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…
Babcock Galleries Shows Ten Paintings by Robert Schwartz
New York, NY- Babcock Galleries are proud to present “Robert Schwartz”, ten of the artists paintings, on view at the gallery from September 8th through October 7th. Robert Schwartz provides a portal into a world of emerging gay culture and soci…
New Works by Toronto-Based Artist Ray Caesar at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents A Gentle Kind of Cruelty, new works by Toronto-based artist Ray Caesar, in what is his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features printed multiples as well as several large-scale, original, …
Frye Art Museum’s Summer Exhibitions Celebrate Alaskan Art
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum’s summer
exhibitions celebrate the tenure of former Frye Director Ida Kay
Greathouse, the
role that Alaska played in the history of the Museum, and the artwork of
Fred
Machetanz, who captured the rugge…
Frye Art Museum/Arts Corps Collaboration Invited to White House
SEATTLE, WA.- Eight Arts Corps students and their two teaching artists – the creative force behind the Frye Art Museum’s new exhibition I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me – have been invited to attend the White House historic concert and education event on February 10th entitled “A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement.” In October 2009 the Frye Art Museum met with Arts Corps to invite a group of students to curate a new exhibition drawing on the Frye’s permanent collection. The students began by working in the stacks of the Frye Art Museum and at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center with Arts Corps teaching artist Roberto Ascalon (poet) and Arts Corps and MusicianCorps teaching artist Amos Miller (musician/producer). Over the course of several months the students viewed and discussed hundreds of Frye Permanent Collection works of art, working closely with various members of the s