CHICAGO, IL.- Today’s scrapbookers weren’t the first to abuse paper products––Renaissance print owners were regular vandals who cut, pasted, adored, and adorned their personal print collections, the same ones that are stored in museum vaults …
Diane Arbus, Irving Penn & Christer Strömholm in See the World! at Moderna Museet
STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet is presenting the history of photography with this year’s radical rehanging of its permanent collection. 16 April was the opening day for the second instalment of Another Story: See the World!, including works by iconic …
Penn Museum Launches Louis Shotridge Digital Archive
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- or the first time, scholars, students, and community leaders interested in learning more about Southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture can explore the remarkable Shotridge collection online. The Shotridge collection is widely…
Harris Museum Buys 19th Century "Puck" Painting
LONDON.- An important 19th century painting featuring Puck, the mischievous character from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has been bought for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston. Puck by Victorian artist Richard Dadd is a mys…
Colombian Master Fernando Botero to Offer Solo Sale at Sotheby’s in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- On 25 May 2011 Sotheby’s will present a remarkable group of works by the Colombian master Fernando Botero in a single-artist evening sale. The auction, entitled Fernando Botero: A Celebration, takes place alongside A Discerning Eye:…
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht Shows Modern Masterpieces from the Liege Collections
Maastricht, NL – Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht presents Wintertuin / Wintergarden a selection of modern masterpieces from the Liège collections on view through 19 June 2011. In Wintertuin, the Bonnefantenmuseum is presenting forty classic master…
High Museum of Art Names Sarah Schleuning New Curator of Decorative Arts and Design
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces today the appointment of Sarah Schleuning as the Museum’s new curator of decorative arts and design. Schleuning currently serves as…
High Museum of Art Names Sarah Schleuning New Curator of Decorative Arts and Design
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces today the appointment of Sarah Schleuning as the Museum’s new curator of decorative arts and design. Schleuning currently serves as…
Philbrook Features Precious Possessions: The Art of the Portrait Miniature
TULSA, OK.- One of Philbrook’s smallest collections (literally) is the focus of a new exhibition through July 3, Precious Possessions: The Art of the Portrait Miniature. The objects on view are portraits, but not in the traditional sense – th…
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Presents ‘Double Portrait’ by Zoran Music and Ida Barbarigo
LONDON.- The intertwined artistic lives of husband and wife painters Zoran Music and Ida Barbarigo are explored in an exhibition comprising some twenty-five works as well as photographs and ephemera at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art from…