The Frist Art Museum has just announced that Seth Feman will replace its longtime CEO and Executive Director, Susan Edwards. Feman, who grew up in Nashville, has a Ph.D. and an MA from William & Mary, and an undergraduate degree from Vassar. He has worked for the past decade atRead More →
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 02/14/2022 (PRINCETON, NJ) — The Princeton Arts Council is now accepting submissions for STEEP: a national exhibition on the teapot, exploring the endless possibilities of the idea of a teapot. This year’s exhibition will be judged by ceramic artist and CAPRead More →
NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 02/14/2022 (PRINCETON, NJ) — The Princeton Arts Council is now accepting submissions for STEEP: a national exhibition on the teapot, exploring the endless possibilities of the idea of a teapot. This year’s exhibition will be judged by ceramic artist and CAPRead More →
He is a gifted visual artist, but Oliver Lee Jackson has the added ability to use language to provide a unique perspective to viewing art. His talk about what drives him to create sheds light on what artists set out to achieve with their personal creative responses to the worldRead More →
The Swindon Museum and Art Gallery will host three new exhibitions and a series of art lectures this year. As part of its Art on Tour programme, exhibitions will be installed at the Steam Museum, the Civic Offices and the Highworth Museum featuring over 50 paintings, prints and ceramics fromRead More →
With museums and galleries officially reopening across San Diego — fingers crossed — 2022 looks set to be a full calendar year of programming and exhibits. There is certainly a high profile reopening in the new year, but however grand it is, it will be the art on display thatRead More →
1. Rembrandt at the Crawford The reopening of art galleries across the country this summer has been a welcome relief for those long bored of watching Portrait Artist of the Year on TV. One of the most popular exhibitions was Rembrandt in Print, which opened at the Crawford Art GalleryRead More →
I will remember 2021 as a year of reopenings and looking back. On the former, not only have many museums and galleries reopened after closing for months during the pandemic, but one institution in Balboa Park has unveiled its large, redesigned space. We also lost a local legend just beforeRead More →
Meanwhile, the sale of works of art from public collections has continued, a lingering impact of the pandemic given the looser disposal rules approved by the Association of Art Museum Directors in the spring. 2020. And, in case anyone has forgotten, when 2021 began, the United States was in theRead More →
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At a luncheon today in the Sapphire Ballroom at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, the Audain Award for the most distinguished artists of the British Columbia was awarded to James Hart. Hart is a hereditary chief of the Eagle Clan ofRead More →
The visual arts festival has started again. Did you miss your invitation? No sweating. The party continues. Art museums and art groups across the region are once again exhibiting in the real world – and not just virtually. They started this spring and plan to keep it going for asRead More →
Some of the most ambitious local programming derailed by the pandemic was originally planned in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition. The brainchild of BAMPFA curator Apsara DiQuinzio, this consortium grew out of the 2016 presidential election and the 2017 Women’s March, ultimately involving more than 100 arts organizations acrossRead More →
ART OFFERS Notable artists represented at the July auction include Brooklyn-based artist KAWS, who has become known for his work in art and popular culture that has attracted many markets. KAWS’ URGE wallet, consisting of color serigraphs on Saunders Waterford paper (lot 20; estimate: $40,000-60,000), will be on offer. theRead More →
Over a century of painstaking collecting by two ardent and prolific artists/collectors has produced a great collection of artwork in the Walla Walla Valley. A rare opportunity to view these collected works that have been hidden from the public will be offered with a free viewing from 4-7 p.m. onRead More →
Brad Pitt is known for his admiration for Banksy, while P. Diddy is amassing a collection of works by Kerry James Marshall. Buying high-end artwork is one of the main ways celebrities increase their investments. Much like stocks, art gains value over time, building the net worth of the individualRead More →
SARATOGA SPRINGS – As part of a celebration of the reintroduction of visual art for live public viewing and as a delayed celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is sharing its collection of art with six other institutions inRead More →
Get the latest news from Syracuse delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. As you walk through the large exhibition hall of the Everson Museum of Art, Japanese ceramic artworks are displayed in various display cases, hung on the walls and lined up along shelves. Panels onRead More →
A team of MIT researchers has created an algorithm to identify similar works of art. Their work could help drive innovation in datasets, survey systems, and more. Image: MIT CSAIL In recent years, researchers have exploited computer algorithms for a multitude of applications in all sectors, including the arts. InRead More →
Episode 2 of “Ms. America,” the new TV show dramatizing the battle against the Equal Rights Amendment, features a glamorous evening at the Guggenheim Museum. It’s 1972 and Gloria Steinem is launching her new magazine, Ms.. She mingle, dance and then shop talk with another leader of the women’s movement,Read More →
Portrait of President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian… [+] Institution in Washington DC, Smartify app Smithsonian Institution Institutions that hold the world’s art have often been slow to create digital databases and user-friendly websites to display their collections (let alone retail them). The challengesRead More →
IIf all the artists in major American museums were represented by 100 people, 88 of them would be men. A large-scale study looked at major US museum collections and found that only 12% of artists in their collections are women. Data from the Tate galleries suggests that UK institutions areRead More →
A Williams College student hangs an artwork on loan from the WALLS program in his dorm room (photo by Julia Sabot, courtesy Williams College Museum of Art) As the fall semester draws to a close and, while skipping studying for finals, you plan to redecorate your sparse dorm, try thinkingRead More →
In Subject of discussionthe “snapshot” of Australian contemporary visual arts recently published by the Australia Council in 2014, it was surprising to find only one reference to the country’s 42 art galleries and university museums and no interviews with any of their professionals. Described as a glimpse into the “vibrantRead More →