Neues Museum in Berlin Welcomes One Millionth Visitor

BERLIN.- At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 1 September 2010, Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, was delighted to be able to greet Harald Fuchs (48), from near Erlangen, as the millionth visitor to the Neues Museum and handed him the weighty volume ‘Neues Museum’, published by Nicolai Verlag Berlin, as well as a bouquet of flowers. Harald Fuchs, Claudia Fuchs und Friederike Seyfried vor der Nofretete im Neuen Museum (v.l.n.r.) © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Foto: [...]

Larry Gagosian to Open New Gallery in Paris in October

PARIS.- On October 20, 2010 Gagosian will inaugurate a new gallery in Paris. Gagosian Gallery of Paris is located in the 8th arrondissement, between Avenue Matignon and the Champs Elysees, in what is known as the ‘triangle d’or’. Occupying 900 square meters on four levels, it has over 350 square meters dedicated to public exhibition space on two floors. The second floor will be used as a ‘project space’ where special exhibitions and collaborative projects will be presented. One of [...]

Getty Museum Reopens Suite of Sculpture & Decorative Arts Galleries

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum today reopens its suite of sculpture and decorative arts galleries in the West Pavilion at the Getty Center with several recently acquired masterpieces featured prominently. These include Pietro Cipriani’s Medici Venus and Dancing Faun (1722-24) and a nine-foot bronze vase by the French sculptor Jean-Désiré Ringel d’Illzach (1847—1916). “On the heels of unveiling the highly successful reinstallation of the sculpture and decorative arts collection in the North Pavilion, we are pleased to [...]

Rijksmuseum Acquires Two 20th-Century Masterpieces

AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has acquired two masterpieces for its collection of 20th-century art and history: the famous chair designed by Gerrit T. Rietveld around 1918 and a relief by Jan J. Schoonhoven from 1963. Both artworks will be added to the permanent collection of the new Rijksmuseum in 2013. With its red-and-blue colour scheme designed by Rietveld around 1929, this chair became not only a visual manifestation of the Dutch art movement neoplasticism (De Stijl) that Rietveld (1888-1964) was part [...]

Georgia Museum of Art Acquires Two Paintings from West Foundation Collection

ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA), located on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus, recently acquired two significant American paintings from the West Foundation Collection of Atlanta, Ga. The foundation gave Benjamin West’s Portrait of Captain Christopher Codrington Bethell (1769) and John Linton Chapman’s Via Appia (1867) to the museum in honor of GMOA director, William U. Eiland, and in anticipation of the museum’s reopening this winter. A native of Springfield, Pa., Benjamin West was appointed historical painter [...]

National Museum Wales Acquires Important Venetian Painting

CARDIFF.- Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has purchased an important painting by the 18th century Italian artist Francesco Guardi. View of the Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore on the Grand Canal, Venice (oil on panel, 24.3 x 35.5cm) was bought with the Art Fund´s help. This significant work, accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government and allocated to Amgueddfa Cymru, is an important addition to the Museum’s outstanding 18th century collections. It supplements several other depictions of Venice [...]

Cloisters, and the Met.

Written for me by Phil Moncuse, a friend, and fellow artist With the first heat wave of the summer fast approaching, my brother Pete proclaimed that we should go to New York City to visit the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My daughter Kate wasted no time in acceptance of the idea and told me that I was not going to miss this trip. We arrived in Grand Central Station to behold a sunny Saturday morning. Then, as [...]

Museum Pasifika, Bali Indonesia

BALI. Possesing nearly half of the worlds population, the Asia Pacific region is incredibly diverse. Hundreds of ethnic groups and language have created a kaleidoscope of art forms that remains unparalleled to this day. Additionally, over the past several hundreds years, Asia Pacific has been a destination for artists from all other continents and these artists, combined with immense local creativity and inspiration, have created a harmony of styles and forms that must seen to be believed. Museum Pasifika, located [...]

Brooklyn Museum Announces Major Change in Hours Starting in October

BROOKLYN, NY.- Beginning Wednesday, October 6, the Brooklyn Museum will open to the public eight additional hours a week, including remaining open until 10 p.m. every Thursday and Friday. When the new schedule goes into effect, the Brooklyn Museum will have a greater number of evening hours than almost any other New York City museum. Despite the challenging economic climate, the enhanced public hours will be implemented following an exhaustive year-long analysis of how the Museum’s public hours might be [...]

High Museum to Offer Half-Price Tickets for Dalí Exhibition

ATLANTA, GA.- Beginning next Tuesday, August 17, the High will offer half-price adult tickets ($9), all day, for walk-up visitors only on Tuesdays through August 31. Visitors purchasing a new museum membership on these Tuesdays will also receive a free gift. Groups of 10 or more will receive two additional free tickets when booking for these Tuesdays by calling 404-733-4550. Beginning September 7 through October 29, the High will offer half-price tickets ($9) every weekday (Tuesday–Friday) from 11 a.m. until [...]

Falmouth Acquires Gotch Masterpiece at Record Price

CORNWALL.- Falmouth Art Gallery has acquired a masterpiece by Thomas Cooper Gotch, an artist with strong connections to the town. Innocence is an imaginative watercolour depicting the artist’s only child, Phylis, with a dragon. The Art Fund has given £20,000 towards the £32,000 acquisition. Thomas Cooper Gotch had strong connections with Falmouth and is central to the study of Cornish art. He is known for having spent time at the acclaimed Newlyn artists’ colony in Cornwall. This small but beautifully [...]

9/11 Museum Going Up in New York City Offers Raw Experience

NEW YORK (AP).- The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 feet below ground, a cavernous space that provides an emotionally raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge surviving remnants and spacial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once was the World Trade Center. The museum’s architects, director and two victims’ family members led members of the news media Tuesday on a tour of the subterranean space, which commemorates nearly 3,000 people who died in the [...]

Family Learning Centre Construction Under Way at the Art Gallery of Ontario

TORONTO.- The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for Whitby–Oshawa, Matthew Teitelbaum, CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Geordie C. Dalglish, Chairman of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, today celebrated the unveiling of the design and construction progress of the Gallery’s new Weston Family Learning Centre. “The new Weston Family Learning Centre will allow the AGO to continue its longstanding tradition of high-quality art education,” said Minister Flaherty. “Today’s celebration is yet another [...]

Griffin Museum’s Focus Award Recipients and Presenters Announced

WINCHESTER, MA.- The Griffin Museum of Photography today announced the recipients and presenters for its fifth annual Focus Awards. The Museum created the annual awards in 2006 to recognize individuals who have made critical contributions to the promotion of photography. They are one of the few to recognize the work of those who have been instrumental in building greater awareness of the photographic arts in the general public. A poster for Rwandan President Paul Kagame is pasted over a mural [...]

Nation’s Illustration Museum Celebrates 10th Anniversary

NEWPORT, RI.- On July 29th, the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) celebrated its 10th Anniversary in grand Newport Gilded Age style, honoring Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Wolfe and the National Arts Club (NAC) with their inaugural American Civilization Award before 350 guests at Vernon Court. The evening began with viewing the landmark exhibition, Norman Rockwell and His Mentor: J.C. Leyendecker, a scholarly presentation delving into the amazing influence of Leyendecker on Rockwell’s oeuvre. Laurence Cutler, Chairman and Co-Founder of the [...]