LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that it has entered into a partnership with Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival. As a result of t…
2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Highlights 47 Contemporary Maine Artists
PORTLAND, ME- This spring the Portland Museum of Art features 47 artists whose work has been selected for the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, on view April 7 through June 5, 2011. Last September, jurors Jim Kempner, Owner and Director of Jim Kemp…
High to Showcase Works by Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle from Atlanta Collections
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will organize and host “Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: American Moderns from Atlanta Collections,” an exhibition featuring approximately 60 works―watercolors, prints, paintings and photographs̵…
First Exhibition to Focus on Motif of the Open Window in 19th Century Art at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- During the Romantic era, the open window appeared either as the sole subject or the main feature in many pictures of interiors that were filled with a poetic play of light and perceptible silence. Rooms with a View: The Open Window in th…
Bonnard’s Le Petit Déjeuner to Highlight Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced its upcoming Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 4 will include Pierre Bonnard’s Le petit déjeuner, an important interior scene from the artist’s last decade, a significant period of mode…
‘The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918’ On View at the Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, MS.- ‘The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918’, will be on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art through July 17, 2011. Visitors to this eleventh exhibition in ‘The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibitio…
Amy Brandt, Ph.D. Joins Chrysler Museum as McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art announced that Amy Brandt, Ph.D., has joined the Museum as the McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She will oversee the Museum’s more than 2,400 works of art in the modern and contemporary col…
High Museum of Art Appoints Kimberly Watson New Director of Museum Advancement
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces that the Museum has appointed Kimberly Watson as the new Director of Museum Advancement. Watson will oversee the High’s advancemen…
Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida Names Steven V. Maklansky as New Director
BOCA RATON, FL.- Today, the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees announced that Steven V. Maklansky has been chosen as the Museum’s new Director. He will begin his position July 1, 2011. “The Boca Raton Museum of Art provides extraordinary arti…
Reconsidering Bouguereau: An Artistic Revolution at Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Hirschl & Adler Gallery presents Bouguereau & His Milieu, on view until April 30th, 2011. In the 1950s, the art establishment had a rather narrow view of art and art history. When abstract art was at its peak, Hudson River School painti…