MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museums newest exhibition, Framing a Decade: Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 20012011, highlights a selection of the nearly three thousand works new to the Museums prints and drawings collection…
Art Institute Showcases Innovative Projects Linking Architecture and Design Practices
CHICAGO, IL.- Modern architecture and design were long viewed as separate disciplines until practitioners in the mid-20th century began crossing boundaries and rethinking form and function. This fluid exchange of ideas has led to innovative solutions a…
Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
ST LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the February 13, 2011 opening of Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, a breathtaking exhibition that showcases more than 90 works of Maya art, many shown for the first time in the United States. T…
Oasis of Colour in Contemporary Aboriginal Painting at the Art Gallery of South Australia
ADELAIDE.- The first exhibition to chart the evolution of Australias most influential art movement is showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Desert Country reveals the extraordinary development of the Australian desert painting movement a…
Cantor Arts Center Exhibition Features Chiaroscuro Technique: A First for Reproducing Color Images
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces an exhibition on the 16th-century Italian invention of chiaroscuro, the first technology for reproducing images in color. Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from 16th-Century Italy: Promis…
Cantor Arts Center Exhibition Features Chiaroscuro Technique: A First for Reproducing Color Images
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces an exhibition on the 16th-century Italian invention of chiaroscuro, the first technology for reproducing images in color. Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from 16th-Century Italy: Promis…
The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875 at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The first exhibition to explore the rich dialogue between Victorian-era British photography and Pre-Raphaelite painting showcases how these parallel artistic phenomena informed and inspired one another. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British…
Special Exhibition Reconsiders John La Farge’s Contributions to American Art in Centenary Year of Artist’s Death
NEW HAVEN, CT.- In August of 1890, John La Farge (18351910) and his friend the renowned historian Henry Adams (18381918) embarked on a journey to the islands of the South PacificHawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Fiji, Australia, Indon…
Special Exhibition Reconsiders John La Farge’s Contributions to American Art in Centenary Year of Artist’s Death
NEW HAVEN, CT.- In August of 1890, John La Farge (18351910) and his friend the renowned historian Henry Adams (18381918) embarked on a journey to the islands of the South PacificHawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Fiji, Australia, Indon…
Views and Souvenirs from the Grand Tour Assembled in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished ruins of the ancient world and the splendid architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Th…