SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will open the world’s first photosynthetic restaurant this spring. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a gourmet cuisine for flora by filtering and mixing different wavelengths of sunlight. Keats’ …
Spring Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Features the Art of John Buck
SACRAMENTO, CA.- Thirty years of John Buck’s sculpture and printmaking are surveyed in the traveling exhibition, “John Buck: Iconography,” featuring 50 prints, sculptures, and shadow box constructions. The exhibit, drawn from the collect…
New Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Surveys the Art of Gottfried Helnwein
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum presents a survey of the work of artist Gottfried Helnwein in the new exhibition “Gottfried Helnwein: Inferno of the Innocents,” on view from January 29 through April 24, 2011. Organized by the Crocker,…
Crocker Art Museum Announces a Series of Exhibitions for Its Summer of Impressionism
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will present a series of exhibitions this summer showcasing the journey of Impressionism from France to the U.S. With a strong emphasis on landscape paintings, the exhibitions collectively feature works by renow…
Crocker Art Museum Receives Gift of Ceramics by Rob Barnard
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has received a gift of 37 works by ceramist Rob Barnard, one of the foremost practitioners of the wood-fired tradition. The collection, given by Rob Wood, brings to the Museum a fully developed view of Barnard…
Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded Museum
SACRAMENTO, CA.- This fall the Crocker Art Museum will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, …
Crocker Art Museum Announces Inaugural Exhibitions for Expanded Museum
SACRAMENTO, CA.- This fall the Crocker Art Museum will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, …
Architect Charles Gwathmey’s Last Major Museum Completed at The Crocker
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has
completed construction of a 125,000-square-foot expansion designed by Gwathmey
Siegel & Associates Architects (GSAA). Opening to the public on October 10,
2010, the Teel Family Pavilion will mo…