| Thursday, July 31, 2008 | |
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Statement From Donald Sobey From The National Gallery Of Canada In light of recent media reports, the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) wishes to speak to the continuing exceptional standing of a great national institution that continues to be an icon of the visual arts in Canada, as well as to comment on certain recent events. This year’s exhibition program is being well received. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | |
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Heather Steliga Joins MAM As Associate Director For Communications Miami Art Museum Director Terence Riley has named Heather Steliga as the museum’s Associate Director for Communications. Reporting to Richard P. Townsend, the museum’s Deputy Director of External Affairs and MAM’s Board of Trustees, Steliga will be responsible for all of MAM’s public communications efforts, including marketing, advertising and press relations. (view more...) |
| Monday, July 28, 2008 | |
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Walters Art Museum Announces The Temporary Closing Of Galleries The Walters Art Museum will temporarily close its highly regarded 19th-century collection, located on the fourth floor of the museum’s Centre Street Building, from Aug. 18 through Oct. 10, 2008. Many of these works will go on tour for the exhibition "The Road to Impressionism" on view at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Oct. 18, 2008 – Jan. 11, 2009 and at the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Feb. 7 – May 3, 2009. A few 19th-century artworks will remain on view in the Centre Street’s fourth floor lobby. In addition, the focus show "Sonya Clark: Loose Strands, Tight Knots" will be on the fourth floor through Sept. 21, 2008. (view more...) |
| Saturday, July 26, 2008 | |
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TMA Names wHY Architecture As Design Architect On New Museum Facility The Tyler Museum of Art is one step closer to building its new home. The Museum's Board of Trustees has named the award-winning team of wHY Architecture, led by Yo-ichiro Hakomori and Kulapat Yantrasast, as its principal design architect on the new TMA facility, Director Kimberley Bush Tomio announced. (view more...) |
| Friday, July 25, 2008 | |
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Thomas Bruhn Named Interim Director Of The William Benton Museum Of Art Dr. Thomas Bruhn has been named Interim Director of the William Benton Museum of Art, the state's art museum located on the University of Connecticut campus at Storrs. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 24, 2008 | |
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SAM Board Of Trustees Announces Search Committee For New Director Jon Shirley, chairman of the Seattle Art Museum Board of Trustees, announced that the board has formed a committee to conduct a search for a new director of the Seattle Art Museum. A new director is sought to replace Mimi Gates who will retire from her position on June 30, 2009. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | |
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State Arts Council Votes FY09 Awards At its 42nd Annual Meeting at the New Jersey State Museum Auditorium, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts voted to disburse awards totaling $18,810,337 that will support more than 800 arts organizations, programs and projects across the state. In addition, the Council swore in two new Council members Alisa Cooper and Arthur Factor; welcomed a new ex-officio member, Senator Thomas H. Kean, Jr.; and elected new Council officers for the coming year. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | |
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The NPG Presents Exhibition In Celebration Of Lincoln’s 200th Anniversary Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) is one of America’s most revered presidents. His leadership during America’s most divisive crisis, the Civil War, was essential to the abolition of slavery and the preservation of the union. In this exhibition, "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln," National Portrait Gallery historian David C. Ward continues the museum’s "One Life" series with an exploration of how Abraham Lincoln crafted his public persona. "The Mask of Lincoln" will open Nov. 7, in anticipation of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, and will continue through July 5, 2009. (view more...) |
| Monday, July 21, 2008 | |
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Sotheby's Sets New Record For Any Book Illustration Sold At Auction At Sotheby’s London, Beatrix Potter’s original watercolour illustration for the final scene from "The Rabbits’ Christmas Party" sequence sold for the remarkable sum of £289,250 – almost five times its pre-sale high estimate (est. £40,000-60,000) – setting a new record for any book illustration sold at auction. (view more...) |
| Friday, July 18, 2008 | |
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First Major Le Corbusier Exhibition In Britain For Over 20 Years Explore the extraordinary career and enduring legacy of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), iconic architect, designer, writer and artist in the first major exhibition of his life and work seen in Britain for over 20 years. Undoubtedly the single most influential architect of the twentieth century, Le Corbusier was also the most controversial. Across the world, his revolutionary designs were instrumental in the development of modern architecture, forever changing the environment in which we live. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 17, 2008 | |
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Precious Timor-Leste Artefacts Arrive In Darwin His Honour Mr. Tom Pauling AO QC, Administrator of the Northern Territory joined Mr. Diamantino (Dino) Ribeiro, President of Darwin’s Portuguese and Timorese Social Club to inspect a shipment of precious Timor-Leste artefacts being unpacked by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | |
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Cydney Payton Resigns As Executive Director and Chief Curator of MCA DENVER MCA DENVER announces the resignation of its visionary Executive Director / Chief Curator, Cydney Payton, who will leave the museum at the end of October 2008. Cydney Payton led MCA DENVER from a modest institution with an exhibition space in a former fish market with an annual budget of $360,000 to a recently completed, environmentally sustainable, permanent home designed by David Adjaye. Today MCA DENVER’s annual operating budget exceeds $2.8 million. While an international search for MCA DENVER’s next Executive Director / Chief Curator is underway, Payton will continue to guide MCA DENVER through the transition, including curating key future programs. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | |
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Adult Students Have A New Outlet For Creative Expression The Art Institute of Atlanta will launch an Evening and Weekend Option for several of its comprehensive, career-focused bachelor’s and associate degree programs in the fall quarter starting October 6, 2008. The new option is designed to provide working adults who cannot attend class during traditional business hours the opportunity to complete their education through a combination of evening, weekend, and online courses. (view more...) |
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 | |
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French National Pleads Guilty To International Stolen Art Conspiracy French national Bernard Jean Ternus pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport in interstate and foreign commerce four stolen paintings knowing that they were stolen, the Department of Justice Criminal Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced. Ternus also pleaded guilty today to visa fraud. (view more...) |
| Friday, July 11, 2008 | |
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MoMA Acquires Important Works By Jasper Johns And Martin Puryear The Museum of Modern Art has acquired Jasper Johns’ Tantric Detail trio of paintings and a major sculpture by Martin Puryear, Director Glenn D. Lowry announced today. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 10, 2008 | |
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CafePress Expands Its On-Demand Canvas By Acquiring Imagekind CafePress, the recognized leader of user-generated commerce, announced the acquisition of Imagekind, the fastest-growing user-generated site offering high-quality fine framed art. Since 1999 CafePress has changed the way people shop for user-generated products and has been working to refine and expand its offerings. Imagekind, known as the best-in-breed on-demand art provider, proved a perfect fit. The two companies share similar business models - providing customers with the opportunity to create, buy and sell their own unique merchandise. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 09, 2008 | |
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Peranakan Museum Welcomed 50,000 Visitors In Nine Weeks The Peranakan Museum, which officially opened to public on 26 April 2008, hit its 50,000 visitorship mark on 24 June 2008 – a mere nine weeks after its opening. The museum’s opening ceremony and festival (weekends between 26 April and 11 May 2008) alone attracted about 22,000 visitors. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, July 08, 2008 | |
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Nominees For Signature Art Prize Thirty-four artworks by artists from 12 countries in Asia Pacific have been nominated for the inaugural Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation Signature Art Prize. Representing Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, one of these artists will have the distinction in October of winning the highest art prize awarded by a jury in the Southeast Asian region. (view more...) |
| Friday, July 04, 2008 | |
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The Sound Of Art Relaunches Website For Art Buying Community The Sound of Art is proud to announce the re-launching of their website www.soundofart.net. The new site was designed by celebrated SOA artist M. Tony Peraltaand has morphed into the online arm of the SOA movement. The site has been crafted to function as an innovative, interactive and central repository for all things SOA providing the public with a tech-cool vehicle for receiving up to the date information on SOA artists, events, and happenings. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 03, 2008 | |
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Art/Design Dean Selected As NY Arts Foundation Fellow Joseph S. Lewis III, dean of the School of Art & Design at Alfred University, was awarded a $7,000, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship in photography. He is one of 144 artists, out of an applicant pool of 4,500, to receive the distinction. The NYFA is New York’s leading provider of unrestricted funding to individual artists. This year’s NYFA Fellows include architects, choreographers, composers, fiction writers, painters, photographers, playwrights/screenwriters, and video artists. Peer panels assembled according to each of 16 artistic disciplines selected the Fellows. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, July 02, 2008 | |
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Piasa Important Auction Results In Paris On Friday 20 June, assisted by experts Elisabeth Marechaux-Laurentin, Thierry Picard and François Lorenceau, PIASA's sale of Important 19th/20th Century Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture yielded a premium-inclusive €2,244,355, to be 90% sold. (view more...) |
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