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Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity, 2009-2014. Detail of “Sky” and “Desire.” Blown, cast, and acid-etched glass, and welded steel with patina, 105 x 30 x 12 feet. Knoxville Museum of Art, gift of Ann and Steve Bailey © 2014 Elizabeth Felicella Photography

Knoxville Museum of Art Announces Major New Publication Celebrating Richard Jolley’s Monumental Masterwork Cycle of Life

Knoxville Museum of Art
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June 22, 2018

Knoxville Museum of Art Announces Major New Publication Celebrating Richard Jolley’s Monumental Masterwork Cycle of Life June 22, 2018 (Knoxville, TN) – The Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA) ...

Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw/ Cherokee), I PUT A SPELL ON YOU, 2015. Repurposed punching bag, glass beads, artificial sinew, and steel; 40 × 14 × 14 in. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Museum purchase, 2015.11.1. Image courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. Photograph by Peter Mauney.

Mississippi Museum of Art Announces New Exhibition "Jeffrey Gibson: Like A Hammer" on view Sept. 8, 2018 - Jan. 27, 2019

Mississippi Museum of Art
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July 12, 2018

MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCES NEW EXHIBITION JEFFREY GIBSON: LIKE A HAMMER September 8, 2018 ‒ January 27, 2019 Media Preview: Tuesday, September 4, 2018; 10:30 a.m.‒noon Jackson, ...

International Fine Print Dealers Association Announces the 2018 Exhibitors for the Fine Art Print Fair

July 19, 2018

New York, July 19, 2018 – The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) is pleased to announce the list of exhibitors for this year’s Fine Art Print Fair. The annual fair takes place on ...

The frame which once held Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee at the Gardner Museum.

A Podcast Will Explore the Unsolved Mystery of the Gardner Museum Heist

July 19, 2018

WBUR and The Boston Globe have joined forces to launch Last Seen, a weekly podcast on a still-shocking unsolved art crime. that will debut on September 17. (Listen to a Preview here.) Hosted by ...

Alfred A. Hart (American, 1816-1908), Locomotive on Trestle, near American River, 1865, albumen stereograph, Courtesy Union Pacific Railroad Museum

Traveling Exhibition Features the Transcontinental Railroad and the American West

July 19, 2018

Union Pacific, in partnership with Joslyn Art Museum and the Union Pacific Museum in Council Bluffs, Iowa, announced a new traveling exhibition in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the ...

“We are very proud of our veteran students and alumni who have proudly served our country and distinguished themselves as artists and designers,” said LCAD President Jonathan Burke. “Through this partnership, more than 20 veterans will be able to receive financial assistance to study in all of our nine majors this fall.”

Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) Receives Yellow Ribbon Gi Education Enhancement Designation

Laguna College of Art and Design
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July 19, 2018

Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) was selected as a participating school in the new federal Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program. “We are very proud of our veteran students ...

“View of Featherstonhaugh Estate near Duanesburg,” Thomas Cole, 1826.

Thomas Cole’s Paper Trail

July 18, 2018

In 1818, the youthful Thomas Cole emigrated from his native England to begin a new life in the United States. After several years struggling as an engraver and designer for his parents’ short-lived ...

Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), Songs of Winter, Oil on board laid down on canvas, 12¼ x 11⅜ inches.

Annual Boston International Fine Art Show Returns for 22nd Year to the Cyclorama, October 18 – 21 Gala Preview to benefit The Art for Justice Fund

July 18, 2018

Boston, MA – Tony Fusco and Robert Four are proud to announce the 22nd Annual Boston International Fine Art Show. Featuring the work of 40 galleries from around the world, this year’s Boston ...

Robert Crumb (artist, author), Apex Novelties (publisher), Zap #1, 1968, 28-page paperback bound volume with half-tone and offset lithograph illustrations in black and cover in full color, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

Exhibition Celebrating History of Humor in Prints and Drawings Opens at National Gallery of Art on July 15

National Gallery of Art
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May 25, 2018

Washington, DC—Prints and drawings have consistently served as popular media for humor in art. Prints, which can be widely replicated and distributed, are ideal for institutional mockery and social ...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot The Muse: History, c. 1865 oil on canvas overall: 46 × 35.2 cm (18 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.) framed: 73.7 × 61 × 11.5 cm (29 × 24 × 4 1/2 in.) Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Major Exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Paintings of Women; National Gallery of Art is the Only Venue, September 9 through December 31, 2018

National Gallery of Art
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May 11, 2018

Washington, DC—Dressed in rustic Italian costume or nude on a grassy plain, rendered with a sophisticated use of color and a deft, delicate touch, Corot's women convey a mysterious sense of their ...

Left: Claude Monet, The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1881, oil on canvas, The Norton Simon Foundation; right: Claude Monet, The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1880, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection.

Monet's Study for "The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil" Shown with National Gallery of Art Painting for First Time as Part of Norton Simon Loan Exchange

National Gallery of Art
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May 10, 2018

Washington, DC—Two of Claude Monet's paintings of the garden at his home in Vétheuil, France, will be on view together for the first time since they were created more than 100 years ago as part of ...

Unknown British photographer, Photo of Giorgione's The Adoration of the Shepherds (1505/1510) while in the collection of Lord Allendale, gelatin silver print, 1935. Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library

Major Photographic Archive of Art and Architecture Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Installation at National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art
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April 18, 2018

Washington, DC—One of the largest archives of art and architecture images in the world will be celebrated in a new installation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view from May 7 ...

Signed tempera and gouache on paper done in the manner of Vincent van Gogh, titled Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat, with COA (est. $20,000-$30,000).

Works attributed to the biggest names in art history will be at In the Manner Of's July 26th auction

In the Manner Of
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July 18, 2018

FRANKLIN, Mass. – Rare, market-fresh paintings and drawings from private collections in Europe and the Americas – to include decorative artworks in the styles of, and attributed to, master artists ...

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 1743/1745, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Timken Collection

Major Conservation Treatment of Tiepolo's Monumental Bacchus and Ariadne Reveals Hidden Details

National Gallery of Art
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May 25, 2018

Washington, DC—Following a four-year-long conservation treatment, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Bacchus and Ariadne (c. 1743/1745) will return to public view in the West Building of the National ...

Gordon Parks, Trapped in abandoned building by a rival gang on street, Red Jackson ponders his next move, 1948, gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection)

First Exhibition to Chronicle Formative Beginning of Gordon Parks's Career Premieres at the National Gallery of Art on November 4, 2018

May 25, 2018

Washington, DC—Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional working in ...

Infrared false color image of newspaper, John Delaney, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Keiko Imai, Pola Museum of Art. Source gallica.bnf.fr/BnF

Hyperspectral Near-Infrared Imaging of Picasso Blue Period Painting Reveals French Newsprint and Earlier Works Beneath Painting's Surface

National Gallery of Art
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June 05, 2018

Hakone, Japan—Recent hyperspectral infrared imaging conducted by John Delaney, senior imaging scientist, National Gallery of Art, Washington, of Pablo Picasso's Mother and Child by the Sea (1902), ...

Ugo da Carpi, after Parmigianino Diogenes, c. 1527–1530 chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in light green, medium green, brown, and dark brown, state iii/iii sheet: 47.9 x 34 cm (18 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

First Comprehensive Exhibition of Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from Italian Renaissance on View at National Gallery of Art, October 14, 2018, through January 20, 2019

National Gallery of Art
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June 22, 2018

Washington, DC—Chiaroscuro woodcuts are among the rarest and most beautiful prints that flourished throughout Renaissance Italy. This exhibition, with its accompanying catalog, addresses all ...

Dawoud Bey Mary Parker and Caela Cowan, 2012 2 inkjet prints mounted to dibond overall: 101.6 x 162.56 cm (40 x 64 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee and Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Dawoud Bey's Poignant "The Birmingham Project" on View at National Gallery of Art, September 12, 2018, through March 17, 2019

National Gallery of Art
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July 22, 2018

Washington, DC—For more than 40 years photographer Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) has portrayed American youth and those from marginalized communities with an unusual degree of sensitivity and ...

Paolo Baratta, Curator of the 58th International Art Exhibition, Ralph Rugoff with President of La Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta.

'May You Live in Interesting Times' Is the Apt Title for the Venice Biennale 2019

July 16, 2018

The President of La Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta, and the curator of the 58th International Art Exhibition, Ralph Rugoff, met the press on Monday at Ca’ Giustinian to launch the Biennale Arte ...

Lutz Bacher (American, born 1943). The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview (detail), 1976. Collage in 18 parts, 11 x 8 ½ in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm) each. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Anonymous Gift, 1999. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York

'Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy' Opens at the Met This Fall

July 16, 2018

For the last fifty years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies. The Metropolitan ...

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