Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Neuberger Museum of Art presents first ten-year survey of paintings and drawings by Dana Schutz

September 25, 2011 by  
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PURCHASE, NY.- Even before she had reached the age of thirty, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Her imaginative work, filled with inventive stories and hypothetical situations, is strange, humorous, whimsical, disturbing, and oddly compelling, all at the same time. Combining fantasy and reality, humor and horror, her vibrant paintings abound with expressionist energy. From September 25 through December 18, 2011, the Neuberger Museum of Art will present Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, the first [...]

Milton Avery & the End of Modernism to Open at Nassau County Museum of Art

January 10, 2011 by  
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ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Milton Avery & the End of Modernism looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense saturated color fields, the simplification of form, and figures that emphasize the flatness of canvas surface. Milton Avery & the End of Modernism opens at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) on January 22, 2011 and remains on view through May 8, [...]

20th Century Financial Titan and Top Modern Art Collector Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107

December 27, 2010 by  
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NEW YORK, NY.- Roy R. Neuberger, a Wall Street investor who became one of the nation’s top modern art collectors, has died. He was 107. Neuberger died Friday at his home in Manhattan’s Pierre Hotel, said Rich Chimberg, a spokesman for the Neuberger Berman firm. Neuberger had survived Wall Street’s three major crises with enough money to build one of the largest private collections of major contemporary masterpieces. Roy R. Neuberger, one of the foremost patrons of American art, speaks [...]

Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s are the Focus of an Exhibition

September 12, 2010 by  
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PURCHASE, NY.- For fifty years, Faith Ringgold, has used her art to comment on racism and gender inequality. Though best known as the progenitor of the African American story quilt revival that began in the 1970s, it is her pointed political paintings of the 1960s – many of which disappeared from view — that are the focus of American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960 – on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art, in Purchase, New [...]

Miami Art Museum Names Thomas “Thom” Collins as Director

June 19, 2010 by  
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MIAMI, FL.- Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM). Collins will join MAM after serving for five years as director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester County , New York . Collins’ appointment comes just as MAM begins to transition into a new [...]