its new facility, following its presentation and approval at a meeting of the City Planning Commission. The project is designed by the internationally acclaim…
ICA/Boston Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Boston Foundation
BOSTON, MA.- The Institute of Contemporary
Art/Boston will receive a $300,000 grant from the Boston Foundation in
support
of the museum’s general operations. The multi-year grant helps ensure
the ICA’s
ability to provide high-quality exh…
ICA/Boston Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Boston Foundation
BOSTON, MA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston will receive a $300,000 grant from the Boston Foundation in support of the museum’s general operations. The multi-year grant helps ensure the ICA’s ability to provide high-quality exhibiti…
Museum of London Digs Up Shakespeare’s First Theatre… Take Two
LONDON.- Museum of London Archaeology has resumed excavations on the site of Shakespeare’s first purpose-built theatre. The Tower Theatre Company is set to build a new theatre where the famous Elizabethan playhouse stood in the late 16th century. …
Metropolitan Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001
NEW YORK, NY.- Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five mi…
NEA Announces New Report on How Americans Use Electronic Media to Participate in the Arts
WASHINGTON, DC.- When compared with non-media participants, Americans who participate in the arts through technology and electronic media – using the Internet, television, radio, computers, and handheld devices – are nearly three times more l…