PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in…
Japanese Fascination with the West is Explored in Exhibition of 19th-Century Yokohama Prints
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Isolated by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate from the outside world, Japanese citizens were naturally curious about the Westerners who began to arrive on their shores following Commodore Matthew Perry’s historic voyages to Japan in…
National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Announces 2010-2011 Appointments
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2010–2011. They include Joseph J. Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art, as Samuel H. Kress Profess…
David Gordon Franklin Named Director of Cleveland Museum of Art
CLEVELAND (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art has hired a new director. He’s David Franklin, the deputy director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. He replaces Deborah Gribbon, who became interim director last year when Timothy Rub left to ta…
Museum to Present Major Survey Devoted to Italian Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In the fall of 2010, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major exhibition devoted to the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933) in the Dorrance Galleries for Special Exhibitions. Widely recognized as a key figure in the …
Newly Restored, Eakins’s ‘The Gross Clinic’ to be Centerpiece of Exhibition
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Gross Clinic of 1875 is the most renowned work created by the great Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and a landmark in the history of 19th-century American art. In late 2008, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the P…
Julien Levy’s Role in the History of Photography
Philadelphia, PA – In celebration of the centenary of the birth of Julien Levy (1906-1981), one of the most influential and colorful proponents of modern art and photography and an impassioned champion of Surrealism, the Philadelphia Museum of Art w…
Philadelphia Museum of Art opens Major Exhibition "Cézanne & Beyond"
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In 1907, the French painter Paul Cézanne’s posthumous retrospective astonished younger artists, accelerating the experimentation of European modernism. Cézanne (1839-1906) became for Henri Matisse “a benevolent god of pain…
Museum Selects Stephen Starr to Serve as Executive Caterer and to Create New Museum Cafes and Restaurant
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today that it has selected the Philadelphia-based STARR Restaurants Catering Group to be the exclusive caterer for Museum events and to redevelop and operate the Museum’s restaurant and c…
Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Arrive in Taipei for the First Time
TAIPEI.- “Manet to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art”is Taiwan’s first time to work with an American museum on an international art exhibition. The artworks are from 33 masters, including 53 oil paintings and 5 br…