BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired, by purchase from the London Gallery Robilant + Voena, Agostino Brunias’s (1730-1796) painting Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, (circa 1764-96), a portrait of the eight…
Crocker Art Museum Announces a Series of Exhibitions for Its Summer of Impressionism
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will present a series of exhibitions this summer showcasing the journey of Impressionism from France to the U.S. With a strong emphasis on landscape paintings, the exhibitions collectively feature works by renow…
Art Institute Announces Major Long-Term Loan of Ancient Near Eastern Statuette
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced a major long-term loan of a work of great significance: a copper statue called Striding Horned Figure (Shaman/Demon) believed to have been made 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the third millennium B….
Art Institute Announces Major Long-Term Loan of Ancient Near Eastern Statuette
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced a major long-term loan of a work of great significance: a copper statue called Striding Horned Figure (Shaman/Demon) believed to have been made 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the third millennium B….
New Orleans Museum of Art Celebrates First Century with Exhibition from Its Collection
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- When the New Orleans Museum of Art opened its doors 100 years ago thanks to a $150,000 donation offered by a local businessman to build a “temple of art for rich and poor alike,” it owned only 11 pictures and a small collection of oth…
The Work of Alex Katz Travels to North Wales as Part of 2010 Artist Rooms Tour
LLANDUDNO.- The work of influential contemporary American painter, Alex Katz, comes to North Wales as part of the 2010 national tour of ARTIST ROOMS, a new collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. The e…
Study Photographs and Paintings by Norman Rockwell at the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, NY.-To create many of his iconic, quintessentially American paintings, most of which served as magazine covers, Norman Rockwell worked from carefully staged study photographs that are on view for the first time, alongside his paintings, drawi…
Architect Richard Meier: "It’s Easier to Buy an Apartment in Brooklyn than in Tel Aviv"
TEL AVIV (PR WEB).- Jewish-American architect, Richard Meier arrived today for a visit to Israel in order to promote “Meier on Rothschild,” a residential project that he designed. The new building is at the junction of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby …
Architect Richard Meier: "It’s Easier to Buy an Apartment in Brooklyn than in Tel Aviv"
TEL AVIV (PR WEB).- Jewish-American architect, Richard Meier arrived today for a visit to Israel in order to promote “Meier on Rothschild,” a residential project that he designed. The new building is at the junction of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby …
Brooklyn Museum Inaugurates Purchase Fund for Acquisition of pre-1945 African American Art
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum is inaugurating a new collecting initiative that will focus on the acquisition of works by African American artists that were created between the mid-nineteenth century and 1945. In the first three years, the Museum i…