9 new results for art curator collector museum foundation

News 9 new results for art curator collector museum foundation

Trender: Worcester Art Museum Director: Matthias Waschek GoLocal Worcester Interestingly enough, I only started working in the field of contemporary art since I moved to St. Louis, MO, where I was appointed director of the Pulitzer Foundation for theArts – before that, my study of art history stopped before the end of World War II. 2. What drew you to the Worcester Art Museum? Lots of things drew me to WAM and to Worcester. First and foremost, the level of the museum collection, which is outstanding for a Museum of this size, played a huge role in my decision to move to Worcester. See all stories on this topic » GoLocal Worcester

Museum exhibition frames history's take on war Emory University News and Events ... "The Disasters of War" series. Courtesy of the Blaffer Foundation. Print ... "It's hard for us to comprehend life without photography, television and the Internet," says Andi McKenzie, assistantcurator of the works on paper collection at the Michael C. Carlos Museum. But in the centuries prior to the ... Another talk will be given by James Clifton, director of the Sarah Campbell BlafferFoundation and curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine ArtsHouston, on Sept. 20. Clifton is the curator of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Back on the Map: 'Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan' at the Museum of Modern Art GalleristNY Since the museum opened its Yoshio Taniguchi-designed building eight years ago, this tricky atrium has foiled curators and artists alike, but the team responsible for the Boetti show—MoMA's Christian Rattemeyer, along with Lynne Cooke, chief curator at Madrid's Reina Sofia, and Mark Godfrey, curator at London's Tate Modern—has transformed it into an ... (For a retrospective, “Game Plan” has a surprisingly light touch with the large-scale ballpoint pen drawings for which the artist is best known amongcollectors.) ... See all stories on this topic » GalleristNY

New Hood exhibit will display Australian Aboriginal art The Dartmouth “Crossing Cultures,” an exhibition of Aboriginal Australian art from the Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art that was recently gifted to the Hood Museum of Art, will open at Dartmouth on Sept. 15. The exhibition will feature works made by members of the Aboriginal communities from 15 different parts of Australia, ranging from the remote desert to the urban center of Sydney, according to exhibition curator Stephen Gilchrist, who is also the Hood's curator of indigenous Australian art. See all stories on this topic » The Dartmouth

Artist Pablo Cano Makes Toilets Float, Turns Tin Cans Into Treasures Fox News And more of it resides in public and private collections around the country: the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, FL; the Cintas Foundation in New York City; SUNY at New Paltz, NY; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Columbus Museum of Art in ... Bonnie Clearwater, MOCA'sdirector and chief curator, has said of Cano's work, “Each marionette is a complete sculpture in its own right that is exhibited in the museum in its inanimate state; but when their creator and grand puppeteer Cano performs them, the ... See all stories on this topic »

Vern Swanson's swan song at Springville Museum of Art Salt Lake Tribune Swanson, who is retiring this summer after 32 years as director of the respected museum in Utah's "Art City," believes "every painting has a story" — and has worked to make the Springville Museumof Art the place to tell them. "He has more enthusiasm ... Because of that philosophy, those who know him find it odd that an exhibit now hanging in one gallery, taken from his and Judy's personalcollection, has several modernist works, including that Birrell painting of returning war veterans. In his tenure, Swanson has ... See all stories on this topic »

Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.85 million for the National Museum of Scotland Art Daily The award of a *First Round pass for a grant of £4.85 million towards a £11.85 million project will enable National Museums to create eight new galleries to showcase its internationally important Science and Technology and European Art and Design collections. Following a ... Dr Gordon Rintoul,Director of National Museums Scotland commented, “We are absolutely delighted that the Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded funding for the next stage in our Masterplan for the National Museum of Scotland. This grant will ... See all stories on this topic »

Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity CBS News Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity. In this Wednesday, July 25 ... The oldest of the black dolls on display was sewn about 1850, said curator Joyce Stamps of Framingham, Mass., who put together the exhibit at the federation's request. Because cloth is fragile, ... Barbara Whiteman, who opened the Philadelphia Doll Museum in 1988, has said that before 1950, most dolls manufactured for black children had exaggerated, stereotypical features, or were white-featured dolls tinted brown. Mass-produced dolls ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Participating artists announced for Design Museum's Digital Crystal exhibition Art Daily Explaining the central premise of Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic,director of the Design Museum says: 'Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum explores the meaning of memory in the digital age, with the demise of the analogue era our relationship and connection with personal memory, photographs, diaries, letters, time and ephemera is changing.' Deyan continues: .... Art collector Herbert Vogel, who with his U.S. postal clerk salary built acollection, dies at 89 3.- London bus ... See all stories on this topic »