TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art announced today that Brian P. Kennedy, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has accepted the position as the Museum’s ninth director with a start date of September 1. Board Chair Betsy Bra…
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…
Vogel Collection and Andy Warhol Polaroids at PAFA
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents two simultaneous exhibitions featuring gifts from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel and the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 1992, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel pledged …
Delaware Art Museum presents Fifty Works for The First State
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum
presents
Fifty Works for the First State: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Collection,
featuring art produced between 1966 and 2003 by 23 artists, on view June
19,
2010 – August 29, 2010. Dorothy…
Delaware Art Museum Presents Fifty Works for the First State
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Fifty Works for the First State: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, featuring art produced between 1966 and 2003 by 23 artists, on view June 19, 2010 – August 29, 2010. Dorothy and Herbert V…
Janet Carding Appointed Royal Ontario Museum’s New Director and CEO
TORONTO.- Sal Badali, Chair of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Board of Trustees, announced today the appointment of Janet Carding as the new Director and CEO effective September 2010. Carding will be responsible for furthering the Museum’s mission…
British Museum Announces "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" Exhibition
LONDON.- The British Museum’s major Autumn exhibition, supported by BP, will present and explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death. Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead will showcase the rich textual and v…
Altered Images Exhibition to Open at Irish Museum of Modern Art
DUBLIN.- An innovate exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 17 June 2010. Altered Images comprises works from the collections of S…
The Centre Pompidou Dedicates An Exhibition to Women: elles-at-centrepompidou
PARIS – The new
hang of the permanent collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne is to
be entirely devoted to modern and contemporary women artists – the first
time such a thing will have been done by a national museum…
Rubens, Guercino, Pencz and Van Dyck to Highlight Christie’s Sale
LONDON.- Christie’s Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale will take place on 6 July 2010 and will offer a rich array of 68 paintings, drawings and watercolours spanning 600 years of European art history. Leading the sale is A Commander bei…