WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has met the challenge posed by Lloyd Herman, the founding director of its Renwick Gallery, to create a $2 million endowment to support a new curator of craft position. Herman’s $800,000 challenge g…
Museum in Poland Acquires a Missing Collection of Composer Frederic Chopin’s Letters
WARSAW (AP).- A collection of Frederic Chopin’s letters telling of the Polish composer’s daily life, from giving lessons to the hot chocolate he drank, have gone on display in Warsaw’s Chopin museum more than six decades after they went missing. The s…
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…
See Nero and Seneca by Eduardo Barrón "Converse" at the Prado Museum
MADRID.- Visitors of the The Prado are able to contemplate the sculptural group Nero and Seneca (Eduardo Barrón, 1904) in room 74 and admire the result of the study and restoration process undertaken on the piece by the restoration department in coord…
Photography Show Examines Changing Visions Before, During and After Tragic 2005 Storms
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Before During After, a collection of extraordinary images illustrating the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the vision and work of 12 Louisiana photographers, opened at the Louisiana State Museum’s Presbytere on Jackson S…
Walters Art Museum Curator Named to Head Major German Museum
BALTIMORE, MD.- Director Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum announced that Dr. Regine Schulz, director of international curatorial affairs and curator of ancient art at the Walters since 2000, has been named executive director of the Roemer and Peliz…
The Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio is the Inspiration for J.Crew’s Spring 2011 Men’s Collection
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio is the inspiration for J.Crew’s Spring 2011 Men’s Collection. The Museum’s catalogue for the exhibition Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place, designed by Daniel Pepi…
Austin Museum of Art Announces Departure of Executive Director and Chief Curator
AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art announced in January that Dana Friis‐Hansen, Executive Director and Chief Curator, was leaving the Museum. Friis‐Hansen joined the Museum as Chief Curator in 1999 and from 2002 until January 2011, he s…
The Whitney Opens Exhibition of Highlights from Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, an exhibition of a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Museum in May 2010 by longtime trustee Emily Fisher Landau, is open at the Whitney Museum of American Art, fro…