LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’…
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Rediscovers London’s Lost Museums
LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’…
Exhibition in Houston Explores the Five Senses Through Works by Masters
HOUSTON, TX- Picturing the Senses in European Art, organized by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, explores artists’ interest in evoking the five senses through both allegorical and realistic associations. The exhibition of 16th-, 17th- and 18…
One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni
ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and…
Alte Pinakothek Celebrates 175th Anniversary with a Series of Blockbuster Exhibitions
MUNICH.- In 2011 the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen is marking the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th anniversary with a wide range of events. Opened to the public on 16 October, 1836, Leo von Klenze’s seminal museum building today still provides t…
LACMA Launches Image Library Expanding Online Access to Museum’s Collection
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announce that it will provide access to free high-resolution images of the museum’s rich encyclopedic collection through its newly created Image Library. Visitors to the library can do…
Marcel Duchamp and Early Modernism on View at the Moderna Museet in Malmo
MALMO.- Today, Marcel Duchamp is regarded as one of the most prominent and innovative artists of the 20th century, and his famous work Fountain was selected as the most influential work of the 1900s. Through September 11, 14 of his works, including The…
Scottish National Portrait Gallery to Receive £2M Funding Boost
LONDON.- Portrait of the Nation, the project to renovate and revitalise the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has received a £2 million funding boost from Scottish Government. Thanks to this additional grant, the initial target for the first phase of…
Amon Carter Museum Names Jessica May Associate Curator of Photographs
FORT WORTH, TX.- Amon Carter Museum of American Art Director Andrew Walker announced that Jessica May has been promoted to Associate Curator of Photographs. She will continue to collaborate with John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, in managin…
Amon Carter Museum Names Jessica May Associate Curator of Photographs
FORT WORTH, TX.- Amon Carter Museum of American Art Director Andrew Walker announced that Jessica May has been promoted to Associate Curator of Photographs. She will continue to collaborate with John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, in managin…