Tate has appointed Jessica Morgan as The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art. The post, which has been funded by the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, is for an initial three year period during which time she will mainly focus on acquisitions of contemporary and [Read More]
Dulwich Picture Gallery presents the first major UK Rosa exhibition since 1973. Open through 28 November 2010. Salvator Rosa (1615 – 1673), Lucrezia as Poetry, c. 1641. Hartford (CT), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Oil on canvas. 45 3/4 x 37 1/4in [Read More]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has appointed E. Carmen Ramos as its curator for Latino art. Ramos will be responsible for acquiring artworks for the museum’s permanent collection and producing a major exhibition and catalog based on the museum’s Latino holdings for [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art has acquired the Four Seasons in One Head (c. 1590), a rare and important masterpiece by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, on the occasion of the exhibition Arcimboldo, 1526 -1593: Nature and Fantasy, on view in the East Building, September [Read More]
The Board of Trustees announce the appointment of Dr. Michael W. Schantz as the Heckscher Museum of Art’s new Executive Director effective November 1. Michael has more than 25 years of experience as the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Woodmere [Read More]
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Latin American art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the vital collection of art it has amassed in a short time frame. Supported by a collecting [Read More]
Following nine months of comprehensive renovations, on September 26, 2010, the Art Institute of Chicago will reopen its suite of Japanese Art Galleries, now housed in the new Roger L. and Pamela Weston Wing of the museum, with a striking installation that [Read More]
To commemorate his 100th birthday, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin is showing the first comprehensive retrospective of this Bauhaus designer from 15 September to 8 November 2010, with 80 works from the areas of photography and typography. Hajo Rose experimented with a [Read More]
The Mulvane Art Museum invited Patrick Dougherty to design and build a site specific sculpture during November 2-20, 2009, on the Museum’s grounds on the campus of Washburn University. Dougherty, from Chapel Hill, NC, is internationally known for his unusual and dynamic [Read More]
The Boise Art Museum will present the exhibition CRITICAL MESSAGES: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment, open December 18, 2010 – April 10, 2011. The exhibition focuses on how a group of Northwest artists are currently responding to the heightened awareness of [Read More]
With CALIGULA, Sebastian Gögel (Leipzig) and Miron Schmückle (Berlin) create a highly fascinating interplay by immediately referencing each other’s work and through elaborate finesse and aggressive explorations of artistic means. Gögel’s monumental mixed-media-sculpture meets Schmückle’s artificial floral-insectoid constructions as Indian ink drawings [Read More]
Skinner, Inc’s American & European Paintings & Prints sale takes place on Friday, September 24th at noon in the Boston galler . Many fine works come to the sale from private collections, including pieces from New England artists, bronzes, sculptures as well [Read More]
This outstanding exhibition is Gabriel Orozco’s first at the Centre Pompidou, and the first opportunity to see his work in Paris since his exhibition “Clinton is Innocent” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1998. Open through 3 [Read More]
The China Institute Gallery presents Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language, open September 16 – December 12, 2010. Though China has had a long history in woodcuts and printing, the western woodcut, printed with oil-based ink, was adapted [Read More]