Tampa Museum of Art celebrates 20th century masters with Spring exhibitions

TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art announces its spring 2012 exhibition schedule that honors the work of three modern masters, Romare Bearden, Don ZanFagna and John Cage. In solo exhibitions dedicated to each of the three pioneers, the Museum takes the opportunity to understand the long shadows these artists have left. “With this suite of exhibitions,” according to Todd D. Smith, the Museum’s executive director,” the Museum continues to tell the traditional and emerging histories of the art of the modern [...]

Museo de Arte de Ponce announces “Treasures of the Collection in Context: The Pre-Raphaelites”

PONCE, PR.- In an unprecedented event for Puerto Rico, on Saturday, February 4, 2012,Museo de Arte de Ponce will host an international symposium titled “Treasures of the Collection in Context: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Museo de Arte de Ponce Collection.” From 10 am to 5 pm, renowned specialists in art history and Victorian literature will meet in this south-coast Puerto Rico city to discuss the artists and works contained in the museum’s world-famed collection. This conference represents the most important academic event [...]

Peter Saul Print Retrospective, 1966-2010 opens at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, OH.- Scorching social commentary, cartoon-like grotesque figures and acidic colors characterize the paintings of Peter Saul. In organizing the first retrospective of his prints, Carl Solway Gallery highlights his parallel involvement with printmaking, featuring work created from 1966 to the present. The prints engage cultural topics ranging from the Vietnam War and decades of American policies to more personal issues involving sexual politics and consumerism. Public figures from Ronald Reagan, to Angela Davis, to Donald Duck and Superman appear. In a quote [...]

Charlotte’s Mint Museum launches major Romare Bearden retrospective on centennial of his birth

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- This fall The Mint Museum will present Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, a major retrospective of one of America’s most preeminent African American artists and foremost collagists. Opening on the centennial of the artist’s birth in Charlotte, the city in which he was born, the exhibition is the first of its kind to examine in depth how the South served as a source of inspiration throughout Bearden’s career. Encompassing approximately 100 works of art drawn from The Mint Museum’s extensive holdings as [...]

Amon Carter Museum of American Art Announces New Online Collection Database

FORT WORTH, TX- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces it has recently launched a digital collection database, which includes more than 7,500 artworks from the museum’s permanent collection. Easily searchable by artist, artwork or medium, the database can be accessed from the museum’s website at www.cartermuseum.org/custom. The process to create the digital database began in 2009, when the museum received a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to photograph and catalog the works on paper collection. Because the painting [...]

Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture to Be Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York

NEW YORK, NY.- On 2 December, Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture in New York will offer works by important American artists and genres, spanning Impressionism, Modernism, 19th Century Paintings, American Illustration and Western Art. The sale is highlighted by paintings from Property from the Collection of Philip and Charlotte Hanes, led by Winslow Homer’s Peach Blossoms (est. $3/5 million*), and will be on exhibition beginning 27 November. Winslow Homer’s Peach Blossoms. Estimate: $3/5 million. Photo: Sotheby’s Property [...]

Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper Open at the Taubman Museum of Art

ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art announced that its new fall exhibitions, Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper, open to the public yesterday. Jane Hammond: Fallen September 24, 2010 – January 9, 2011 Fallen is a large scale contemporary war memorial that recognizes the American troops killed in the Iraq war and occupation. Hammond honors each solider killed by inscribing their name on an individual and unique photograph of a leaf. Hammond worked meticulously to perfect the shape, [...]

Decades of Art by Women at the Long Beach Museum of Art

LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art is presenting the grand finale of its 60th Anniversary celebration with A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women. The Celebrating Sixty exhibition series will continue this summer with a special tribute to female artists opening on the first floor of the Museum pavilion on June 25, 2010. A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women will present approximately sixty works by women from the [...]

Delaware Art Museum Presents Fifty Works for the First State

WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Fifty Works for the First State: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, featuring art produced between 1966 and 2003 by 23 artists, on view June 19, 2010 – August 29, 2010. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel assembled one of the world’s most outstanding collections of minimal and conceptual art—over 4,000 works. They then teamed up with the National Gallery of Art, with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Awarded Significant Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced that it has received a major grant of $70,000 from the federal National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in their Access to Artistic Excellence category. This grant – the third prestigious award made to the Museum from the NEA since 2007 – will be used to fund the DMA-ECO project – Dallas Museum of Art-Exhibition Catalogs Online. Upon the project’s completion in 2012, the public will have an economical and eco-friendly method [...]

Massillon Museum exhibit to feature modern Midwest art

MASSILLON, OHIO — Christine Shearer believes there is more to modernism art than the big museums let on. And she’s out to prove it, starting this weekend.On Saturday, the Massillon Museum will debut the new traveling exhibit “Against the Grain: Midwest Modernism.” Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created by Shearer, the exhibit showcases the works of well-known and lesser-known Midwestern artists who painted the world as they saw it at the dawn of the 20th century. [...]

Smithsonian Develops Haitian Cultural Recovery Project

Haiti. – The Smithsonian is leading a team of cultural organizations to help the Haitian government assess, recover and restore Haiti’s cultural materials damaged by the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. A building in Port-au-Prince that once housed the United Nations Development Programme will be leased by the Smithsonian. The 7,500-square-foot, three-story building will serve as a temporary conservation site where objects retrieved from the rubble can be assessed, conserved and stored. It will also be the training center for Haitians [...]

The San Diego Museum of Art Earns Major Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art is the recipient of a $75,000 Access to Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest annual funder of the arts in the United States. It is also the only museum in the San Diego region receiving an award of this magnitude in this grant cycle. The grant will support the research, writing, and publication of The San Diego Museum of Art’s first comprehensive scholarly catalogue of [...]

Committee Shares Vision for UI Museum of Art; Search Under Way for Director

IOWA CITY, IA.- Replacing the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) must be a top priority so the entire permanent art collection can return to the UI, according to a report by the UI Museum of Art Envisioning Committee. The report also recommends that the new museum enhance the UI’s academic and research mission by making its collection and expertise accessible to faculty and students across the disciplines, as well as to Iowans. President Sally Mason, who requested the [...]

Exhibition Introduces Historical and Contemporary Photographic Masterpieces

ALBANY, NY.- Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection opens February 12 at the New York State Museum as the next exhibition in the Bank of America Great Art Series. On view through May 9 in the Museum’s West Gallery, the exhibition is the 22nd installment of the Bank of America Great Art Exhibition and Education Program, which brings art from New York State’s leading art museums and collections to the State Museum. Seeing Ourselves introduces [...]

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