PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces a $250,000 grant awarded to the museum by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund the development of the exhibition Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story, which will travel to a…
Masterworks of the Venetian Renaissance Presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- Starting today, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will present 25 masterworks of the Venetian Rena…
Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence at Nassau County Museum of Art
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence, on view at Nassau County Museum of Art from May 21, 2011 through September 4, 2011, showcases more than 50 photographs by the legendary artist. The exhibition celebrates Avedon’s stori…
Exhibition of Landscapes in Chinese Contemporary Art Opens at Kunstmuseum Lucerne
LUUCERNE.- Kunstmuseum Lucerne presents Shanshui – Poetry without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art – Works from Sigg Collection, on view from May 21st through October 2, 2011. The exhibition is curated by Ai Weiwei, Peter Fischer and Uli Si…
Metropolitan Museum’s Ian Wardropper Named Next Director of The Frick Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Trustees of The Frick Collection announced the appointment of Ian Bruce Wardropper as the next Director of the institution. Mr. Wardropper, currently Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman, Department of European Sculpture and …
Butler Museum Awards Life Achievement Medals: Museum Director Bolge and Artist Strachov Honored
YOUNGTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art has announced that George Bolge, Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art (Florida), and a former Ohio resident, painter Gregory Strachov, are the 2011 recipients of the Butler Medal for Life Achieve…
E. Gilliéron & Son’s Reproductions of Art from Greek Bronze Age on View at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae in 1876 and of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete, beginning in 1900, stirred pop…
E. Gilliéron & Son’s Reproductions of Art from Greek Bronze Age on View at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae in 1876 and of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete, beginning in 1900, stirred pop…
Bonhams Spring Auctions Offer Snuff Bottles, Soapstone Figures & Chinese Works of Art
HONG KONG.- Following on from the extraordinary results of Part I and Part II, in which every snuff bottle from the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles has sold, with world records broken in eleven different categories,…
Bonhams Spring Auctions Offer Snuff Bottles, Soapstone Figures & Chinese Works of Art
HONG KONG.- Following on from the extraordinary results of Part I and Part II, in which every snuff bottle from the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles has sold, with world records broken in eleven different categories,…