LACMA presents first international survey of women Surrealist artists in North America

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Co-organized by LACMA and the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) in Mexico City, In Wonderland is the first large-scale international survey of women surrealist artists in North America. Past surveys of surrealism have either largely excluded female artists or minimized their contributions. This landmark exhibition highlights the significant role of women surrealists who were active in these [...]

An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 at the Yale Center for British Art

NEW HAVEN, CT.- Organized to complement the Center’s major fall exhibition on Johan Zoffany, who spent six productive years in India, Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830 will explore the complex and multifaceted networks of British and Indian professional and amateur artists, patrons, and scholars in British India in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and their drive to create and organize knowledge for both aesthetic and political purposes. Selected from the Center’s rich holdings, [...]

The Denver Art Museum is first venue for “Robert Adams: The Place We Live” exhibition

DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is the first U.S. venue for Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The exhibition features more than 200 black-and-white photos spanning Adams’s 45-year career, showcasing the artistic legacy of the American photographer and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Adams lived and worked in Colorado for nearly 30 years. Many of his most acclaimed images were taken in the Rocky Mountain region and will strike a familiar chord with [...]

New Orleans Museum of Art names Russell Lord new Curator of Photographs

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announces the appointment of Russell Lord as the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs. Lord, a historian, curator, and educator who recently completed a Jane and Morgan Whitney fellowship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will assume his new position on October 17, 2011. NOMA’s photography collection was first established in the 1970s at a time when many art museums were [...]

University of Virginia Art Museum selects Jennifer Farrell as curator of exhibitions

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Jennifer Farrell, whose scholarly research, writing, foundation and curatorial work focuses on modern and contemporary art, joined the University of Virginia Art Museum staff Aug. 15 as curator of exhibitions. She will be in charge of developing in-house exhibitions, working with outside curators toformulate future projects and advising on museum purchases, among other duties. Farrell brings a depth of experience working with museums, galleries and foundations to further their exhibition, publication and outreach efforts. Since 2010, she was director of The [...]

Recently Acquired Green Lady Returns to Yale University Art Gallery

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery announced the installation of a recent and important acquisition that showcases portraiture traditions of the late Hellenistic and early Roman era and 21st century conservation methods. Acquired in 2007, and affectionately known to Gallery staff as the “Green Lady,” due to the algae that once marred its surface, the statue has undergone extensive cleaning and conservation. A larger-than-life, high-quality portait statue with idealized features and careful attention to the details of dress [...]

Collection of Italian Paintings Exhibited in Its Entirety for the First and Only Time

NEW HAVEN, CT.- Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection features some 60 paintings from one of the finest private collections of Italian art in existence. On view at the Yale University Art Gallery from May 28 through September 12, 2010, the exhibition includes major works from the 14th through the 17th century by celebrated artists such as Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Domenichino, Guercino, and Orazio Gentileschi. Organized by Laurence Kanter, the Lionel Goldfrank III [...]

Yale University Acquires Photographer Lee Friedlander’s Archive and Master Prints

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library announce the joint acquisition of the Lee Friedlander Archive and 2,000 of the photographer’s master prints. With this acquisition, the Yale University Art Gallery becomes the largest holder of Friedlander’s work by any museum, and the Beinecke Library becomes home to the preliminary work and records that document the career of one of America’s most original and prolific photographers. “We have been particularly pleased [...]

Adelson Galleries Presents the Paintings of Self-Taught Artist Winfred Rembert

NEW YORK, NY.- In a special event, Adelson Galleries and Peter Tillou Works of Art present the paintings of Winfred Rembert this spring. The exhibition, taking place April 7-May 28, 2010, will be Rembert’s first major solo exhibition in New York. A self-taught artist, Rembert grew up working in the cotton fields of Cuthbert, Georgia, in the 1950’s. He was arrested after a 1960’s civil rights march and survived a near-lynching before serving seven years in jail. It was in [...]

Exhibition Uses Work of George Nama to Illuminate Poetry of Charles Simic

BOSTON, MA.- The Boston Athenæum presents “PAINTER + POET: George Nama and Charles Simic” Feb. 10 through April 10, 2010, in the Athenæum’s Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery, located at 10 ½ Beacon Street on Beacon Hill near the State House. This new exhibition, the result of a collaboration that began several years ago between the two artists, features a selection of Nama’s recent etchings, sculptures, gouaches, and artist’s books that have been inspired by and give visual illumination to Simic’s [...]

Lawyer Says Disputed Van Gogh Worth Up to $150 Million

NEW HAVEN, CT.- A Van Gogh painting at the center of a dispute between Yale University and a man who believes the artwork was stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution is worth $120 million to $150 million, the man’s attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. The evaluation is the first public estimate of the painting’s value, and the lawyer, Allan Gerson, said it comes from a top auction firm. Gerson represents Pierre Konowaloff, the purported great-grandson of [...]

Friedrich Petzel Gallery Shows Interim in Three Rounds, Round 3

NEW YORk, NY.- This last exhibition of three is concerned with dislocation. We are not only talking about the dislocation of the artwork itself, pulled from a greater group of likewise works and orphaned from its reference points; but artworks that have recorded a certain unspecific time and place. These spaces resonate through both the redundancy of a mechanical loop (of, for instance the video or MP3) and that of our familiarity to the subject. Through this they play mnemonically, [...]

Special Installation Showcases Unique “Visual Language” Depicting Timeless Philosophical Messages

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery presents a special installation of images by Jane Davis Doggett, m.f.a. 1956. Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics features the work of Doggett, a pioneer in the field of architectural and environmental design. She is best known for her career in creating graphic identities and wayfinding systems for massive public spaces, including cultural institutions and forty international airports. Jane Davis Doggett, “IconoChrome(tm)”, image from “Talking Graphics”, Exartis Publishers, 2007 Doggett recently invented the [...]

Yale University Says Suit Over Vincent Van Gogh’s Work Imperils Other Art

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The ownership of tens of billions of dollars of art and other goods could be thrown into doubt if a lawsuit seeking the return of a famous Vincent Van Gogh painting is successful, according to a court filing by Yale University. The Ivy League university sued in federal court in March to assert its ownership rights over “The Night Cafe” and to block a descendant of the original owner from claiming it. Pierre Konowaloff is the purported [...]

U.S. Art Critics Association Announces Winners of 26th Annual Awards

NEW YORK, NY.- The International Association of Art Critics/USA announces its 26th annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions. The winning projects were nominated and voted on by AICA’s 400 active U.S.-based members to honor outstanding exhibitions of the previous season. This year’s 13 first-place winners include exhibitions focusing on contemporary artists William Kentridge and Pipilotti Rist, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the performance [...]