NEW ORLEANS (AP).- The room is lit by flashlights, an escape hole chopped in the roof with an ax lying nearby. Steps away, rising floodwaters seep down a levee wall; across the way, a storm diary written in black felt marker on a housing project wall …
The National Portrait Gallery Presents "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents the first major museum exhibition showing how questions of gender and sexual identity have dramatically shaped the creation of modern American portraiture. “Hide/Seek: Diff…
Baltimore is the Last Stop on National Tour for Acclaimed Andy Warhol Exhibition
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). On view October 17, 2010 through January 9, 2011, more than 50 works reveal the Pop a…
Baltimore is the Last Stop on National Tour for Acclaimed Andy Warhol Exhibition
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). On view October 17, 2010 through January 9, 2011, more than 50 works reveal the Pop a…
Kunsthaus Zürich Revives First Museum Exhibition Devoted to Pablo Picasso
ZURICH.- From 15 October 2010 until 30 January 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso h…
First NYC Museum Exhibition on the Tradition of Spanish Draftsmanship Opens at the Frick Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- Spanish drawings have been collected in New York and the surrounding area for more than a century. In fact, the exceptionally rich collections in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Hispanic Society of America make New York second onl…
Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art Highlights Major Works by Abstract Painters
NEW HAVEN, CT.- This fall, the Yale Center for British Art launched its 2010–11 season with an exhibition of major works by postwar British artists who came to maturity in the 1960s. The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collectio…
Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art Highlights Major Works by Abstract Painters
NEW HAVEN, CT.- This fall, the Yale Center for British Art launched its 2010–11 season with an exhibition of major works by postwar British artists who came to maturity in the 1960s. The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collectio…
First Major Museum Exhibition of Works by Elad Lassry Opens in St. Louis
ST LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents a new exhibition by Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry. Featuring recent and new works, this exhibition is the artist’s first major museum monograph in the United State…
First Museum Exhibition in Switzerland of Work by Eccentric Landscape Artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe
ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus Zürich presents, through 28 November, Switzerland’s first museum exhibition of work by eccentric landscape artist Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835). At the centre of the show are Kolbe’s landscape engravings featuring eno…