DC Moore Gallery Relocates to a Dynamic and Spacious New Location in Chelsea

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announce they are relocating to 535 West 22nd Street. The spacious new gallery opens on January 15, 2011. The move to a dynamic new location in Chelsea provides DC Moore with the opportunity to expand its ongoing program of concurrently presenting contemporary and 20th century exhibitions. The new space designed by Andrew Ong features two exhibition galleries, including an expansive area with high ceilings that can accommodate large-scale works and a smaller room designed [...]

The Speed Art Museum Announces Thorntons Inc. Donates $1 Million for Expansion

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.- The Speed Art Museum announces a $1,000,000 donation from Thorntons Inc. to the Museum’s Changing Speed Capital Campaign. The Capital Campaign will fund the expansion and renovation of the Museum’s site in Louisville. The expansion will serve the community through new programming and increased space for educational initiatives, public events and additional gallery space to present the Speed’s remarkable art collection. Through the years, the Thornton family has been avid supporters of the visual and performing arts with this [...]

Michelle Obama Presents Highest Honors for Museums to Japanese American National Museum

LAS ANGELES, CA.- The Japanese American National Museum was presented the Institute of Museums and Library Services’ (IMLS) National Medal, the nation’s highest honor for museums, by First Lady Michelle Obama in ceremonies at the White House on Friday, December 17, 2010. The National Medal was accepted by National Museum President & CEO Akemi Kikumura Yano, Board Chairman Emeritus Ernest Doizaki, and community member Paul Takemoto. Institutions are presented with the National Medal by IMLS in recognition for their “extraordinary civic, educational, [...]

The National Gallery of Canada Creates Special Programs to Celebrate Winterlude

OTTAWA, B.C.- The National Gallery of Canada announced that it will add to the magic of the Winterlude celebrations by featuring additional special programming. This will take place during the second weekend of the festival on February 12 and 13 and will include a talk with internationally renowned sculptor Roxy Paine, a special pancake breakfast and a day of in and outdoor family activities. “Winterlude is a very popular festival with residents and visitors to the National Capital Region alike, said [...]

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Honorary Patrons Scheme Launched by Bryan Ferry

GATESHEAD.- Eight of the biggest names in art and music have pledged their support for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Antony Gormley, David Shrigley, Louise and Jane Wilson, Yoko Ono, Melvyn Bragg, Sting, Neil Tennant and Bryan Ferry have been unveiled as the first Honorary Patrons whose role will be to champion the Gateshead gallery. Legendary musician and lead singer of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry will become the first Honorary Patron to appear at the gallery when he hosts a special [...]

The Three Graces by Lucas Cranach Join the Collections of the Louvre Museum

PARIS.- A month after the launch of the campaign to acquire Lucas Cranach’s Three Graces, the Louvre has raised 1 million euros from over 5000 donors. This enabled Lucas Cranach’s Three Graces to enter into the Louvre’s collections. The Louvre would like to thank all those who have taken part in this extraordinary successful campaign! On November 13, the Louvre museum launched a fundraising campaign to acquire The Three Graces by Lucas Cranach. This small oil on wood painting shows [...]

Renovation and Extension of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp to Last from 2011 to 2017

ANTWERP.- The renovation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) will start in September 2011 and last until the autumn of 2017 rather than 2014 as previously announced. The main reasons for the longer duration are the scope and complexity of the work, combined with some complications revealed during the preparatory phase. The renovation and extension of the 19th-century museum in Antwerp ’s Zuid (South) district is a complex undertaking. It encompasses not only the replacement of all [...]

Pair of Paintings by Sir Peter Lely Reunited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery with New Acquisition

LONDON.- In time for its 2011 Bicentenary year, Dulwich Picture Gallery announced its acquisition of the portrait of Bartholomew Beale by Sir Peter Lely. The portrait is now reunited with its counterpart, Sir Peter Lely’s A Boy as a Shepherd, one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Bartholomew Beale was obtained with generous help from the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art; The Monument Trust; the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund; The Hamish Parker [...]

Metropolitan Museum’s Exhibitions Stimulate $784 Million Economic Impact for City

NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of three acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions over the summer 2010 season—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity—generated $784 million in economic activity by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study noted that the [...]

PAFA Receives Unprecedented Gift of Art by Philadelphia Collector Linda Lee Alter

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced a gift of the collection of art by women from Philadelphia art collector and artist Linda Lee Alter. This important collection, formed by an extraordinary person with a clear vision of how collecting can make a difference, includes approximately 400 works of art spanning the 1910s to the present in all media and by a wide range of artists from the well-known to the underappreciated. Alice Neel, Investigation of Poverty [...]

The Georgia Museum of Art to Reopen with Weeklong Celebration in January 2011

ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will reopen with a weeklong celebration, Art Expands, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5. The museum has been closed since March 2009 for construction on its Phase II expansion and renovation project. GMOA broke ground on its expansion in 2009, after raising $20 million in private support to fund the entirety of construction. The addition to the existing facility will include more than 16,000 square feet in new galleries, [...]

17th-Century Spanish Sculpture, by Juan Martínez Montañés, Acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art

TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has added a major sculpture, The Infant Christ by foremost Spanish 17th-century sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés (1568–1649), to its collection. “The acquisition marks the first Spanish sculpture and the first polychromed wood sculpture from that period to enter the TMA collection,” said Museum Director Brian Kennedy. Montañés, who lived and worked in Seville his entire career, was esteemed in his day as “El Dios de la Madera,” the god of wood. He had [...]

Art Institute of Chicago Announces Major Acquisition of an Early 17th Century Painting

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announce a major acquisition of an early 17th-century painting by Ludovico Carracci, The Vision of Saint Francis (c. 1602). The work, acquired by the Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture at the museum, is the first painting by Ludovico Carracci to enter the collection. While the museum does hold a generous amount of works on paper by Ludovico and his cousins Annibale and Agostino, generally recognized as the artists who [...]

Louvre Pays Tribute to the 18th Century With a Special Series of Four Exhibitions

PARIS.- As part of its 2010–2011 season, the Louvre pays tribute to the 18th century with a special series of four exhibitions. The first of these, Paper Museums: Antiquity in Books, 1600–1800, opened in September, followed by The Louvre in the Age of Enlightenment, 1750–1792, Antiquity Rediscovered: Innovation and Resistance in the 18th Century, and concluding with Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), which opens in January 2011. Organized around a selection of more than one hundred and fifty major works, Antiquity [...]

Tate Britain is Changing: First Phase of Major Building Project Starts this Autumn

LONDON.- This autumn Tate Britain embarks on a process which takes the gallery into the first phase of a major building project, through a period of transition and into a changed approach to showing the collections in newly refurbished galleries. The two-year period between spring 2011 and spring 2013 will be characterised by new ways of thinking about the Collection in the BP British Art Displays at Tate Britain. There will be two primary approaches, firstly a route for visitors to [...]