ATLANTA,GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with Talladega College in Alabama, today embarked on a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s renowned Talladega murals. Commissioned in 1938 to both commemor…
High Announces Hale Woodruff’s Renowned Monumental Talladega Murals to Tour Nationally
ATLANTA,GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with Talladega College in Alabama, today embarked on a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s renowned Talladega murals. Commissioned in 1938 to both commemor…
New Faces Join Third Master Paintings Week to Be Held During July in London
LONDON.- Now in its third year and established as one of the key art events in the summer calendar, Master Paintings Week is a collaboration between twenty-three leading galleries and three auction houses and will take place from 1 to 8 July 2011. Thi…
New Faces Join Third Master Paintings Week to Be Held During July in London
LONDON.- Now in its third year and established as one of the key art events in the summer calendar, Master Paintings Week is a collaboration between twenty-three leading galleries and three auction houses and will take place from 1 to 8 July 2011. Thi…
Save America’s Treasures Grant Program Announces $14.3 Million in Awards
WASHINGTON, DC.- Today, the National Park Service (NPS) and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) jointly announced the awarding of $14.3 million in federal competitive Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grants. The grants are mad…
CAFAM Announces New Leadership MOCA’s Suzanne Isken Takes The Reins
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Amid its double exhibition opening Saturday, the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) announced Suzanne Isken, former Education Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), will assume the role of director at the museum February 14…
Major Commissions Awarded to Ground-Breaking Program for Disabled Artists
LONDON.- The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the UK Arts Councils and the British Council have awarded £820,000 funding to a new round of major commissions for Unlimited, the ground-breaking programme that celebrates arts and culture by disabled and de…
KUB Arena Presents Living Archives in Cooperation with the Van Abbemuseum
BREGENZ.- What is an archive? What is a collection? What are the relationships between the documents stored in archives and objects stored in collections concerned with memory, identity, history, and politics? What narrations are implied in them and to…
Retrospective of 40 Years of Richard Deacon’s Work Opens at the Sprengel Museum
HANOVER.- Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon is internationally recognized as one of contemporary sculpture’s most influential figures. He quickly emerged as an exceptional fabricator of forms, the creator of an artistic universe fluidly embr…
Astronomers Release the Largest Digital Color Image of the Sky Ever Made
SEATTLE, WA.- Today, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) is releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ever made, and its free to all. The image has been put together over the last decade from millions of 2.8-megapixel images, thus c…