4 September 2010, 4:23 pm
L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art is interested in running the city-owned Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Hollywood's Barnsdall Park, as the cash-starved city government tries to outsource eight arts facilities in hopes of saving about $1.3 million a year....... Read More »
4 September 2010, 2:33 pm
The Bhau Daji Lad museum is all set for a tech upgrade. While the revamped website ( http://bdlmuseum.org ) will also soon offer virtual tours, art and history lovers are already logging on to the museum’s Facebook page — Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum — to check out upcoming shows and ev... Read More »
3 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Twenty-five years ago a cult classic crawled from the muck -- "The Pond," John Gossage's unpretty answer to Henry David Thoreau's "Walden." It is a book of black-and-white photographs, a troubled narrative in pictures, a response (more or less) to a derelict pond behind a shopping center in... Museu... Read More »
3 September 2010, 6:29 pm
An exhibition of American and Native American works at the Montclair Art Museum, drawn from its own collection, spans more than 800 years.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 3:53 pm
The museum said it had pushed back the planned opening of its new site from April to September or October 2011.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 10:05 am
The Georgia Museum of Art, located on the University of Georgia campus, recently acquired two significant American paintings from the West Foundation Collection of Atlanta. The foundation gave Benjamin West’s Portrait of Captain Christopher Codrington Bethell (1769) and John Linton Chapman’s Via... Read More »
3 September 2010, 1:18 am
NORMAN — Visitors to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art may be familiar with the iconic painting by Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Alexander Reid.” For a limited time, visitors will have the opportunity to see two works by Van Gogh in the same museum in Oklahoma.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 3:37 pm
“Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.... Read More »
2 September 2010, 3:30 pm
Battered by the recession and the failure of Washington Mutual, the Seattle Art Museum has asked a court for permission to borrow up to $10 million from its endowment fund to avoid defaulting on its lease.... Read More »
1 September 2010, 10:04 pm
BLADE STAFF The Toledo Museum of Art will kick off its Great Performances series of free Great Gallery concerts on Sept. 12 with Alice Petersen and Friends: A Program of Baroque Music, at 3 p.m. Petersen is the founder and director of Musica Antigua de Toledo, a group dedicated to the promotion and ... Read More »
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