Madrid, Spain. The Fundacion Mapfre is currently showing “Odilon Redon”, on view through April 29th. This exhibition is the first major retrospective of this French artist’s oeuvre in Spain. A hundred and seventy works, including drawings, prints a…
Delaware Art Museum celebrates 100th anniversary with Howard Pyle exhibition
WILMINGTON, DE.- Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911) was one of America’s most popular illustrators and storytellers during a period of explosive growth in the publishing industry. A celebrity in his lifetime, Pyle’s widely circulated images of pi…
The Nelson-Atkins Museum Presents George Ault and 1940’s America
Kansas City, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum is proud to present the travelling exhibition “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America”, on view at the museum from October 15th through January 8th 2012. During the turbulent 1940s, George Ault (18…
Cincinnati Art Museum Conservator Conducts Conservation of van Gogh in Public
CINCINNATI, OH.- From Monet’s garden to Art Deco delights, the Cincinnati Art Museum will take you on a journey through time and place as part of its 2011-2012 Exhibition season. Highlighting both the Art Museum’s superb permanent collectio…
Eleven Egyptian Officials to Be Tried in Van Gogh Theft
CAIRO (AP).- Eleven culture officials from Egypt’s government have been formally charged in last month’s theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum that had no functioning security alarms. The public prosecutor says he has referred the e…
Egyptian Minister, Farouk Hosni, Questioned in Van Gogh Theft
CAIRO (AP).-Egyptian prosecutors questioned the culture minister for three hours over the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting that has put him on the defensive over the state of museum security around the country. Farouk Hosni said he sought in Sunday…
Van Gogh Masterpiece Travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
BOSTON, MA.- Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but for Vincent van Gogh, it was a means of self education for the artist in the 1880s, who copied numerous works by Jean-François Millet to teach himself how to draw and paint. The visual dialogue that ensued between master and student is the focus of Visiting Masterpieces, an ongoing series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), which showcases great art from museums and private collections around the world within the context of the MFA’s encyclopedic collection. To inaugurate the series, the Museum welcomes van Gogh’s “The Sower” (1888), on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, to Boston for juxtaposition with the work that inspired it, Millet’s The Sower (1850), one of the MFA’s celebrated masterpieces. The paintings, which have never before been seen