CLEVELAND, OH (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art plans to offer more than two dozen European old master paintings as part of an auction in late January. The Plain Dealer reports it’s the largest sell-off from the museum’s collection in more than 50 yea…
Cleveland Art Museum to Auction European Paintings
CLEVELAND, OH (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art plans to offer more than two dozen European old master paintings as part of an auction in late January. The Plain Dealer reports it’s the largest sell-off from the museum’s collection in more than 50 yea…
Moore Acknowledges Valued Service of Departing Gallery Director & Launches National Search
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Moore College of Art & Design announces that Rochelle F. Levy Director & Chief Curator Lorie Mertes will step down as director of The Galleries at Moore in mid-February. Mertes, who has lead the Galleries with distinction over the la…
Hirshhorn Acquires Artworks by Dan Flavin, Bruce Conner, Michael Snow and Gabriel Orozco
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum has recently acquired important artworks in sculpture, film and photography that demonstrate the museum’s commitment to collecting key artists’ work in depth in the tradition of its founder, Joseph H. Hir…
The Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture to Have Terence Riley as Chief Curator
VENICE.-The Organizing Committee of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture announced in Venice that Terence Riley had been appointed as Chief Curator for its 2011 edition. Riley, an internationally recognized curator and architect w…
National Gallery of Canada Appoints Neo-Classical European Art Expert as Its Chief Curator
OTTAWA, ON.- The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced today the appointment of Paul Lang, an expert in neo-classical European Art, as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator. An accomplished scholar who holds a PhD in Art History from the Univ…
The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Latest Works Approved by the Collections Committee
CLEVELAND, OH.- – A rare portrait miniature by nineteenth-century British artist John Linnell, a boldly designed Op Art painting by Cleveland artist Edwin Mieczkowski and a fifteenth-century engraving of which only five exist are among the latest …
The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Latest Works Approved by the Collections Committee
CLEVELAND, OH.- – A rare portrait miniature by nineteenth-century British artist John Linnell, a boldly designed Op Art painting by Cleveland artist Edwin Mieczkowski and a fifteenth-century engraving of which only five exist are among the latest …
MoMA Presents Andy Warhol’s Influential Early Film-Based Works on a Large Scale
NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, on view at MoMA from December 19, 2010, to March 21, 2011, focuses on the artist’s cinematic portraits and nonnarrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol’s Screen Tests revea…
Pair of Paintings by Sir Peter Lely Reunited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery with New Acquisition
LONDON.- In time for its 2011 Bicentenary year, Dulwich Picture Gallery announced its acquisition of the portrait of Bartholomew Beale by Sir Peter Lely. The portrait is now reunited with its counterpart, Sir Peter Lely’s A Boy as a Shepherd, one…