BIRMINGHAM, AL.- “Pattern, Costume and Ornament” opened at the Birmingham Museum of Art on June 6 in the Bohourfoush Gallery. The works gathered in the exhibition were created by African and African-American artists and drawn from the Museum’…
Alfred Stieglitz: the Lake George Years on View at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
SYDNEY.- The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifi…
Miami Art Museum Names Thomas "Thom" Collins as Director
MIAMI, FL.- Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director …
MoMA’s Annual Premiere Brazil! Film Festival Returns this July
NEW YORK, NY.- The eighth annual Premiere Brazil! film festival, a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, introduces New York audiences to original and accomplished recent work by both new and…
Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists
New
York, New York – For artists, being included in a museum exhibition
generally
means first having to penetrate the well-guarded gates of a prestigious
art
gallery. But now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are
aiming t…
Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel at the Peabody Essex Museum
SALEM, MA.- This summer the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel –– 41 spectacular black-and-white and color images of dinosaur tracks and ancient human footpaths. The subject of a major book published by …
Show at Brooklyn Museum Unveils Andy Warhol’s Catholic, Abstract Side
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- As a pop art pioneer, Andy Warhol blazed his way to fame with trademark Brillo soap pad boxes and silk-screens of Campbell’s Soup cans. But a new museum exhibit shows pop art was just a seven-year phase for Warhol in the 1960s, bef…
Kodak Donates Colorama Collection to Photo Museum
ROCHESTER, NY.- Eastman Kodak Co. is turning over its archive of panoramic Colorama images to a hometown photography museum in upstate New York where its founder lived. George Eastman House said Friday the collection includes original negatives and pri…
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH,
NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a
North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and
wearing
ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young
boy. Art
historians beli…
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH, NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extre…