Norman Rockwell Museum Shares Decade-Long Digitization Project With Worldwide Audience

STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- Norman Rockwell Museum announces the online debut of ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network), the public interface of its ongoing digitization efforts. Effective today (January 6), Visitors to the Museum’s website, will be to look through thousands of Norman Rockwell’s reference photos, preliminary sketches and paintings, and other items from the Museum’s art and archival collections. Initiated by Norman Rockwell Museum in 2003, ProjectNORMAN is a ten-year, comprehensive online publishing project, intended to preserve, catalogue, [...]

Prado Museum Loses Visitors in 2010 but More Students and Tourists Visit the Museum

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado, in 2010, concluded the third consecutive year surpassing the 2.7 million annual visitors, a figure that was reached for the first time since the opening of its expansion. The final number of visitors received by the Museum during this year, 2,732,000, has been almost equal to that recorded in 2009, 2,764,155, and in 2008, 2,759,029 the first full year period of the expansion in full operation. As for the reasons to visit, a 57.58% of [...]

Carnegie Museum of Art Director’s Choice Book Features Highlights of Entire Collection

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announced the publication of Director’s Choice: Carnegie Museum of Art, the latest in a new series of books by Scala Publishers introducing readers to the collections of the world’s great museums through the unique voices and perspectives of their directors. Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, has selected 37 objects that not only “resonate intellectually and emotionally” with her, but also represent the nature and scope of [...]

The Wallace Collection Announces Plans for Newly-Refurbished Dutch Galleries

LONDON.- In early 2012 the Wallace Collection will unveil the newly-refurbished Dutch galleries in the East wing galleries of Hertford House, the first stage of refurbishment of the more traditional, top-lit galleries to add to the sumptuous twelve domestic rooms housing the eighteenth century French collections. Along with grand plans for the Great Gallery (to be completed in 2014), they will mark the completion of the gallery refurbishment programme and creation of the glazed courtyard and additional spaces, achieved by [...]

‘An Open Mind’ is the Title of the New Jubilee Publication by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

VADUZ.- “An Open Mind” is the title of the new jubilee publication by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein summarising the history of the institution and the exhibitions and events it has organ-ised in the first ten years of its existence. The prestigious volume, made possible by the generous support of the Centrum Bank Foundation, is published by Benteli Verlag, Berne. The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, housed in a building that was largely financed by private donations, was officially inaugurated in November 2000. With the [...]

The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation Acquires Three Works by Francesco Clemente

MUNICH.- Francesco Clemente’s works “Sound and Shadow, I–III”, the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation’s most recent acquisitions, were painted in 2002 in New Mexico and depict a desert landscape in vastly changing moods – possibly an allusion to different times of day. The central motif that dominates the composition is modified slightly and can be interpreted as a loose combination of huge and abnormally shaped hands and feet. The body and head, where sensuousness and emotion are located, have – [...]

Museum Ludwig Acquires Set of Editions Made by Scottish Artist Lucy McKenzie

COLOGNE.- Museum Ludwig has purchased a complete set of the editions made by Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (1977) and is showing them in the eleventh exhibition in its series “Graphic Collection / Museum Ludwig“. To mark this first presentation of all the works, the artist produced a special mural. Lucy McKenzie, Exhibition view Lucy McKenzie. The Editions. Museum Ludwig Köln, 10.12.2010 – 26.06.2011 © Lucy McKenzie. Foto: Museum Ludwig / Nicola Weber. The editions by this young Scottish artist could [...]

Magritte Museum in Brussels Announces Temporary Closure Due to Improvements

BRUSSELS.- Due to improvement works of the HVAC installations (Heath Ventilation & Airco) the Musée Magritte Museum will be closed to the public from January 3rd to 31st, 2011. These works have been considered necessary following the recent technological developments. On this occasion some renovation works will be caried out in the exhibition rooms (among others painting works). All these works guarantee the conservation rules for this remarkable collection. King Albert II of Belgium and Queen Paola look at the [...]

Carnegie Museum Announces Acquisitions in Neoclassical and Contemporary Art

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announce two major acquisitions representing the museum’s strengths in 19th century neoclassical art and contemporary art. The works are Terpsichore, Muse of Lyric Poetry, 1812, an exceptionally rare sculpture by Antonio Canova, a leading artist of 19th century Europe; and five works, which together comprise a single installation, by one of the most provocative American artists to emerge in the last decade, Gedi Sibony. “While Canova’s Terpsichore and Sibony’s five pieces were made in [...]

A New Cultural Landmark Opens in Doha: Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art

DOHA.- For its inauguration, Mathaf presents three exhibitions featuring historic works of Arab modernism and many newly commissioned works, which will be on view at two sites in Doha, Qatar. Mathaf opens its new building with Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions that will survey its unparalleled permanent collection, on view from December 30, 2010 (closing date to be announced). Sajjil, an Arabic word meaning the art of recording, features more than [...]

Museo del Prado Publishes First Multi-Interactive, Online Video Relating to Art

MADRID.-The Museo del Prado published the first multi-interactive, online video relating to art. Entitled “Rubens 360º”, this initiative, which is a pioneering one in the context of museum websites, is another landmark within the Prado’s mission to make its collections and exhibitions accessible beyond the Museum’s physical space, while also expanding and increasing its educational and informational activities. This new initiative has been made possible through the support of Telefónica, Benefactor Sponsor of the Visitor Attention programme and has been created [...]

In New Commitment, Polymer to Break New Ground at Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin

RACINE, WI.- The Racine Art Museum (RAM) in Racine, Wisconsin, announced the museum’s recent commitment to establishing a permanent collection of polymer jewelry, beads and sculptural objects. As part of this resolution, the museum is organizing a large group exhibition opening the Fall 2011. Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads will open at RAM on October 21, 2011. On display through February 5, 2012, the show emphasizes the development of polymer as an expressive medium for artwork in recent [...]

The foundations of the MACBA and La Caixa (Caixa Forum) merge their funds

Barcelona, Catalonia. - Four months ago, in July, the MACBA and the La Caixa Foundation signed an agreement merging their funds. Last Friday presented the roadmap that gives content to the agreement of collaboration. With this merger become one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Europe. Agreement will allow joint use of both institutions totaling 4,450 works worth about 160 million euros. There will be four shows between October 2011 and late 2011, starting with an exhibition of sculpture in [...]

Detroit Institute of Arts Opens New Gallery Devoted to Ancient Middle Eastern Art

DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will open a new gallery devoted to the arts of the Ancient Middle East on Dec. 22 that will showcase the ancient cultural heritage of what we today call Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Yemen and Armenia. A favorite with the public, the serpent/dragon panel from the Ishtar gate of Babylon, will be back on display. “Many visitors have asked what happened to our dragon,” said Graham W. J. Beal, DIA director. “We are [...]

The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Latest Works Approved by the Collections Committee

CLEVELAND, OH.- – A rare portrait miniature by nineteenth-century British artist John Linnell, a boldly designed Op Art painting by Cleveland artist Edwin Mieczkowski and a fifteenth-century engraving of which only five exist are among the latest works approved by the Collections Committee of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees. C. Griffith Mann, Ph.D, deputy director and chief curator states, “These acquisitions reflect the museum’s willingness to seek acquisition opportunities in public auctions, to build on historic strengths of [...]