LONDON.- Edwin Davies OBE has donated one of the world’s finest collections of Japanese cloisonné enamels to the V&A. Thanks to his significant gift, the V&A is now able to show the most wide-ranging selection of cloisonné masterpieces existing …
Selections from the Guggenheim Collections at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
BILBAO.- From June 14, 2011, to January 8, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is hosting Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections. The exhibition investigates major trends in U.S. and European art in a singular …
The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection at the Newark Public Library
NEWARK, NJ.- Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult when collecting art such as fine prints, portfolios and artists’ books. Libraries have modest acquisition budgets (if any at all) and can never acquire …
A Lifetime of Giving: The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection at the Newark Public Library
NEWARK, NJ.- Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult when collecting art such as fine prints, portfolios and artists’ books. Libraries have modest acquisition budgets (if any at all) and can never acquire the…
The Yale Centre for British Art Goes On-line With a Major Assciated Exhibition
New Haven, CT.- Earlier this year, the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom, made its extraordinary holdings available through a new online catalogu…
A Lifetime of Giving: The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection at the Newark Public Library
NEWARK, NJ.- Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult when collecting art such as fine prints, portfolios and artists’ books. Libraries have modest acquisition budgets (if any at all) and can never acquire the…
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Explores a Rarely Examined Side of Pissarro
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute presents a new exploration of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro this summer in Pissarro’s People, the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s personal ties and social ideas. Bringin…
John Waters Takes Over Walker Galleries as Absentee Landlord
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Pop culture provocateur John Waters brings his exuberant impudence to the Walker Art Center’s galleries this summer as curator of the exhibition Absentee Landlord, running June 11, 2011 through March 4, 2012. Absentee Landlord Ab…
Museum-Wide Exhibition Celebrates Clay Through the Ages and From Around the World
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativi…
The Louvre Presents ‘The Art of Paper’ ~ an Exhibition of 70 Works on Paper
PARIS.- For this exhibition, seventy works on paper by some fifty artists active between the fifteenth century and the present day have been selected from the print and drawing collections of three museums in Paris—the Musée du …