| Saturday, June 28, 2008 | |
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Education Management LLC Announces Opening AI In Kansas City Education Management LLC announced the addition of The Art Institutes International – Kansas City to its Art Institutes system of schools. The school will be the first location of The Art Institutes in the state of Kansas. With its first day of classes planned for August 21, 2008, The Art Institutes International – Kansas City, a branch of The Art Institute of Phoenix, will occupy approximately 32,000 square feet at 8208 Melrose Drive in Overland Park, Kansas. The school will begin enrolling students immediately. (view more...) |
| Thursday, June 26, 2008 | |
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Metropolitan Museum Corporate Benefit Breaks Fundraising Record Event Honoring Kenneth D. Lewis of Bank of America for Arts and Culture Leadership Raises $1.3 Million Bank of America is Sponsor of Met's Major Summer Exhibition J. M. W. Turner, on view July 1 – September 1. In recognition of his outstanding leadership in support of the arts and community enrichment, Kenneth D. Lewis, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Bank of America Corporation, was honored at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2008 Corporate Benefit on Monday, June 23. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | |
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Tickets On Sale For King Tut Exhibition At Dallas Museum Of Art Tickets for the encore tour of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," beginning at the Dallas Museum of Art, will become available for public purchase at 10am CT, today. Following the success of the first U.S. tour, which drew nearly 4 million visitors and broke records at each of the four museums it visited from June 2005 through September 2007, the exhibition will return from its current London engagement to open at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) on October 3, 2008. The exhibition will remain on view through May 17, 2009. (view more...) |
| Monday, June 23, 2008 | |
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"Untitled" by Elizabeth Fischer Is it not strange to put time and effort into a piece and then simply send it off as completed—without a title attached to it. It’s unheard-of to leave works untitled in when it comes to movies, books, and even music albums, but for whatever reason it’s uncomfortably prominent in the contemporary art industry. The fact that one of the most fundamental elements for creating works of art has been so regularly dismissed really goes to show that anything goes when it comes to contemporary art. While I am a true admirer of the barriers broken down by the contemporary art world, I must say that the absence of titles for hundreds and thousands of works is not something that the contemporary art industry should be proud of. (view more...) |
| Saturday, June 21, 2008 | |
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OH LA LA! C’EST COUTURE! At Christie's Christie's New York kicks off the summer season in high-gear with a selection of high fashion vintage couture pieces to be sold in the Interiors July 1-2 sale. The sale includes a special tribute to the late legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent with an offering of clothing and jewels spanning nearly every decade of Saint Laurent’s career, from a 1958 Yves Saint Laurent for Dior cocktail dress, to a trademark Jackie-O favored YSL Rive Gauche camel cable knit and fox fur trim sweater from the 1970s, to a floral-form necklace of goldtone metal, resin and rhinestones shown for the Spring/Summer 1990 collections. (view more...) |
| Thursday, June 19, 2008 | |
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Luce Foundation Award US$200,000 To VMFA The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for reinstalling and reinterpreting its collection of historical American art – from painting, sculpture and works on paper to the decorative arts of furniture, silver, glass and ceramics. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | |
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New Museum Organizes Elizabeth Peyton Survey International Tour The New Museum announced that it will present the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton’s work, including paintings, drawings, and prints. "Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton" premieres at the New Museum and will be on view from October 8, 2008 through January 11, 2009, and will then travel to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The survey will include more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years. Peyton’s oeuvre can be read in chapters, each of which feature portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and fleeting passions. "Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton" will offer a visual biography of the artist, and at the same time create a snapshot of the popular culture of the past decade. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | |
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Berman Museum At Ursinus College Prepares Fall Exhibitions Two exhibitions focusing on the material manifestations of women’s identity will open at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College this fall. "Women’s Work? Two Exhibitions Looking at Women’s Bodies of/as Work" will bring together 19th century quilts from the collection of well-known collector Judy Roche, with the textile and body-based works of contemporary artists Tamar Stone and Christine LoFaso. (view more...) |
| Monday, June 16, 2008 | |
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Theater At Yerba Buena Center For The Arts To Be Named Novellus Theater Novellus Systems and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco announced a long-term venue sponsorship to mark the 10th anniversary of their relationship. During the past decade, Novellus has been a regular donor to YBCA, in addition to using the venue for product launches and investor meetings during the semiconductor equipment industry’s annual exhibition. Included in the sponsorship agreement are the naming rights to the YBCA’s 750-seat Theater, which will be re-named the Novellus Theater. (view more...) |
| Sunday, June 15, 2008 | |
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22 Museums And Galleries In UK Benefit From Heritage Lottery Fund The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced grants totalling £3million for 22 museum and gallery acquisition projects across the UK. These awards come under the Fund’s Collecting Cultures scheme which is designed to help support acquisitions, curatorial skills, research and increased public involvement. (view more...) |
| Friday, June 13, 2008 | |
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Young Native American Artists Invited To Verizon Poster Contest Verizon and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC) are inspiring young Native American artists to visually express their hopes and dreams for their tribal communities and enter a youth poster contest this month. The contest, themed "For All My Relations: Family Culture and Community", will award top prizes of $350 savings bonds in two categories for artists aged 10-13 and 14-17. Second and third prizes of $100 and $50 savings bonds will also be awarded in each age category. (view more...) |
| Thursday, June 12, 2008 | |
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University Of Virginia Receives Gift from John and Tussi Kluge Longtime University of Virginia donor and businessman John Kluge and his wife, Tussi, have donated 16 Aboriginal paintings from their private collection to the University's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. The gift adds to the exceptional holdings of the museum, which was established in 1997 through a generous gift from Kluge's private collection and ranks as one of the finest groups of works by Australian Aboriginal artists in the world. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | |
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Photographer Sandy Skoglund Presents Distinguished Lecture At The McNay As part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the McNay Art Museum, surrealist Sandy Skoglund will present two lectures on June 12, 2008, in the new Chiego Lecture Hall. Skoglund’s presentation, titled "Reality Under Siege", will take audience members on a journey through a collision of colorful and contrasting worlds central to her sculpture and photographs. In order to accommodate the large crowds that her lectures draw, Skoglund will speak at 2 and 7pm. (view more...) |
| Monday, June 09, 2008 | |
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Selection Of Artworks Inaugurates New Galleries At MoMA The Museum of Modern Art inaugurates new galleries on the second floor with "Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection", an informal survey of the widespread impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art over the past century. One of the seminal innovations and most enduring legacies of modernism, geometric abstraction—art based on simple geometric shapes—has surfaced and resurfaced across geographical boundaries, particularly in Europe and the Americas. Artists representing various movements and geographical backgrounds are featured, from Cubist, Dada, and Russian avant-garde artists of the 1910s and 1920s, through artists associated with Minimalism, Op art, and hard-edge abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s, to artists who have emerged in more recent years and continue to exploit the infinite potential of simple geometries (view more...) |
| Sunday, June 08, 2008 | |
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The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades Of Acquisitions To celebrate Philippe de Montebello's 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the curators of the Museum announced plans to organize an exhibition of approximately 300 of the more than 84,000 works of art acquired during his tenure. This unique project – The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, which will be on view in The Tisch Galleries from October 24, 2008, through February 1, 2009 – will be a collaboration of the curators currently working in the Museum's 17 curatorial departments. (view more...) |
| Friday, June 06, 2008 | |
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Delta Serves As Official Airline Of Art Exhibition’s First-Ever U.S. Tour Delta Air Lines announced it will transport the internationally-acclaimed art exhibition, "Breaking the Veils: Women Artists from the Islamic World", on the airline’s inaugural flight from Amman, Jordan to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on Friday, June 6. The exhibit includes 72 works of art from 51 women representing more than 20 Islamic countries, including Indonesia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. (view more...) |
| Thursday, June 05, 2008 | |
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Famous Van Gogh's Paintings At The Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit side by side two of Vincent van Gogh’s most renowned paintings, "Cypresses" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and "The Starry Night" (Museum of Modern Art, New York). Completed in June 1889, during his yearlong confinement at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, these two paintings exemplify the work of this modern master at the height of his creativity. (view more...) |
| Monday, June 02, 2008 | |
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Mimi Gates Announces Retirement As Director Of The Seattle Art Museum Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Director Mimi Gates announced that she will step aside on July 1, 2009, after fifteen years of visionary leadership. Gates, who joined the museum in 1994, will remain in her position through the end of June 2009 to ensure a smooth transition to new leadership. SAM’s Board of Trustees is in the process of forming a search committee to determine a successor for Gates. In addition, the Trustees announced today that she will be named Director Emeritus upon her departure in honor of her extraordinary accomplishments at SAM. (view more...) |
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