GATINEAU, QC.- The Canadian Museum of Civilization has acquired at auction in Britain a dramatic watercolour by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Admiral Sir George Back, whose drawings and paintings are recognized as an invaluable visu…
The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan ‘Round-Up’ Of Fine Art
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, …
Installations Highlight the Contemporary Art of the Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- Currently on view in the Hoffman Galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art are two installations of important contemporary work drawn from the Museum’s collections as well as a collection of six Luc Tuymans works from the Dallas community…
The Ashmolean Announces Its First Major Exhibition: The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
OXFORD.- On 16 September 2010 the Ashmolean launches its first major art exhibition in one of the country’s newest and most important temporary exhibition centres. THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND ITALY brings together over 140 pictures from the Ashmolean&…
Romare Bearden’s ‘The Block’ and Related Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Romare Bearden’s vibrant mural-size tableau The
Block (1971) and related sketches and photographs will be featured at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning January 15, 2010, in a small
installation of works from the collection. The Block, an ambitious 18-foot-long
collage, celebrates the Harlem neighborhood in New York City that nurtured and
inspired so much of the artist’s life and work. On view through Spring,
2010.
Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates the Work of Jacob Lawrence
DALLAS, TX.- For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Dallas Museum of Art presents the work of one of America’s leading modern figurative painters, Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917–June 9, 2000), in a new exhibition, “Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture”. Opening on December 6 in the DMA’s Focus Gallery II, the exhibition will showcase a series of fifteen dramatic and colorful silkscreen prints based on a series of forty-one paintings entitled “The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture”, Lawrence’s first multi-part narrative series, which was completed in 1938. Rarely exhibited together, the prints, on loan from the Curtis E. Ransom