In appreciation for a group of paintings that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is lending next year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is reciprocating with paintings from the Hudson River School. The Hudson River School is one of the […]
Daily Archives: June 16, 2009
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New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Although the six artists represent diverse points of view, working methods, and pictorial modes ranging from abstract to representational, […]
Lower Belvedere 9 June to 11 October 2009 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 – 1865) was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or […]
The Polish Connection 16 June – 27 September 2009 In 1790 the last King of Poland, Stanislaw Augustus Poniatowski, commissioned two art dealers, who later became the Founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery, to buy a collection of paintings as Poland’s national collection. […]
Resident Brittany Jackson, honored as the grand prize illustrator winner at the 2008 annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards, is using part of her $5,000 winnings to continue her undergraduate studies at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies and is also working on […]