STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of t…
Gourmet Restaurant for Plants Opens at the Crocker
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will open the world’s first photosynthetic restaurant this spring. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a gourmet cuisine for flora by filtering and mixing different wavelengths of sunlight. Keats’ …
Spring Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Features the Art of John Buck
SACRAMENTO, CA.- Thirty years of John Buck’s sculpture and printmaking are surveyed in the traveling exhibition, “John Buck: Iconography,” featuring 50 prints, sculptures, and shadow box constructions. The exhibit, drawn from the collect…
New Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Surveys the Art of Gottfried Helnwein
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein in the new exhibition “Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents,” on view from January 29 through April 24, 2011. Organized by the Crocker,…
Crocker Art Museum Announces a Series of Exhibitions for Its Summer of Impressionism
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will present a series of exhibitions this summer showcasing the journey of Impressionism from France to the U.S. With a strong emphasis on landscape paintings, the exhibitions collectively feature works by renow…
Crocker Art Museum Receives Gift of Ceramics by Rob Barnard
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has received a gift of 37 works by ceramist Rob Barnard, one of the foremost practitioners of the wood-fired tradition. The collection, given by Rob Wood, brings to the Museum a fully developed view of Barnard…
Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded Museum
SACRAMENTO, CA.- This fall the Crocker Art Museum will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, …
Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded Museum
SACRAMENTO, CA.- This fall the Crocker Art Museum will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, …
Architect Charles Gwathmey’s Last Major Museum Completed at The Crocker
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has
completed construction of a 125,000-square-foot expansion designed by Gwathmey
Siegel & Associates Architects (GSAA). Opening to the public on October 10,
2010, the Teel Family Pavilion will mo…