KANSAS CITY, MO- Contemporary works in clay from the outstanding collection of Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz are on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in an exhibition that opened today, Dec. 15, in the Bloch Building. Collecting with Passion: Contem…
The High Museum of Art Recently Selected to Partner with ArtBabble.org
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art was recently selected to partner with ArtBabble.org, an online art initiative that allows the Museum to post its art video content to an ever-growing online community. Launched by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in A…
Metropolitan Museum’s Exhibitions Stimulate $784 Million Economic Impact for City
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of three acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions over the summer 2010 season—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and …
Group Exhibition at Wallach Art Gallery to Examine Art and Democracy in Europe
NEW YORK, NY.- Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery opens its second exhibition of the season with Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible. The past two decades in European history have been marked by the fall of the Ber…
The Georgia Museum of Art to Reopen with Weeklong Celebration in January 2011
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will reopen with a weeklong celebration, Art Expands, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5. The museum has been closed since March 2009 for construction on its Phase II expansion and renovation proj…
Columbia Museum of Art Implements Renewable Energy Project with Grant from the US Department of Energy
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art implemented a renewable energy project using a recently installed solar panel array on the roof of its building which is reducing the amount of energy the museum has to purchase. The Museum received a $213,500 …
"El Nacimiento": Selected Nativities from the Boeckman Collection on View at the Tyler Museum of Art
TYLER, TX.- A focus exhibition of traditional Mexican nativities or nacimientos is on view at the Tyler Museum of Art. The works were selected from The Laura and Dan Boeckman Collection of Mexican Folk Art in the Museum’s Permanent Collection as w…
Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, David Becker, Dies
BRUNSWICK, ME.- David Becker died on November 26, 2010 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice in Scarborough, ME. He was born in Albany, NY on October 15, 1947 and educated at The Albany Academy, the Taft School, and Bowdoin College from which he graduated in…
Iranian Film Today Festival Returns to the High Museum of Art for the 13th Year
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host the 13th annual Iranian Film Today film festival in January 2011. Featuring six films, this year’s festival includes both seasoned, award-winning filmmakers Bahman Motamedian (“Sex My Life”)…
Columbia Museum of Art Announces Exhibition of Collection of Hudson River School
COLUMBIA, SC.- Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art next fall, beginning November 17, 2011, in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand Amer…