The Georgia Museum of Art to Reopen with Weeklong Celebration in January 2011

ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will reopen with a weeklong celebration, Art Expands, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5. The museum has been closed since March 2009 for construction on its Phase II expansion and renovation project. GMOA broke ground on its expansion in 2009, after raising $20 million in private support to fund the entirety of construction. The addition to the existing facility will include more than 16,000 square feet in new galleries, [...]

Baltimore Museum of Art unveils $24 million renovation plan

Baltimore, Maryland. – Baltimore Museum of Art leaders unveiled plans on Tuesday to complete a $24 million renovation in time for the institution’s 100th anniversary in 2014, a three-year project that will require some galleries to be closed in phases starting early next year. The museum’s director, Doreen Bolger, and its fundraising campaign co-chair, Sandra Levi Gerstung, announced that the museum has raised more than half the funds needed for the project, including a commitment of $10 million over four [...]

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 [...]

Amon Carter Museum Receives $118,000 in Education Grants

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has received grants totaling $118,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The Junior League of Fort Worth, Inc. and Alcon Laboratories, helping to further advance the museum’s educational programs. With a $75,000 Picturing America School Collaboration Project Grant from the NEH, the Carter will provide a summer professional development conference, educating area teachers about American art and how it can be used in the classroom to build the [...]

Walters Art Museum Receives Grant to Support Digitization of Manuscripts

BALTIMORE, MD.- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $315,000 for a 2 1/2 year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 105 illuminated medieval manuscripts. Representing diverse Byzantine, Greek, Armenian, Ethiopian, Dutch, English and Central European cultures, this project, entitled “Parchment to Pixel: Creating a Digital Resource of Medieval Manuscripts”, will allow for the digitization of approximately 38,000 pages of ancient text and 3,500 pages of illumination. “The aim of this project is to [...]

Exhibition of Loans by Oberlin College to Open at the Cleveland Museum of Art

OBERLIN, OH.- Beginning March 23, 2010, through early 2011, 20 works of art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s (AMAM) collections of 17th-19th century European art will be integrated into the galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The works on view include paintings by Batoni, Lawrence, Hogarth, Van de Venne, Hobbema, Chardin, Boucher, Oudry, Lagrenée, and Boilly. Two bronze statues— one by 18th-century artist Francesco Bertos and another from the 17th century after a model by Giambologna—have been [...]