Series from Durer to Lichtenstein showcases 500 years of serial printmaking

BALTIMORE, MD.- Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein is an epic exhibition of more than 350 prints by American and European artists working in series from the late 15th through the 21st centuries, including Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. On view October 30, 2011 through March 25, 2012, the exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view 29 series of multiple images in complete sets—revealing the true vision of the artist, print by print. Also represented are [...]

The Jewish Museum to open two Wednesdays during final weeks of Collecting Matisse exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Due to a high level of public interest, The Jewish Museum will specially be open two Wednesdays in September (normally closed on Wednesdays) to allow additional visitors to see the exhibition, Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore. On Wednesdays, September 7 and September 14, museum hours will be 11 am to 5:45 pm. Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters, on view through September 25, 2011, presents over 50 works from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s internationally renowned [...]

American Master David Smith Featured in Exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Whashington

WHASHINGTON, DC.- This winter, The Phillips Collection showcases the work of modern master David Smith (1906–1965). The exhibition shines a spotlight on a pivotal moment in the artist’s illustrious career, revealing the evolution of his personal aesthetic. The exhibition remains on view through May 15. David Smith is widely considered one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He was the first American to make welded steel sculpture, infusing this industrial material with a fluidity and imaginative creativity [...]

John Singer Sargent Exhibition at Adelson Galleries Explores Impressionist Period

NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent and Impressionism – an exceptional selection of landscapes and interiors painted by John Singer Sargent – will be on view at Adelson Galleries from November 4 through December 18, 2010. Culled from museum and private collections in the United States and abroad, the exhibition’s 28 oil paintings, three watercolors and one ink drawing date from 1883 to 1889. Known as the artist’s Impressionist period, Sargent spent the years immediately following the Madame X scandal withdrawing from Paris [...]

Baltimore is the Last Stop on National Tour for Acclaimed Andy Warhol Exhibition

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). On view October 17, 2010 through January 9, 2011, more than 50 works reveal the Pop artist’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life. This period shows Warhol in the midst of his celebrity creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at [...]

Baltimore Museum of Art to Present Andy Warhol: The Last Decade

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). More than 50 works reveal the Pop artist’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation from 1976-1986, while in the midst of his celebrity. This period shows Warhol creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at any other moment of his 40-year career. Exhibition highlights include psychologically revealing fright [...]

Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art

BALTIMORE, MD.- One of the earliest examples of David Smith’s welding is shown for the first time in this exhibition of approximately 40 works drawn from the BMA’s collection, the Estate of David Smith, and private collections. Once considered “lost” by the Smith Estate, Head with Cogs for Eyes came to the Baltimore Museum of Art last year as part of a generous bequest. It is joined by works by Hans Arp, Naum Gabo, Julio Gonzalez, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, [...]

Ryan Hackett Wins $25,000 Sondheim Artscape Prize

BALTIMORE, MD.- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are proud to announce that Ryan Hackett is the winner of the 2010 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The coveted $25,000 prize was presented at this evening’s awards ceremony at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Works of art by the prizewinner and six other finalists are on view at the BMA until August 1. “There comes a certain point in your life when it is [...]

Baltimore Museum of Art unveils $24 million renovation plan

Baltimore, Maryland. – Baltimore Museum of Art leaders unveiled plans on Tuesday to complete a $24 million renovation in time for the institution’s 100th anniversary in 2014, a three-year project that will require some galleries to be closed in phases starting early next year. The museum’s director, Doreen Bolger, and its fundraising campaign co-chair, Sandra Levi Gerstung, announced that the museum has raised more than half the funds needed for the project, including a commitment of $10 million over four [...]

Show at Brooklyn Museum Unveils Andy Warhol’s Catholic, Abstract Side

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- As a pop art pioneer, Andy Warhol blazed his way to fame with trademark Brillo soap pad boxes and silk-screens of Campbell’s Soup cans. But a new museum exhibit shows pop art was just a seven-year phase for Warhol in the 1960s, before his 1980s plunge into abstract art and Christian imagery, particularly his versions of “The Last Supper.” Flippant, brazen and flamboyant as an art world personality, Warhol long kept private his devout, lifelong Catholicism. “Only [...]

Exhibition of Andy Warhol’s Late Works to Travel to the Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, NY.- Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first United States museum exhibition of the late works of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987) and the first major Warhol survey in New York since the 1989 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Created amid the frenetic activity of Warhol’s celebrity, the nearly fifty paintings on view reveal the artist’s vitality, energy, and spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and [...]

Baltimore Museum of Art Presents First Exhibition to Explore Cézanne’s Influence on American Art

BALTIMORE, MD.- Discover how Cézanne transformed American art at the beginning of the 20th century. Cézanne and American Modernism, on view February 16 – May 23, 2010, brings together 16 of the French master’s paintings and watercolors with more than 80 works by 33 American artists, including Marsden Hartley, Maurice Prendergast, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray. Along with the Baltimore Museum of Art’s two great Cézanne paintings, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry and Bathers, the exhibition showcases outstanding [...]

Baltimore Museum Announces Exhibition to Explore Cézanne’s Influence on American Art

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne’s profound impact on American artists at the beginning of the 20th-century. Along with the BMA’s two great Cézanne paintings, “Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry” and “Bathers”, the exhibition showcases outstanding [...]