LINCOLN, MA.- The Flansburgh House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is the latest privately owned historic property protected through a preservation easement held by Historic New England and is now the second Modern house to enter its nationally recognized S…
DeCordova’s Sixth Exhibition in the Platform Series Features Work by Barbara Gallucci
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the installation of Barbara Gallucci’s Utopiary Terrace, the sixth exhibition of the PLATFORM series, on display through April 24, 2011. In her functional installation, the New York and Bo…
Photojournalist Lucien Aigner’s Work Re-Emerges in DeCordova Museum Exhibition
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announce the first major museum showing of Lucien Aigner’s photography since the 1980s. Born in Hungary, Lucien Aigner was a pioneering photojournalist in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrat…
Rachel Perry Welty’s First Museum Solo Exhibition Opens at deCordova
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the first solo exhibition of the conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty opening January 29, 2011. This exhibition–her first large-scale museum solo show–will include Welty’s major…
Rachel Perry’s First Museum Solo Exhibition Opens at deCordova
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the first solo exhibition of the conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty opening January 29, 2011. This exhibition–her first large-scale museum solo show–will include Welty’s major…
Virginia Historian Thomas P. Lowry Denies Tampering with Abraham Lincoln Pardon
McLEAN, VA (AP).- Colleagues of a Virginia historian accused of altering a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln to make it appear he had made a major discovery say he betrayed the trust that had been placed in him. The accused historian —…
Al Hirschfeld’s Chair, Desk Going to Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
NEW YORK (AP).- Show-biz caricaturist Al Hirschfeld immortalized the world of theater with his fluid ink-and-pen portraits while seated in a barbershop chair behind a worn century-old drafting desk in the fourth-floor studio of his Manhattan town hous…
DeCordova Awarded Prestigious Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum received a $75,000 grant for exhibition programming from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The funding supports two upcoming exhibitions: Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in C…
Robert F. Kennedy-Owned Emancipation Proclamation Goes for $3.7 Million
NEW YORK (AP).- A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln that was purchased by Robert F. Kennedy sold Friday for more than $3.7 million, an auction record for a U.S. presidential document. Kennedy bought the printed c…
DeCordova Announces Co-Curators for the 2012 Biennial: Associate Curator Dina Deitsch and Abigail Ross Goodman
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Dina Deitsch and Abigail Ross Goodman, formerly co-director of the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, will co-curate the 2012 deCordova Biennial. “I am thrilled…