Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is home to one of the world’s great collections of ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) prints. The museum’s new exhibition, “Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints,” running through January 8, 2012, features more than 160 masterworks that reveal the great breadth of ukiyo-e production as well as the individual artistry of about 40 artists. Organized thematically, the exhibition provides a kaleidoscopic view of popular culture in pre-modern Japan. “Pop Art” usually describes [...]

Christie’s announces “Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets” sale

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Collectors of fine European decorative arts will have a rare chance to own treasures brought to the New World during the Gilded Age by titans of American business and philanthropy in Christie’s upcoming sale, The Gilded Age, 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets on November 22. Led by de-accessioned works from some of America‟s leading art and history museums, the sale features a rich and diverse selection of furniture, sculpture, works of art, tapestries, ceramics and carpets. The [...]

N.C. Museum of Art presents largest collection of authentic Rembrandts for U.S. audience

RALEIGH, NC- A groundbreaking new exhibition brings together the largest number of authentic Rembrandt paintings from American collections ever before assembled. Organized and presented by the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Rembrandt in America is the first major exhibition to explore how the desire for Rembrandt paintings by American collectors in turn fueled critical connoisseurship and research about the artist’s work. Rembrandt in America premieres at the North Carolina Museum of [...]

Minneapolis Institute of Arts to transfer 5th century B.C. Greek volute krater to Italy

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) has agreed to transfer a 5th century B.C. Greek volute krater acquired by the MIA in 1983 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for delivery to Italy. The MIA became concerned with the provenance of the object and contacted the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities of the Italian Republic (Ministry). Both the Ministry and ICE HSI provided information about the krater to the Museum. Working collaboratively with the Ministry [...]

Masterpieces of the Renaissance from the National Galleries of Scotland on View in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts , in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents an exhibition of 25 Venetian masterpieces—12 paintings and 13 drawings—including two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–59). The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese, and Lotto from the NGS collection. The MIA’s presentation of “Titian and [...]

Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- An important international exhibition, “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection” opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) February 6 and runs through May 15. Additionally, the MIA is presenting “Lost Wax, Found Sculpture,” an exhibition that explains the technique of making bronze sculpture according to the historically popular technique of lost-wax casting. “Beauty and Power” is selected from Marino’s unparalleled private collection of 16th- to 18th- century Italian and French bronzes, [...]

Masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance Coming to Minneapolis Institute of Arts

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will present an exhibition of 25 Venetian masterpieces—12 paintings and 13 drawings—including two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–59). The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese, and Lotto from the NGS collection. The MIA’s presentation of “Titian [...]

Photo Series at Minneapolis Institute of Arts Features James Welling’s Glass House

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The third exhibition in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ new photography series featuring groundbreaking contemporary artists presents the innovative work of Los Angeles photographer James Welling. On view through March 7, 2011, “New Pictures 3: James Welling, Glass House” showcases an elegant photographic series of Philip Johnson’s modernist architectural masterpiece, Glass House (1949). Using a digital camera and color filters, Welling experiments with new possibilities for architectural photography, capturing the luminous effects of Johnson’s glass-skinned structure at different [...]

High Museum of Art Brings Titian’s Famed Diana Paintings to US for First Time

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never before traveled to the United States. The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the National [...]

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 [...]

Huntington to be the First U.S. Venue for Important Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes Exhibition

SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will be the first U.S. venue for the important international exhibition “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection,” which will be on view in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery Oct. 9, 2010 through Jan. 24, 2011. The exhibition is a rare look at 24 exceptional bronze statuettes from the private collection of New York architect Peter Marino—most of which have never before been [...]

Exhibition to Show How Artists have Depicted Wealth over the Last Ten Years

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- A new photography exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) explores how contemporary media artists have depicted wealth over the last ten years. Organized by MIA curator of photography and new media David E. Little, “Embarrassment of Riches” upends the usual attention given to images of poverty in publications and museums; instead analyzing the cultural impact of wealth. Following a decade of unprecendented historical flows and fluctuations of wealth on a global scale, this exhibition is not [...]

Titian’s Monumental “Diana” Paintings to Travel to U.S. for First Time

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never before traveled to the United States . The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the [...]

MIA to Present Inaugural Show by Newly Appointed Contemporary Art Curator

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) celebrates its new commitment to contemporary art with Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010). Opening April 16, 2010, the exhibition includes more than 75 works of art—including paintings, sculpture, prints, installation art, photography, and video—by artists who have altered the direction of art over the past five decades, and in some cases challenged our basic conceptions about art. Artists represented include modern masters as well as those emerging on the scene, such [...]

Snite Museum of Art to Show Selected Drawings from Weisberg Collection

SOUTH BEND, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art announces the exhibition “Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection” on view from January 17 through February 28, 2010. This traveling exhibition features approximately fifty drawings, watercolors, and pastels selected from the superb collection of Minnesota collectors Gabriel and Yvonne Weisberg. The exhibition was organized by Lisa Michaux, Ph.D, Acting Co-curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Weisbergs began collecting drawings [...]

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