After ArtParis: New Horizons for Caroline Clough-Lacoste

PARIS.- After creating artparis some twelve years ago, Caroline Clough-Lacoste is now leaving the organization of this modern and contemporary art fair in order to launch two others in the Autumn of 2010. From 9 to 11 October, the Marrakech Art Fair is getting ready to bring design and modern and contemporary art galleries together in Morocco , while Paris Art Picture will celebrate video and digital images from 18 to 21 November 2010. And thus starts a new chapter [...]

Art World Remembers Artist Jeanne-Claude in New York City

NEW YORK, NY.- Members of the art world gathered Monday to remember “The Gates” artist Jeanne-Claude as a passionate, uncompromising creative force who fought tirelessly to bring giant art projects to fruition. “I’ve had the honor of meeting many artists in my life, but Jeanne-Claude was perhaps the most passionate, the most meticulous and the most impervious to the word ‘no,’” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said to the crowd. “She was the kind of unique and vibrant artist who [...]

Amon Carter Museum Announces New Assistant Facilities Manager

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announced that Ron LaPosa has joined its staff as the assistant facilities manager. In his new position, LaPosa will assist with the oversight of the museum’s daily operations, including janitorial, engineering and general maintenance. “The museum was designed by Philip Johnson as a vibrant and elegant structure that would be capable of not only housing thousands of works of American art, but functioning as a work space for staff and gathering place for [...]

The Intriguing Story of Muralist Pablo O’Higgins Told in New Book

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Becoming Pablo O’Higgins tells the intriguing story of how a blond-haired, blue-eyed Presbyterian from Salt Lake City, Utah, became a celebrated Mexican muralist. Born Paul Higgins in 1904 into a conservative Republican family of Mayflower English and Protestant Scots-Irish ancestry, O’Higgins, at age 20, boldly traveled to Mexico City at a time when Mexico was still reeling from its violent 10-year revolution. He went to see the mural renaissance involving Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David [...]

Archaeologist Pilar Luna Erreguerena Awarded the J.C. Harrington Medal

MEXICO CITY.- As an acknowledgement to a life of dedication, the Society for Historical Archaeology of the United States of America elected Mexican underwater archaeologist Pilar Luna Erreguerena, to award her with the J.C. Harrington Medal, to be presented in Austin, Texas, in January 2011, as part of the 44th SHA conference. For Pilar Luna, officer of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) Underwater Archaeology Sub Direction, this acknowledgement adds up to others awarded to her research, preservation [...]

The Drawing Center Appoints New Curator Claire Gilman

NEW YORK, NY.- The Drawing Center announces the appointment of Claire Gilman to the post of Curator, effective July 1, 2010. The Drawing Center’s Executive Director, Brett Littman, says of the appointment, “Claire brings to The Drawing Center the right level of intellectual rigor and curiosity, art historical knowledge, extensive publishing experience, and an engagement with the art and artists of our time that will continue to push our programming in new and interesting directions.” Frances Beatty Adler, Co-Chair of [...]

Dame Rosalind Savill to Retire as Director of the Wallace Collection

LONDON.- Dame Rosalind Savill, Director of the Wallace Collection since 1992, will be retiring in October 2011. Dame Rosalind, who will be sixty in May 2011, joined the Wallace Collection from the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974 and published her seminal three-volume work, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, in 1988. Dame Rosalind said at the recent Trustees meeting that she felt that this would be a fitting moment for her to go because she will have completed [...]

The Mint Museum Appoints Kathleen Jameson as New Executive Director

CHARLOTTE, NC.- The Mint Museum announced the appointment of Kathleen V. Jameson, Ph.D., as its new Executive Director, following an extensive national search supported by Management Consultants for the Arts and a Board of Trustees search committee. Jameson succeeds Phil Kline, who will remain at the Museum as its President & CEO until his retirement on December 31. Jameson has served as Assistant Director, Programming, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, since 2008 and will assume her new position [...]

Ray Barton, Creator of Minnesota Twins Logo, Dies at Age 80

ST. PAUL, MN.- The St. Paul illustrator who created the enduring Minnesota Twins logo of two players shaking hands across a river has died of cancer at age 80. Ray Barton was paid $15 in 1961 to create the image, never thinking it would become the team’s official logo. Barton assumed it would be used on cups at Metropolitan Stadium. Barton created art for advertising agencies and other companies in the Twin Cities, including Target, but it was his image [...]

Artist Purvis Young Dead at the Age of 67

MIAMI, FL.- Artist Purvis Young was pronounced dead at the age of 67 at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on April 20, 2010. The cause of death will be released following autopsy. The funeral will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church (310 NW 9th Street, Miami). Mr. Young is survived by his long time companion, Eddie Mae Lovest, four daughters, Kenyatta, Kentranice, Taketha and Elisha, and 13 grandchildren. In addition, he [...]

Howard Dodson, Jr. to Retire as Director of NYPL’s Schomburg Center

NEW YORK, NY.- Howard Dodson, Jr., a national leader in the movement to preserve African American history, will retire from his position as Director of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in February 2011. At the Schomburg his visionary leadership over 25 years developed the Center into the world’s leading and most prestigious repository for materials and artifacts on the global black experience. “I never imagined that 25 years would go by so fast [...]

Peter Eleey Appointed Curator of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Klaus Biesenbach, Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, announced today that Peter Eleey has been appointed as the Curator of P.S.1. Currently Visual Arts Curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, a position he has held since 2007, Mr. Eleey will organize exhibitions and public programs at P.S.1, and will oversee the curatorial staff. Additionally, he will work with Mr. Biesenbach and P.S.1’s staff and Board of Directors on the development of a long-range plan for [...]

Constance H. Williams Announced as New Chair of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art has completed a major transition in its volunteer leadership, ensuring the continuity of its mission and affirming its role as one of the most significant cultural institutions in the city and region. Today, after nine extraordinary years of transformational leadership as Chair of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest announced the Board’s unanimous and enthusiastic election of Constance H. Williams as his successor in this position. Mr. Lenfest will remain active [...]

Ringling Museum Names Matthew McLendon Associate Curator of Art

SARASOTA, FL.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art has appointed Dr. Matthew McLendon as the new Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art. Prior to his appointment, Dr. McLendon, a native Floridian, was appointed the first Curator of Academic Initiatives at The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College. “Matthew brings a great wealth of knowledge coupled with a fresh and exciting perspective to the Ringling Museum during a significant expansion in exhibition and [...]

Brian Jungen Wins the 2010 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO

TORONTO.- Internationally renowned Canadian artist Brian Jungen is the recipient of the 2010 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO for his outstanding contribution to visual arts in Canada. The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation and the AGO will celebrate the $25,000 prize at a public reception on May 6, and the AGO will mount an exhibition of Jungen’s work in the coming year. Born in 1970 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, to a Swiss father and a Dunne-za mother, Jungen has [...]