Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Socrates Sculpture Park appoints New Museum’s John Hatfield as new Director

December 18, 2011 by  
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LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.- Socrates Sculpture Park announces the appointment of its next executive director, John Hatfield. Hatfield will assume directorship of the Park on January 18, 2012, following seventeen years at the internationally acclaimed New Museum of Contemporary Art in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There, Hatfield served in the capacity of Deputy Director since 2008 and held various positions from 1992 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2011. He succeeds Alyson Baker, who served as Director from 2000 to [...]

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Names Harry Philbrick as Director of Museum

January 24, 2011 by  
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PHILADELPHIA, PA .- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announced that Harry Philbrick has been named The Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Academy Museum , effective March 1, 2011. Since 1996, Harry Philbrick has been the Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Under his leadership at The Aldrich Museum, attendance tripled and the quality of the programs increased dramatically. Philbrick successfully spearheaded a $9 million capital campaign and a major museum campus expansion [...]

First Solo Museum Exhibition of the Work of Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS Opens at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

June 30, 2010 by  
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RIDGEFIELD, CT.- This first solo museum exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, includes his most recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a survey of his iconic street art, apparel, product and graphic designs. KAWS’s first aesthetic influences came from skateboarding, as did his familiarity with New York City. Around 1991, he started marking his name in different areas of New Jersey and Manhattan. By the time he finished high school, he [...]

Rackstraw Downes Exhibits at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

June 28, 2010 by  
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RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The exhibition features Rackstraw Downes’s three-part painting, Under the Westside Highway at 145th Street: The North River Water Pollution Control Plant, and the many sketches and preparatory works which were part of the process of its creation. The work depicts a space which the artist describes in his journal as “very ‘ancient Rome’; Piranesi-like … with enormous columns, and some nice curves …” Typical of Downes’s work, it is an in-between space, utilitarian and majestic; a manmade space [...]