Tag: Showcases

Milwaukee Art Museum Frames a Decade with Newest Exhibition

MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum’s newest exhibition, Framing a Decade: Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 2001–2011, highlights a selection of the nearly three thousand works new to the Museum’s 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 Australia’s 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 (1835–1910) and his friend the renowned historian Henry Adams (1838–1918) embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific—Hawaii, 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 (1835–1910) and his friend the renowned historian Henry Adams (1838–1918) embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific—Hawaii, 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…

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