NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark gift of $10 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch will support the creation of a major exhibition space within its Costume Institute. This gift will allow the Museum to proceed, beginning in 20…
Haggerty Museum of Art Receives Three Major Collections Valued at $1 Million
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are among the 135 pieces of photography and contemporary art, valued at $1 million, which have been donated to the Haggerty Museum of Art thanks to the generosity of three separate donors. This …
Haggerty Museum of Art Receives Three Major Collections Valued at $1 Million
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are among the 135 pieces of photography and contemporary art, valued at $1 million, which have been donated to the Haggerty Museum of Art thanks to the generosity of three separate donors. This …
Milton Avery & the End of Modernism to Open at Nassau County Museum of Art
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Milton Avery & the End of Modernism looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense saturated co…
Monet’s Water Lilies to Reunite in Missouri
CLEVELAND (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art is lending a painting of water lilies by Claude Monet to museums in Missouri, where it will join two companion paintings for the first time in 30 years. The painting will be loaned for a year to the St. Lou…
Milton Avery & the End of Modernism to Open at Nassau County Museum of Art
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Milton Avery & the End of Modernism looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense saturated co…
Birmingham Museum of Art Celebrates 60 Years with New Guide to the Collection
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- In conjunction with the start of the Birmingham Museum of Art’s 60th year, the BMA is releasing a new collection handbook. Birmingham Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection, published by D Giles Limited, is a richly illustrated so…
Egyptian Government Threatens to Take Back New York Obelisk Unless It is Restored
NEW YORK, NY.- The Egyptian government official charged with protecting his country’s ancient monuments is threatening to take back an iconic obelisk in Central Park unless New York City takes steps to restore it. The stone obelisk “has been severely w…
Mozambican Artist Malangatana Ngwenya Dead at 74
LISBON, PORTUGAL (AP).- Malangatana Ngwenya (Mah-LANG-gah-tah-nah en-GWEN-yah), a Mozambican painter, poet and politician who became one of the African country’s most famous artists for his work drawing on the country’s rocky history, died Wednesday, a…
Collector Jane Batten Donates Nine American Masterpieces to the Chrysler Museum of Art
NORFOLK, VA.- In addition to his extraordinary success as a businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist, the late Frank Batten, Sr. was also a distinguished art collector. Now, thanks to the generosity of Jane Batten, nine works from the Batten Coll…