First Major U.S. Overview of Kurt Schwitters’ Work at Princeton University Art Museum

PRINCETON, NJ.- Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was an integral part of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. He is one of the most enduring figures of the 20th century international avant-garde, and has been cited as a profound influence by artists ranging from Robert Rauschenberg to Damian Hirst. Widely acknowledged as a great master of collage, Schwitters’ diverse body of work cut across boundaries, hierarchies and media to include painting, sculpture, typography, [...]

Princeton Museum Announces Gauguin Woodblock Prints Exhibition

PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum will launch its fall 2010 season with an exhibition it is originating, Gauguin’s Paradise Remembered: The Noa Noa Prints (September 25, 2010—January 2, 2011), the first comprehensive look at this pivotal woodcut series. Gauguin’s Paradise Remembered posits a new way of understanding a key body of work within the artist’s career, and by extension a new way of understanding this vital post-Impressionist artist. The exhibition presents 32 works that concentrate on the pivotal [...]

U.S. curator discovers unknown piece by Velazquez at Yale

Washington.- A remodeling project at the Yale University art museum led John Marciari, then the institution’s curator of European painting, to a large, damaged canvas of unknown origin. The striking quality of the work spurred a quest to identify the painter and at first even Marciari found it hard to accept his finding that the artist had to have been Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). “I told myself that I must be crazy. I spent six months trying to convince myself the [...]

Kathryn Kanjo Named Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

SAN DIEGO, CA.- Dr. Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), announced today that Kathryn Kanjo has been appointed the new Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department, concluding a comprehensive international search. Kanjo is currently the Director of the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and plans to assume her new responsibilities at MCASD on July 20, 2010. “Kathryn Kanjo is an [...]

New Orleans Museum of Art Names Susan M. Taylor New Museum Director

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Susan M. Taylor as Director Designate. She will officially become the Museum’s sixth director on September 1, 2010. Taylor will succeed E. John Bullard, who will retire as one of America’s longest-serving museum directors. Bullard will remain on staff as Director Emeritus to aid Taylor in the transition and will continue to work on NOMA’s centennial celebrations throughout 2011. “As NOMA commemorates a century of art, [...]

DePaul Exhibition Explores Process of Pairing Down Museum Collections

CHICAGO, IL.- The public is invited to explore the fascinating process of how an art museum decides what works to remove from its collection in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Museum Collections and ‘Deaccessioning’” which opens Jan. 14 at the DePaul University Art Museum. The exhibition, which runs through March 19, examines the process of deaccessioning, or removing objects from a collection, an important but seldom discussed part of forming a well-focused museum. As DePaul’s collection grows and [...]

Fuller Craft Museum Presents New and Recent Quilts by Nancy Crow

BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum presents Nancy Crow: Crossroads Continuing – New and Recent Quilts, from Jan. 30—April 19, 2010. The dazzling art quilts of Nancy Crow, largely considered the founder of the contemporary art quilting movement, have transformed a tradition-bound medium into one of bold improvisation, composition and technical innovation. Her masterful fabric cutting and piecing are done without controlled grids and patterns, using a more improvisational approach. This exhibition, in Fuller Craft’s Merton Tarlow and Lampos galleries, presents [...]

Northern Illinois University Art Museum to Open Comic Book Exhibition

DEKALB, IL.- Northern Illinois University Art Museum presents: “Heroes, Villains and the American Zeitgeist; Comic books from the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of the University Libraries”, January 19 – March 13, 2010 Hall Case Galleries, Altgeld Hall. Lynne Thomas, Associate Professor and Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections, University Libraries, explores an exhibition of the important evolutionary ages of this popular art and literature form. Thomas’ chronological and sociological examination begins with the Golden Age (Superman, Captain America) [...]

Ireland’s High-Tech Industry Explored in Exhibition at DePaul

CHICAGO, IL.- An exhibition of Mark Curran’s photographs and videos examining the aesthetics of the high-tech “clean room” industry will open Jan. 14 at the DePaul University Art Museum, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 14 at the museum. Both are free and open to the public. “The Breathing Factory,” which runs through March 19, probes the cascading effects of globalization and economic swings in a Hewlett-Packard (HP) plant [...]

Iconic Ansel Adams Print Going Up for Auction at Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- An early print of an iconic Ansel Adams photograph is going up for auction in New York City for an estimated $350,000 to $450,000. The Dec. 8 sale of 1948′s “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” is at Swann Auction Galleries. The print is signed and inscribed to Valentino Sarra, a friend of Adams’ and a poster designer for the old Works Progress Administration. It shows a nighttime moon over a cloud-fringed mountain range with a graveyard in [...]