Art Museum Partnership announces program for 2011 Directors Forum conference

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Art Museum Partnership has just released the program for The 2011 Directors Forum conference. Leaders of art museums from across the nation will gather in New York City on Sunday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 25 for an extraordinary program. The 2011 Directors Forum Conference This fall museums leaders from across the nation will meet in New York City on Sunday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 25 for the 2011 Directors Forum. Art. No other professional conference offers this [...]

Some Assembly Required at the Craft and Folk Art Museum

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The world has been declared “flat” by pundits, politicians and corporate executives, but what lies beneath the glossy, one-dimensional globalization story we see in the mass stream media? How are the intensely personal issues of race and gender complicated by a “flat world”? Some Assembly Required: race, gender and globalization explores the impact of globalization on personal identity. Featuring thoughtful and eye-popping works of seventeen diverse artists who demonstrate their unique perspectives using the medium of assemblage, [...]

“Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands” at American Folk Art Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition “Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands”, on view through September 12, 2010, highlights the wealth of female artistic expression from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These graceful works were largely made during years spent in the cultivation of skills that prepared a young woman to shoulder the many roles required of her in adulthood as a wife and a mother. Others demonstrate that women continued to nourish their creative selves by plying those skills [...]

The Private Collection of Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- What Henry Darger displayed on the walls of his apartment in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago is on public view, for the first time, in the exhibition The Private Collection of Henry Darger, from April 6 through September 19, 2010. Brooke Davis Anderson, curator and director of The Contemporary Center and the Henry Darger Study Center, has selected nearly 40 cardboard collages from the more than 80 in Darger’s personal collection that are now part of [...]

Vermont Man’s Vintage Snowflake Photos for Sale in New York City

NEW YORK, NY .- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes — no two alike. Bentley, also known as The Snowflake Man, was fascinated with snowflakes, and his observations and experimentation made him the first person to capture a single snowflake with a camera. Starting Thursday, 26 of his images are for sale at the four-day American Antiques Show presented by the American Folk Art Museum [...]