The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to announce it is the recipient of a $300,000 matching grant from The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation. This gift will create a strong foundation for the Everson 2010 general operating budget, and encourage [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, on May 1st, officially kicked off the public phase of its Campaign for the Gardner with a goal of raising the final $45 million in order to complete the total $180 million initiative. The Campaign [Read More]
A Pablo Picasso painting, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust had belonged to the late Los Angeles collectors Frances and Sidney Brody. Painted in 1932, it set a new record for the most expensive art work sold at auction, fetching $106.5m, at Christie’s [Read More]
The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired a spectacular Monet Masterpiece thanks to the generosity of Montreal fine arts’ connoisseur, philanthropist and National Gallery of Canada Foundation patron Marjorie Bronfman. Claude Monet, “Rock Needle Seen through the Porte d’Aval, Étretat”, 1886. [Read More]
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology presents a significant collection of Huichol art from the early part of the last century in Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. The exhibition runs through March 13, 2011. Huichol Art and [Read More]
The Salmagundi Club will host the third annual American Masters at SCNY on May 7th, featuring many of the nation’s finest artists – from Richard Schmid to John Stobart. Proceeds from the show and sale will benefit the Salmagundi Club, one of [Read More]
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University presents the summer exhibition EyePoppers: Big & Bold from the Kresge Art Museum Collection, featuring 31 large scale paintings and sculpture from the museum collection. The exhibition is on through July 30, 2010. This exhibition [Read More]
The Jewish Museum will present South African Photographs: David Goldblatt, an exhibition of 150 black-and-white silver gelatin prints taken between 1948 and 2009, from May 2 through September 19, 2010. The photographs on view focus on South Africa’s human landscape in the [Read More]
Newbury Street’s International Poster Gallery announces “Pioneers of Modernism: Poster Masters of the 20th Century”, a revealing look at how pioneering artists changed the rules of poster making throughout the century. The exhibition of 35 groundbreaking poster designs is now on view [Read More]
Marc Chagall is recognized by all as a 20th century master of modern art. Chagall’s distinctive contribution to modern art lays largely in his unique blend of color and dreamlike images. He developed a personal symbolic language, presented in a palette of [Read More]
The grand opening celebration of the largest expansion project in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts takes place on Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2, with an array of free special events and activities, including a ribbon cutting, [Read More]
Building on the approach the Denver Art Museum (DAM) pioneered in 1925, when it became the first American museum to collect Native American objects as art rather than artifacts, this summer the museum will begin the renovation and complete reinstallation of its [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong announces its Spring sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on 30 May at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 130 quality works spanning the history and geography in the Southeast Asian [Read More]
Fascinating photographs of London Women’s Pub Outings in Battersea and Clapham taken by Scottish photographer Grace Robertson in the 1950s are being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. The four images [Read More]