SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Gretchen Dietrich, an innovative museum professional and a skilled administrator, has been selected as the Executive Director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), effective August 1, 2010, pending notification of the Academic Se…
Exhibition Showcases 22 Artists, from Jasper Johns to Tara Donovan
BOSTON, MA.- Though richly varied in style, content, and medium, works on view in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), exhibition New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages share a common thread: they are recently acquired (by purchase, gift, and bequest)…
MFA Houston Announces Acquisition of Over 160 Decorative Arts Objects
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced the acquisition through gift and purchase of more than 160 works from the exceptional private decorative arts collection of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle, collectors based in Potomac, Marylan…
Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts Features Acclaimed Series, The Brown Sisters
BOSTON, MA.- Themes such as the passage of time and the enduring nature of close family relationships are brought into focus in the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Family Album at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The show, on view from July 28, 2010, …
Drive End: Martin Beauregard’s First Exhibition in a Museum
MONTREAL.- Through September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean‐Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the a…
Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Lisa Ayla Çakmak as the 2010–2013 Mellon Fellow for European art to 1800. Selected from a field of 11 national post-doctoral applicants, Çakmak joins the Museum from the Museum o…
First Temporary Exhibition in New Sculpture Garden Features Colossal Sculpture by Jun Kaneko
RICHMOND, VA.- The first temporary exhibition in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ new E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden will feature colossal sculpture by master ceramicist Jun Kaneko (born 1942). Kaneko is an internationally renowned Japa…
First Temporary Exhibition in New Sculpture Garden Feature Colossal Sculpture by Jun Kaneko
RICHMOND, VA.- The first temporary exhibition in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ new E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden will feature colossal sculpture by master ceramicist Jun Kaneko (born 1942). Kaneko is an internationally renowned Japa…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Announces the Naming of Three Curatorships
BOSTON, MA.- Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), recently announced the naming of three endowed curatorships at the MFA, reflecting the scope of the Museum’s encyclopedic collections, which includ…
Yousuf Karsh 100 " A Biography In Images " to open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
BOSTON, MA – The legacy of Yousuf Karsh. . the man behind the lens of some of the 20th century’s most famous photographic portraits is illuminated as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Karsh 100: A Biography in Images. The exhibit…