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| Saturday, July 31, 2010 | |
 | New Personnel And New Positions At The Gibbes Museum Of Art For fiscal year 2010/2011, the Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce two new hires and several staff promotions. On June 29, Lasley Poe Steever joined the museum in the newly created position of Program and Events Manager. Meredith Siemens joins the Gibbes as Rental Events Coordinator.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 29, 2010 | |
 | Appleton Art Center Announces 50th Annual Art In The Park Award Winners Appleton Art Center announced the award winners for the 50th Annual Art in the Park, which took place around Appleton’s City Park on Sunday, July 25. Internationally acclaimed mosaic artist Kim Schonfeld served as judge for Art in The Park.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | |
 | Angela Brady Elected Next President Of The RIBA Angela Brady has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. Angela will become President Elect on 1 September 2010 and will take over the two-year elected presidency from Ruth Reed on 1 September 2011.(view more...) |
| Friday, July 23, 2010 | |
 | Portrait Of Wally Returns To Vienna On 20 July 2010, settlement was reached between the Leopold Museum Private Foundation (LMPF) and the Estate of Lea Bondi-Jaray with regard to the painting "Portrait of Wally" by Egon Schiele; according to this arrangement, the Foundation will pay nineteen million dollars and have the portrait returned. As it is widely known, the painting had been seized by a New York district court following an exhibition of LMPF-owned works at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1998. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 22, 2010 | |
 | SFMOMA Selects Snohetta To Work With Museum On Design Of Expansion The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion that enhances the museum's services to the community and its educational, social, and economic role in the city. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | |
 | Earliest Known English Hanukah Lamp Saved For The Jewish Museum With the help of a donation of £75,000 from the Art Fund, the Jewish Museum has successfully raised the funds to secure the "Lindo lamp", the earliest known English Hanukah lamp and one of the treasures of British Jewish heritage.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | |
 | Maja Hoffman Appointed Tate Trustee The Board of Trustees of Tate are delighted to announce that the Prime Minister has appointed Maja Hoffman as a Tate Trustee. The term of appointment is for four years from 28 June 2010.(view more...) |
| Monday, July 19, 2010 | |
 | Shortlist Announced For New Fourth Plinth Commission The shortlist of artists for the next commission to go on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square was announced. The artists are Allora & Calzadilla, Elmgreen & Dragset, Katharina Fritsch, Brian Griffiths, Hew Locke and Mariele Neudecker.(view more...) |
| Sunday, July 18, 2010 | |
 | Hammer Appoints Brooke Hodge As Director Of Exhibition Management And Publications Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum, has announced the appointment of Brooke Hodge, effective July 19, as the Hammer’s Director of Exhibition Management and Publications.(view more...) |
| Saturday, July 17, 2010 | |
 | Los Angeles County Arts Commission Awards US$4M To County Arts Groups The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has announced $4,118,000 in two-year grants to 166 nonprofit arts organizations through its Organizational Grant Program (OGP). This funding reflects a reduction in the grants budget for the last two-year cycle, 2008-10, of 9% instead of the anticipated 16%. At its July 6 meeting the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, in approving the grants, increased the grants budget by $287,000.(view more...) |
| Friday, July 16, 2010 | |
 | Rose Art Museum Announces Fall Show With Pop Artists James Rosenquist This September the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University will open an exhibit of large-scale murals by celebrated pop artist James Rosenquist. The expansive pieces, which will be on view in the Foster Gallery, will be accompanied by smaller selections of the artist's work provided by Rosenquist and drawn from the Rose's collection. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | |
 | The Menil Collection Names Toby Kamps As New Curator Of Modern And Contemporary Art Following an extensive search that included numerous national and international candidates, Josef Helfenstein, director of The Menil Collection, has named Toby Kamps as the museum’s new curator of modern and contemporary art. Currently senior curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mr. Kamps brings a wide range of museum, publishing and academic experience with him to his new post, which he will assume in September. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | |
 | Tate Liverpool Receives Freedom Of The City Of Liverpool Tate Liverpool is to be given the Freedom of the City in recognition of its two decades as a major cultural presence in the city.(view more...) |
| Sunday, July 11, 2010 | |
 | Julian Cox Named Founding Curator Of Photography For The Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco John E. Buchanan, Jr., Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the appointment of Julian Cox, one of the country’s leading authorities on photography as Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and Chief Curator of the de Young Museum.(view more...) |
| Saturday, July 10, 2010 | |
 | SolarCraft Installs Solar Energy For Sonoma Valley Museum Of Art Novato- and Sonoma-based SolarCraft completed installation of a 25.9 kW solar energy system in Sonoma, CA for the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. The SolarCraft-installed solar panels will supply over 90% of the museum's power needs, providing enormous savings.(view more...) |
| Friday, July 09, 2010 | |
 | Important Roman Sculpture Joins Collection Of The MET An ancient Roman group statue of great importance and beauty—a depiction of the Three Graces of Greek mythology—has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced by Thomas P. Campbell, the Museum's Director. The marble sculpture is a second-century A.D. Roman copy of a Greek work from the second century B.C. Discovered in Rome in 1892, the statue has been on loan to the Museum from a private collector since 1992, and has been on view in the center of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Sculpture Court since it opened in 2007.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 08, 2010 | |
 | CRMA Receives Major Grant From The Henry Luce Foundation The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has received an $80,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Renewal Fund to help the Museum’s American art collection research and exhibition program over the next three years.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 07, 2010 | |
 | Eleanor Reese Morse, Dali Museum Co-Founder, Dies Eleanor Reese Morse, who, together with her late husband A. Reynolds Morse, founded the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, passed away at her home in St. Petersburg, Florida on Thursday, July 1, 2010. She was ninety-seven.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 06, 2010 | |
 | Art Fund To Save First British Portrait Of A Black African Muslim And Freed Slave The Art Fund has given a grant of £100,000 to kick-start an appeal by the National Portrait Gallery to acquire the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave and the first portrait that honours a named African subject as an individual and an equal.(view more...) |
| Monday, July 05, 2010 | |
 | Art Dealer, Paul Thiebaud, Dies Art dealer Paul Thiebaud has died at the age of 49 at a Sacramento Hospital of colon cancer.(view more...) |
| Sunday, July 04, 2010 | |
 | Toledo Museum Of Art Names New Director Brian P. Kennedy To Lead Museum The Toledo Museum of Art announced that Brian P. Kennedy, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has accepted the position as the Museum’s ninth director with a start date of September 1. Board Chair Betsy Brady and George Chapman, head of the search committee, made the announcement this morning at the Museum.(view more...) |
| Saturday, July 03, 2010 | |
 | The MET Announces 5.24M Annual Attendance Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ended in June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, ranks among the highest in its entire 130-year history.(view more...) |
| Friday, July 02, 2010 | |
 | "Art Professions On Stage" In The Palais Royal On July 1st, Frédéric Mitterrand inaugurated "Colors of studios", a new exhibition of the cycle "Art professions on stage", which the Ministry of Culture and Communication presents from July 1st till September 10th, 2010, in the shop windows of the Palais Royal in Paris.(view more...) |
| Thursday, July 01, 2010 | |
 | Ulster Museum Wins £100,000 Art Fund Prize The Ulster Museum, Belfast was announced by judge Kirsty Young as the 2010 winner of The Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries.(view more...) |
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