Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris Extended at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art today announced that the popular Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition will be extended through Sunday, May 2, 2010. The Museum will have extended hours during this time, and the exhibition and select galleries will also be open on Monday, April 19th. Made possible by GlaxoSmithKline and originally scheduled to close on April 25, the exhibition opened on February 24 and will be seen only in Philadelphia. As of today, Picasso and [...]

Portland Art Museum Appoints Julia Dolan, Ph.D. Curator of Photography

PORTLAND, OR.- Today the Portland Art Museum announced the appointment of Julia Dolan, Ph.D. as curator of photography. Dolan will be responsible for the Museum’s photography collection which includes 6,000 images chronicling the history of photography and the Pacific Northwest. Her duties will also include researching and growing the permanent collection and presenting exhibitions based on the Museum’s collection and important works from public and private collections around the world. “I am delighted to be joining the Portland Art Museum [...]

Kelly M. O’Brien Named Executive Director of Development at Philadelphia Museum

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Kelly M. O’Brien as Executive Director of Development. Ms. O’Brien, who has served as Interim Director of Development since October 2009, has been a member of the staff for the past nine years and during that time has held positions of increasing responsibility, including Major Gifts Officer, Director of Major Gifts, and Director of Individual Giving. Her appointment follows an extensive national search and is effective immediately. Timothy Rub, [...]

Philadelphia Museum of Art Announces Exhibition that Surveys Renoir’s Final Decades

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to survey the achievement of the great Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) during the last three decades before his death. From June 17 through September 6, some 80 of the artist’s paintings, sculpture, and drawings will be on view, accompanied by a selection of works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, and others who were inspired by the master. A landmark exhibition, Late Renoir examines new directions [...]

Philadelphia Museum of Art seeks $1.5M for paintings lost in alleged scam

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- A pair of lawsuits filed this week detail a swindle that appears to have cost the Philadelphia Museum of Art $1.5 million. The museum is trying to recover the money – not from the art dealer who swindled them, but from the insurance company that protects all of the museum’s artwork from “physical damage or loss.” The origin of the dispute goes back to 2006, when museum officials decided to sell two works by a couple of America’s [...]

Kiki Smith and Christiane Baumgartner to Appear at Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Fine Arts

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Renowned artists and printmakers Christiane Baumgartner and Kiki Smith are scheduled to appear at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) as part of Philagrafika 2010, the international festival that celebrates the role of print as a vital force in contemporary art. The core exhibition of Philagrafika 2010 is the five-venue project The Graphic Unconscious, simultaneously shown at PAFA (January 29 – April 11, 2010), The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Galleries at Moore College of Art [...]

Exhibition Highlights the Exceptional Beauty of Platinum Photography

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A cornerstone of photographic practice during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the platinum print is revered by photographers and viewers alike as one of the most beautiful forms of photography, with subtle and lustrous shades that range from the deepest blacks to the most delicate whites. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition of more than 50 works from the late 19th century to the present, showcasing outstanding prints largely drawn from the Museum’s [...]

Two Intriguing Artworks, One Believed to be a Rare Honore Daumier, Up for Auction

FALLS CHURCH, VA.- The area around Washington, D.C., has always been a sweet spot for European art discoveries because so many high-ranking diplomats and government officials live there. Traditionally, these are sophisticated people who’ve traveled extensively and returned home to the nation’s capital with art and antiques acquired during their overseas stints. Matthew Quinn, partner in Quinn’s Auction Galleries, is accustomed to dealing with consignments and estate contents from D.C.’s diplomats and high society, so it takes something rather special [...]

Photographs of Nocturnal Landscapes by Robert Adams at Matthew Marks Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks Gallery presents “Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking”. The exhibition consists of 50 photographs of nocturnal landscapes Robert Adams made between 1976 and 1982 near his home in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mountains. Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, [...]

Museum Presents Installations by Two Contemporary Artists

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The printed image lies at the heart of the work of many contemporary artists, but just as printed materials have become ubiquitous in visual culture, passing nearly unnoticed, so too have print processes become an integral part of art-making without always being acknowledged. The central role of the printed image in contemporary art is the focus of the international festival, PHILAGRAFIKA 2010, to be held throughout the city of Philadelphia January 29-April 11, 2010, with over 300 artists [...]

Exhibition Surveys the Impact of Picasso and His Circle in Paris

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- One of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was at his most inventive between 1905 and 1945. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris (February 24 – April 25, 2010) surveying Picasso’s remarkable output during these years, from the pioneering role he played in the development of Cubism to his dialogue with Surrealism and other important art movements in the 1920s and 1930s. The [...]

Rodin Museum Will Reinstall “The Thinker” Following Facade Conservation and Restoration

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, one of the artist’s most famous works and a familiar fixture of Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum, will be reinstalled on its pedestal outside the Museum’s entrance on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Wednesday, January 13th. Since June, the sculpture has been on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Great Stair Hall, while the Rodin Museum’s limestone façade, known as the Meudon Monument, underwent restoration. “The Thinker”, Auguste Rodin, French, 1840 – 1917. Cast by [...]

Frey Norris Offers Most Comprehensive Look at Dorothea Tanning’s Early Career

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Beyond the Esplanade surveys a fascinating period in the career of one of the most intriguing artists and writers of the last century. After extensive travel and living for some time in Sedona, Arizona and the Loire Valley in France, Dorothea Tanning now lives back in New York City, the same city where she came to prominence in 1942. That year Julien Levy, the gallerist who effectively introduced the United States to Surrealism, visited her studio. Levy [...]

First Exhibition in Philadelphia for Cai Guo-Qiang Opens

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum will present a multi-site exhibition of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international art scene. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms consists of a poetic meditation on the passing of time, memory, and memorializing. One of the artist’s signature “explosion events,” Fallen Blossoms: Explosion Project has been specifically commissioned for the exhibition and will take place at the Philadelphia Museum of [...]

Art and Architecture Books for this Christmas

‘Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters’ Edited by LEO JANSEN, HANS LUIJTEN and NIENKE BAKKER If you are prepared to go for broke, by all means go for “Vincent van Gogh: The Letters,” a fabulous six-volume hardcover edition of the artist’s complete surviving correspondence, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. Van Gogh was a prolific, eloquent, emotionally unguarded writer, as the more than 900 letters here demonstrate. And what he couldn’t fully say in words, he drew in [...]

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