NEW YORK, NY.- Joan Rosenbaum, who has led The Jewish Museum since 1981, creating its innovative identity as a museum of art and culture and doubling the size of its home at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, has informed the full Board of Trustees of her i…
Detroit Institute of Arts Opens Exhibition that Examines Fakes, Forgeries and Mysteries
DETROIT (AP).- When a painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh was bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1990, it was met with immediate suspicion from scholars and art experts. “Still life with Carnations,” an unsigned painting of flowers, was…
Gift from Brody Estate Expected to Yield More than $100 Million for the Huntington
SAN MARINO, CA.- A gift from the estate of Frances Lasker Brody to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is expected to yield in excess of $100 million, the largest single cash gift to the institution and one that will go a gre…
Gift from Brody Estate Expected to Yield More than $100 Million for the Huntington
SAN MARINO, CA.- A gift from the estate of Frances Lasker Brody to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is expected to yield in excess of $100 million, the largest single cash gift to the institution and one that will go a gre…
Ruling Says Fisk can Sell Part of Art Collection
By: Kristin M. Hall, Associated Press
NASHVILLE (TN).- A Nashville judge has ruled that Fisk University can sell a share of its Stieglitz art collection, but said the bulk of the proceeds must go to an endowment for the display of the artwork. To fen…
New Museum to Rotate Façade Sculpture from Ugo Rondinone’s Hell, Yes! to Isa Genzken’s Rose II
NEW YORK, NY.- This Saturday, October 30, 2010, the New Museum will begin preparations for a new façade sculpture. Isa Genzken’s Rose II (2008) will be the second work presented on the Museum’s second-floor ledge, which was designed to host a rotating…
Indianapolis Museum of Art to Open Miller House and Garden for Public Tours in May 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, announced today that the IMA will open Miller House and Garden to the public in May 2011. Located in Columbus, Ind., and one of the coun…
Chrysler Museum to Open $7.5-Million Glass Studio
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art announced it will open the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio in 2011. The addition of the Glass Studio enhances the Museum’s stature as one of the top three museums in the United States with an art glass focus. …
New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art Sells Buildings to Fund Move
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City has sold eight buildings near its Madison Avenue locale, paving the way for construction of a new facility across town. The sale price was not disclosed. But the Whitney told The …
SFMOMA Selects Snøhetta to Work with Museum on Design of Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion that enhances the museum’s services to the community and its educational, social, and economic…