School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Fine Arts Department Open Studios at SVA April 26–28, 2012 Reception: Thursday, April 26, 5 – 9pm Friday, April 27, 12–8pm Saturday, April 28, 12–6pm 133/141 West 21 Street, Floors 8 and 9 www.sva.edu mfafineart.sva.edu Chelsea, one of the most engaging arenas of art in New York City, is, […]
The U.S. Department of State and the Bronx Museum of the Arts Announce International Community-Based Visual Arts Program
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to launch smARTpowerSM, a new international exchange program in which 15 American visual artists…
William Lee Golden Honored at Tennessee State Museum
NASHVILLE, TN.- The stars came out to pay
tribute
to William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys at a special reception at
the
Tennessee State Museum centering around an exhibit of his paintings.
William Lee
told the assembled crowd, “I…
Birds of New York Opens at the New York State Museum
ALBANY, NY.- Birds of New York and the Paintings of Louis Agassiz Fuertes opened at the New York State Museum January 30, showcasing the original watercolors painted a century ago by one of America’s foremost science artists. The exhibition, in the Museum’s Crossroads Gallery, will be open through September 6. It will feature 40 of more than 100 paintings that Fuertes created to illustrate Birds of New York, a monumental book that combined beautiful art and scientific scholarship. The first edition of the book will be on display, along with a print portfolio and specimens from the Museum’s ornithology collection. The first volume of Birds of New York – Water Birds and Game Birds – was published to much acclaim in 1910. Volume Two – Land Birds – followed four years later. Birds of New York was collaboration between Fuertes and author Elon Howard Eaton and served as a model for ornithology