INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that it will present Framed, an exhibition featuring videos created by five emerging and mid-career solo artists and one artistic collaborative—contextualizing their work in relatio…
Hebrew Manuscripts on View during High Holy Days at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360—are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Clo…
Nokuthula Ngwenyama Named 2010 Taft Museum of Art Duncanson Artist-in-Residence
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Robert S. Duncanson Society of the Taft Museum of Art has selected violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama as the 2010 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence from a talented pool of local and national candidates. A nationally recognized orchestral solo…
Who Shot Rock and Roll Ends Nation-Wide Tour at the Columbia Museum of Art
COLUMBIA, SC.- Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. The exhibition includes 175 works by more than …
Harn Museum of Art Receives $4.2 Million Collection of Asian Art
GAINESVILLE, FL.- Dr. David A. Cofrin, one of the founding donors of the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, has bequeathed 312 works of Asian art worth an estimated $4.2 million to the museum. Dr. Cofrin also established a $1 million endo…
San Jose Museum Opens First Museum Survey Devoted to Work of Leo Villareal
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art presents the first-ever museum survey of the work of the prominent sculptor Leo Villareal, a pioneer in the use of LEDs and computer-driven imagery. Leo Villareal, on view at SJMA from August 21, 2010, through …
New Orleans to Remember Hurricane Katrina with Richard Misrach Exhibition
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- In honor of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) hosts a weekend of events, all of which are free and open to the public. American photographer Richard Misrach will premiere an exhibition: …
New Exhibition of African Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art will present a significant look at African visual culture through African Masks: The Art of Disguise, a new exhibition of approximately seventy works of art exploring the highly developed and enduring art of the Af…
Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce on View at the Norton Museum of Art
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce examines why Chinese ceramics were such prized commodities, both at home and abroad. Examples of proto-porcelain appeared in China about 3,000 years ago an…
James McNeill Whistler Prints on View at the University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, MI.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art will present the prints of noted American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in a comprehensive special exhibition entitled On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whi…