KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Anne Wilson: Local Industry May 13-August 7, 2011. This is the first public exhibition of the Local Industry Cloth, produced in 2010 by 2,100 volunteers alongside 79 experienced weavers at the Knoxv…
Butler Museum Acquires 1892 American Genre Painting by James Longacre Wood
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.- Officials from The Butler Institute of American Art have announced that the museum has acquired a master work by American painter James Longacre Wood (c. 1863-1938) titled “Mumble the Peg.” Painted in 1892, a full twenty ye…
Decades-Long Dispute Over Ownership of Holy Text Archive Leads Russia To Nix Art Loans
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to major …
Orthodox Jewish Library Seized by Russia Has Jolted US Museums
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to maj…
Decades-Long Dispute Over Ownership of Holy Text Archive Leads Russia To Nix Art Loans
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to major …
Exhibition of Italian Prints and Drawings on View at the Georgia Museum of Art
ATHENS, GA.- “The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art” is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through August 7. The exhibition features 53 works on paper produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Guest curat…
Ancestors of Congo Square: Exhibition of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art on May 13 to July 17. In keeping with the spirit of NOMA’s centennial year, the Museum highlights one of the mo…
Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Renowned Pre-Columbian Artworks at Auction
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art today acquired two noteworthy objects of the ancient Andean Wari people at auction. The unique and celebrated Bag with Human Head is a painted animal hide pouch in superb condition exhibiting a remarkably lif…
Oren Eliav: Two Thousand and Eleven at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- The paintings featured in this exhibition by Oren Eliav, recipient of the 2010 Rappaport Prize for a Young Painter, follow upon the paintings included in the exhibition “They’ll Never Wake Us in Time,” which took place in Tel Aviv in the sum…
Anna Wintour Becomes an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Wintour has been named an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced by James R. Houghton, the Museum’s Chairman. Ms. Wintour’s election took place at the May 10 meeting of the Board. “Anna Wintour’s tirele…