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While most major museums have some fakes in their collections, few like to advertise the fact. But in an unusual move, the Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibition for 2009 that will call attention to a group of forgeries among its collection of Coptic sculptures.
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Construction workers have begun dismantling the scaffolding that has encased the Guggenheim Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for nearly three years. Restoration architects and mechanical engineers have worked to repair the curving, eggshell exterior of the building, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrates its 50th anniversary this fall.
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The long-awaited formal opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens has now been scheduled for September, after a series of delays. The gallery housing the Parthenon marbles, at the top of the museum, with a view towards the actual Parthenon 300m away, will be finally unveiled, although many of the other displays are not expected to be completed until next year.
After years of discussions, the museum has now decided how it will present the marbles. The originals are being displayed alongside plaster casts of the pieces removed from Greece, most of which are in the British Museum in London. read more »
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After years of discussions, the museum has now decided how it will present the marbles. The originals are being displayed alongside plaster casts of the pieces removed from Greece, most of which are in the British Museum in London. read more »
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Construction workers have begun dismantling the scaffolding that has encased the Guggenheim Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for nearly three years. Restoration architects and mechanical engineers have worked to repair the curving, eggshell exterior of the building, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrates its 50th anniversary this fall.
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Two committees of the Association of Art Museum Directors are looking into ethical issues surrounding the Denver Art Museum's April purchase of an 1892 painting by famed American painter Thomas Eakins.
To fund the acquisition, the museum struck an unorthodox deal with billionaire Denver collector Philip Anschutz. In return for a financial donation, he received 50 percent ownership in the painting as well as 50 percent ownership in a major work already in the institution's collection.
Millicent Gaudieri, the New York- based association's executive director, confirmed the inquiries but was careful to not call them an investigation. read more »
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To fund the acquisition, the museum struck an unorthodox deal with billionaire Denver collector Philip Anschutz. In return for a financial donation, he received 50 percent ownership in the painting as well as 50 percent ownership in a major work already in the institution's collection.
Millicent Gaudieri, the New York- based association's executive director, confirmed the inquiries but was careful to not call them an investigation. read more »
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In an age when it can feel as if trash is about to breach the levees and flood the entire cultural landscape, two announcements have offered evidence of the surprising healthiness of the nation's appetite for the highbrow.
The first was that the British Museum has overtaken Blackpool Pleasure Beach to become Britain's most popular cultural attraction. In the past year 6.04 million visitors crossed the threshold, trumping Blackpool on 5.5 million and Tate Modern with 5.23 million.
The second piece of news was even more important for staff at the museum and those who care about its fortunes. Neil MacGregor, the director and the man who has overseen the transformati read more »
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The first was that the British Museum has overtaken Blackpool Pleasure Beach to become Britain's most popular cultural attraction. In the past year 6.04 million visitors crossed the threshold, trumping Blackpool on 5.5 million and Tate Modern with 5.23 million.
The second piece of news was even more important for staff at the museum and those who care about its fortunes. Neil MacGregor, the director and the man who has overseen the transformati read more »
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One of the most sensational bequests of great paintings to the British people since the foundation of the national museums is now on public view at Tate Britain, London. Eighteen masterpieces - many of them barely, or never, seen in public over the past 50 years - have been left to the National Gallery and the Tate by Simon Sainsbury, great-grandson of the founder of J Sainsbury grocers.
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British Museum staff are striking for four hours over what they say is a "totally inadequate" pay rise.
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Speculation is rife about an apparent upheaval in the upper echelons of the National Gallery's ranks as deputy director and chief curator David Franklin has quietly gone on indefinite leave.
Gallery spokesperson Joanne Charette said only that “Dr. Franklin is currently on leave” and that she was unaware of any timetable for his return.
But one former Gallery employee said “on leave” is “terminology they use a lot for people who do not come back,” and that he is widely presumed to have left the Gallery permanently. read more »
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Gallery spokesperson Joanne Charette said only that “Dr. Franklin is currently on leave” and that she was unaware of any timetable for his return.
But one former Gallery employee said “on leave” is “terminology they use a lot for people who do not come back,” and that he is widely presumed to have left the Gallery permanently. read more »
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his year, in a drive to promote awareness of China’s national heritage, the government introduced a free-admission policy at the country’s public museums. Officially the cultural establishment greeted the news with smiles.
But the look of anxious exasperation on the face of a curator watching crowds of schoolchildren swarm through a gallery of ancient ceramics here on a recent morning told a different story. They touched every exposed surface, leaned on glass cases and smeared them with fingerprints. Body contact and the art experience seemed to be inseparable. read more »
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But the look of anxious exasperation on the face of a curator watching crowds of schoolchildren swarm through a gallery of ancient ceramics here on a recent morning told a different story. They touched every exposed surface, leaned on glass cases and smeared them with fingerprints. Body contact and the art experience seemed to be inseparable. read more »
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A glazed terra-cotta relief by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia came loose overnight from its perch above a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and crashed to the stone floor below, suffering serious damage, museum officials said on Tuesday.
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Once upon a time, museums lent to exhibitions almost exclusively according to whether they thought the show was intellectually worthwhile and the work of art was fit to travel. This meant that the less powerful institutions and their curators had a reasonable chance of doing original exhibitions and presenting them to the public, with everyone the winner. In the past ten years, however, this way of doing things has surreptitiously changed for the worse. Now, at last, an official body has blown the whistle.
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Art lovers in Northeast Ohio went into mourning three years ago when the Cleveland Museum of Art closed its permanent-collection galleries to start a massive expansion and renovation.
Their long vigil is almost over.
Next Sunday, the museum will open the doors to newly renovated galleries on the main level of its original neoclassical white-marble home, known as the 1916 building.
The reopening will mark completion of the first part of a $350 million expansion and renovation aimed at transforming the museum. By 2012, two new wings will rise to bracket the 1916 building and the 1971 education facility, joined by a huge glass atrium. The museum sees it as a project that will lift the read more »
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Their long vigil is almost over.
Next Sunday, the museum will open the doors to newly renovated galleries on the main level of its original neoclassical white-marble home, known as the 1916 building.
The reopening will mark completion of the first part of a $350 million expansion and renovation aimed at transforming the museum. By 2012, two new wings will rise to bracket the 1916 building and the 1971 education facility, joined by a huge glass atrium. The museum sees it as a project that will lift the read more »
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The Museum of Fine Arts has reached its $500 million fund-raising goal, the largest sum for a campaign by an arts institution in Boston history. At a board meeting announcing the milestone yesterday, the MFA disclosed key contributions it had received from major local figures in business and the arts. The West Wing will be named for Joyce and Edward Linde and their family in recognition of the more than $25 million they have given the museum for the campaign. Barbara and Ted Alfond, who have given more than $10 million, will have their names on the 150-seat auditorium in the MFA's new Art of the Americas Wing, which is set to open in 2010.
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After many years and many false starts, Harvard is finally launching a major expansion of its art museums. In the process, what have been three separate institutions — the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum — will be consolidated under one roof, and one name: the Harvard Art Museum.
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The Guggenheim Foundation’s proposal to build a museum in Guadalajara has failed because the foundation’s director Thomas Krens refused to scale down the project to fit Mexico’s art budgets, says Guadalajara businessman and art collector Jorge Vergara.
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The Art Institute of Chicago is opening "the first in a sequence of renovated spaces that leads to the dedication of a building for modern and contemporary art next spring... All 3,500 square feet are used for exhibition and include such niceties as a lighting system that uses a low number of foot candles.
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Lithuania's government Wednesday approved the construction of a new museum in its capital, Vilnius, a joint project between the Baltic state, Russia's renowned Hermitage museum and America's Guggenheim... The museum is due to open in 2013, in a building designed by the acclaimed Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.
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