Series puts spotlight on imagemaker
Showing now at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas through March 17, 2019, “FOCUS: Dirk Braeckman” are photographs of this Ghent-based artist (b. 1958, Eeklo, Belgium) which have…
At the Museums dept
Painter is the lead of new show
Viewing Thursday, February 7 through May 5, 2019, “Emily Mae Smith / MATRIX 181†features experimental art, performance art and explore new developments in painting. Marking the first MATRIX…
A new look at ‘identity’
“Stony the Road We Trod” is an exhibition featuring works by African American artists in the Georgia Museum of Art Museum’s permanent collection and Leo Twiggs, the 2019 Larry…
Illustrator works are expressive
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, “Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective” opens at the University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington. Featuring more than 100 original artworks and prints, this show…
Italian artist’s works to debut at museum
Organized by Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee by Executive Director Susan H. Edwards, “Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization” is this Italian artist first North American museum exhibition. Opening on Saturday, February…
Flower bouquets to color region
The North Carolina Museum of Art hosts its fifth annual Art in Bloom from Thursday, March 21 to the 24th. The show features more than 50 floral designers from around…
New ‘guard’ to watch over museum
After an extensive search, Susan Turner is the new Executive Director of Terre Haute, Indiana Children’s Museum on January 1, 2019. “For the past 30-years, the Terre Haute Children’s Museum…
Abstract works to come ashore
Opening on Saturday, February 23 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut and remaining on view through May 19, 2019, “Sean Scully: Landline” exhibition marks the…
Masterworks set for show
The Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee will open Saturday, February 2 with exhibitions from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts consisting of 19th and early 20th century French art…
Exhibition lineup inked
The Newfields: A Place for Nature & the Arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art will showcase a diverse group of art exhibitions in 2019. For more detailed information on…
Tsar show flows with history
“The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II” is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens and remains on view through March 17, 2019. This exhibition focuses on the reigns…
Photos capture roots of Arizona
In collaboration with the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation and Arizona Highways magazine, the Scottsdale’s Museum of the West has on exhibit, “Photographs by Barry M. Goldwater: The Arizona Highways…
Legends’ works on view
The first of two presentations of American works on paper is on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, “American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper…
Icon show making worldwide impact
Making its worldwide tour 15th stop, the “Roads of Arabia”, a collection of rare historic artifacts from the Arabian Peninsula is on exhibit at the Louvre Abu Dhabin to showcase…
Show of taste will be real
Through filmed interviews, art installations, utensils, tools, recipes and food, scheduled for Friday, February 22, 2019, “What Why How We Eat” will be an exhibition about the real food…
Works in Smithsonian gallery
Beth Cavener Stichter of Portage, Ohio is one of four artists exhibiting in the 2007 Renrick Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Lloyd E. Herman…
Visual bonds of humanity
ANCHORAGE, AK (AAPDN) – Currently on view at the Anchorage Museum through April 2018, “Neighbors: Portraits by John Raymond Mireles” are his photographs of people up-close, full of character and…
Exhibit offers ‘spinning’ works of art
ATHENS, GA – (AAPNW) – “To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture” opens Saturday, January 21, 2017 at the Georgia Museum of Art through April 16,…
Works roar with power and beauty
PITTSBURGH, PA – (AAPNW) – Opening Friday, February 17, 2017 at the Andy Warhol Museum, “Firelei Báez: Bloodlines” features 15 works, including four new works that are exhibited in…
Two masterpieces join in show
HARTFORD, CT – (PNAN) – Two monumental scroll paintings by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) will be reunited for the first time in more than 130 years at the…
Museum celebrates quirks of cabin fever
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – (PNAN) – Prolonged cold and darkness drive Northerners into their homes, and often into themselves. This shared experience across Northern latitudes is known as cabin fever…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: New Mexico Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through March 12, 2017. Small Wonders SANTA FE, NM – (PNAN) – Selection of small contemporary photographic work are several…
Major work added to collection
The Andy Warhol Museum has acquired an early and important Warhol Pop art painting to add to its collection. Warhol’s “Do It Yourself” (Sailboats), painted in 1962 is one…
CT: Hartford
WHERE: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. WHEN: Opening Saturday, September 10 and on view through December 11, 2016. The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the…
GA: Athens
WHERE: Georgia Museum of Art. WHEN: Opens Saturday, September 17 and on view through December 11, 2016. Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883–1950 This show will feature…
MI: Detroit
WHERE: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. WHEN: Goes on view Friday, September 9, 2016 through January 1, 2017. Note: An Artist’s Talk is set for Saturday, September 10 at…
Museum one of the bests
The highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums was awarded to the Indianapolis Museum of Art by the American Alliance of Museums. Museums belonging to AAM must undergo a reaccreditation…
Detroit museum given Fellows funds
The Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit (MOCAD) has been awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to support Curatorial Fellows to begin in January 2017. The Ford Curatorial Fellowship provides…
East Coast museum adds to collection
New works of art by major artists, a 17th-century Dutch landscape by Salomon Jacobsz van Ruysdael and a portrait by contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley, were acquired by the Wadsworth…
Viewers can expect works of power
Going on view, Friday, June 3, 2016 and featuring the work of 60 different artists, this exhibition includes powerful, representative work by some of the biggest names in the…
Major show soon to open
Opening at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday, June 4, 2016, this major international exhibition will feature two significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries:…
Museum takes step towards $$$ stability
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will pay off more than $17 million in outstanding debt by the end of 2016. This will mark the first time since 2004 that the…
FL: Miami
WHERE: Frost Art Museum WHEN: Opens Saturday, May 14, 2016. The Summer of Women BRIEF ABOUT: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum launches The Summer of Women with powerful…
‘Eyes+Hands’ forge a new style
On view through July 11, 2016 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, the exhibition, “The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film” explores how…
‘Tribute show’ to the greatest
Opening Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at the musée du quai Branly, located along the Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the exhibition, “Matahoata, Arts…
In the ‘big top arena’ once again
Last exhibited in 1986, at the Museum of International Folk Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Morris Miniature Circus is a 3/8″-scale model of a 1920s circus, built…
IMA to be in full ‘bloom’
Guests to the gardens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art will be among the first to discover more than 70,000 blooming bulbs, including 20,000 new tulips planted last fall…
Miller’s ‘skins’ to be showcased
Opening Friday, April 1, 2016 at the Missoula Art Museum in Montana, features the talent and creative process in the form of a site-specific installation entitled, “Abbie Miller: Exit Strategies”…
SPS to be celebrated
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Frank Hartley Anderson: Forging the Southern Printmakers Society” from Saturday, March 26 to June 19,…
Homer and Wyeth works bought
The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine recently acquired new works by Winslow Homer, “An Open Window” and “River Cove” by Andrew Wyeth. “An Open Window” is one…
Ligare show on Georgia’s mind
As the winter starts to seem long and cold, even in Georgia, opening on Saturday, February 13 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, visitors…
Living show to ‘bloom’
Set to opening on Friday, February 19, 2016 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in the Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse, “Color Me Orchid” exhibition is noted to be a…
Show to reveal its ‘roughness’
Opening at the Anchorage Museum on Friday, February 5, 2016, “Stick and Puck” is a solo exhibition of work by artist Michael Conti. The exhibit will examine hockey from…
A journey into spaces and places
Opening at the Springville Museum of Art on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, “Here, There, and Everywhere” will examine how spaces become places; thusly, locations invested with meaning. Works of…
A show of porcelain works
Opening Saturday, January 2016, a new exhibition, “Miniature World in White Gold: Meissen Porcelain by Johann Joachim Kaendler” will explore the important career of this innovative porcelain modeler at the…
Kailukiak takes ‘Budney Choice’
Going on view February 5 through April 10, 2016 at the Anchorage Museum, “All Alaska Biennial†celebrates the contemporary work of Alaska artists with works that explore the North, its…
Show focuses on Needleworks
On view through February 28, 2016 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, “Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality’” focuses on ornamental needlework created…
Passionate, fiery, sensual, intense show
“Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico” is on view at the Museum of International Folk Art through September 11, 2016, showing more than 150 objects which not only celebrates,…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: New Mexico Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through February 21, 2016 in conjunction with O’Keeffe in Process exhibit. An American Modernism This exhibit explores the quest by…
Homegrown: What’s it all about
On view through September 11, 2016, “Our Story” is an exhibition at the Anchorage Museum featuring work by Alaska native artists who blend traditional and contemporary techniques to explore…