High to Host Third Annual Collectors Evening to Help Build Permanent Collection

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host the third annual Collectors Evening on January 20, 2012. Created with the single goal of building the Museum’s permanent collection, the event will showcase the High’s curators as they each present a work of art that they wish to have added to the High’s collection. With seven works proposed for acquisition, guests will cast their ballots in four rounds and the High will purchase the works of art that receive the most votes, [...]

Leading black contemporary artists featured at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery

WASHINGTON (AP).- Works by leading black artists in the contemporary art realm go on view Saturday at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art to tackle issues of racial, sexual and historical identity. The exhibit, “30 Americans,” will be on view through February. It features 31 artists, including Jean-Michel Basquait, Hank Willis Thomas, Kehinde Wiley and others. The 76 works come from Miami-based collectors Don and Mera Rubell. Corcoran Director Fred Bollerer said it marks an effort to undertake more daring exhibitions that examine serious [...]

N.C. Museum of Art Presents Work by Leading Contemporary African American Artists

RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art presents 30 Americans, an exhibition of work by many significant contemporary African American artists, in its Meymandi Exhibition Gallery in East Building, March 19 through September 4, 2011. Organized by the internationally known Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition features 75 works of art from the last three decades and includes painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed-media installations. 30 Americans brings together both established and emerging artists whose work explores issues of [...]

Cultural Identity and Pattern Collide in Exhibition at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art examines the concept of artists using pattern and dress to express their cultural identities in the exhibition Pattern ID, on view January 28–May 8, 2011 at the Kemper Museum. The fifteen featured artists use photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, and video to address themes of gender, race, culture, sexuality, and ethnicity. Pattern ID, organized by the Akron Art Museum, brings together forty works of art by fifteen artists from around the [...]

High Hosts Second Annual Collectors’ Evening to Help Build the Museum’s Collection

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host the second annual Collectors’ Evening on Friday, January 28. The event, instituted in 2010 to build and improve the Museum’s permanent collection, invites guests to take an active role in choosing the next work of art to join the collection. During the evening, each of the High’s current curators will present a work of art as a potential new acquisition for their collection. Guests will then cast their votes and the [...]

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Presents “Americans Now”

WASHINGTON, DC.- “Americans Now,”drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, features portraits of outstanding individuals in the realms of science, business, government and the arts. The exhibition opens Aug. 20 and will be on view through July 10, 2011. The show includes such familiar names as Erykah Badu, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Willie Nelson, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and Martha Stewart. It also features those who are less widely known but are leaders [...]

Collectors’ Evening Secures Four New Acquisitions for the High Museum of Art

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its first ever Collectors’ Evening on Saturday, January 30. The participants at the event voted to secure four new acquisitions for the museum, including a collection of twenty photographs from the “Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train Rediscovered” portfolio by Paul Fusco; the painting “Thiogo Oliveira do Rosario Rozendo” by Kehinde Wiley; an African art sculpture titled “Ntadi;” and a round-back chair and table from the “Sketch Furniture” series by Front Design. This [...]

Exceptionally High Quality and Very Solid Sales at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009

MIAMI, FL.- The eighth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach closed on Sunday, December 6, 2009. More than 250 galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa exhibited works by over 2,000 artists. With a program of special exhibitions, panel discussions, private collection tours, and events featuring film, performance, and video, the show attracted 42,000 visitors. Visitors included art collectors, museum directors, curators and cultural journalists from all over the United States and the rest of the world. [...]