Friday, September 16th, 2011

Rarely Seen Masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age on View at the Legion of Honor

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One of the world’s best private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including masterworks by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen and others, is on view at the Legion of Honor from July 9 through October 2, 2011. Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where it debuted earlier this year, Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection presents paintings exceptional for their quality, superb condition and impeccable provenance. Premier examples [...]

Acclaimed Private Collection of 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings at Peabody Essex Museum

SALEM, MA.- One of the world’s best private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including masterworks by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen and others, were unveiled this winter at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection presents paintings, furniture and decorative arts exceptional for their quality, superb condition and impeccable provenance. As exemplars of the Dutch Golden Age, the works are distinguished not only [...]

Exhibition of Forbidden City Treasures Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in February

December 24, 2010 by  
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NEW YORK, NY.- A special exhibition featuring 90 exquisite objects that once adorned an exclusive compound in the Forbidden City will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning February 1, 2011. Showcasing sumptuous murals, furniture, architectural elements, Buddhist icons, and decorative arts—almost all of which have never before been seen publicly—The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from Forbidden City will present works of art that demonstrate the highest levels of artistic accomplishment in 18th-century China. Highlights of the exhibition [...]

Peabody Essex Museum to Host Art Museum Libraries Symposium

SALEM, MA.- Libraries, archives, and museums face similar challenges. Libraries and archives affiliated with art museums have a second layer of concerns to consider in determining how they best relate to their parent institution. The Peabody Essex Museum‘s (PEM) Phillips Library will host a symposium on September 23 and 24, 2010 to explore the issues associated with this very question.Major topics to be addressed include: • The Role of the Library and Archives in an Art Museum • Data Unity [...]

Peabody Essex Museum Announces Re-Opening of Crowninshield-Bentley House

June 25, 2010 by  
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SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces the reopening of one of its most storied properties, the Crowninshield-Bentley House. The house, one of 22 historic properties stewarded by PEM, is located at 126 Essex Street in Salem, MA and designated by the National Register of Historic Places. Docent-led tours of the house will resume on June 26, and a public opening celebration for the house will take place during Salem Heritage Week in August. Built at 108 Essex Street [...]

Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel at the Peabody Essex Museum

June 14, 2010 by  
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SALEM, MA.- This summer the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel –– 41 spectacular black-and-white and color images of dinosaur tracks and ancient human footpaths. The subject of a major book published by Yale University Press and showing now at the Tate Modern in London, Ruwedel’s work is as visually striking as it is conceptually rich, building on concerns raised by “New Topographics” photographers such as Robert Adams, and resonating strongly with artists such as Richard [...]

The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family on View at the Peabody Essex Museum

April 18, 2010 by  
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SALEM, MA.- The sitter was a young president on the verge of taking office. The photographer was an internationally-celebrated fashion and portrait photographer at the top of his game. The Peabody Essex Museum presents the striking results of this historic meeting with The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family: Photographs by Richard Avedon – an exhibition of photographs taken of president-elect John F. Kennedy and his young family weeks before moving into the White House. Iconic images are presented with the [...]

Major Loans of Contemporary Indian Art Coming to Peabody Essex Museum

SALEM, MA.- The Harmony Art Foundation helmed by Tina Ambani will lend three works by masters of contemporary Indian art to be unveiled as part of Sensational India! — the Peabody Essex Museum‘s annual festival of Indian art and culture April 10 – 11, 2010. Anish Kapoor’s Halo Anish Kapoor’s work has been exhibited and collected by major museums around the world including recent exhibitions at the Tate Modern in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and [...]

Peabody Essex Museum Opens Maya Exhibition

March 28, 2010 by  
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SALEM, MA.- Integrated by masterworks of Maya Art, the exhibition Fiery Pool: the Maya and the Mythic Sea was inaugurated at Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. The showcase based on new interpretations regarding the relevance of the ocean for the Prehispanic civilization, will be open from March 27th to July 18th 2010. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) lent 22 pieces lodged at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA); Yucatan Regional Museum “Palacio Canton”; Tabasco [...]