2 April 2010 | Career, Museums
The New York Times profiles nine emerging curators: Rajendra Roy, Hao Sheng, Jen Mergel, Alison Gass, Diane Waggoner, Scott Rothkopf, Diane Waggoner, Clara Drummond, and Samantha Rippner. MoMA film curator Roy says, “When I first heard they were looking for someone I was convinced I was NOT the person. I was too young, too out [...]
29 March 2010 | Conferences, Journals, Museums
Routledge has announced a new journal World Art, edited by George Lau, Daniel Rycroft, and Veronica Sekules: In the context of the reassessment of the collecting, display and interpretation of cultures, the study of art as a global human activity challenges categories of mainstream and marginalised arts and allows new histories to emerge, highlighting different [...]
22 March 2010 | Museums
From Timesonline.co.uk: Although a serious scholar who made significant contributions in several fields, it is as a great populariser and brilliant lecturer with the ability to hold audiences aged from 9 to 90 entranced that many will remember [Lionel Lambourne] first and foremost … As the [V&A's] unofficial “curator of silly art”, his range of [...]
1 March 2010 | Museums
From The Independent: There is a new star rising in the Paris art world, still relatively little known to tourists but already a favourite with Parisians. The Pinacothèque, a privately run, wholly unsubsidised exhibition space has come from nowhere to lead the field in just over two years. In the last 12 months, it has [...]
9 February 2010 | Modern, Museums
The exhibition “Van Doesburg & The International Avant-Garde” opens Thursday at Tate Modern. The Telegraph writes … a small group of Dutch artists and architects came together, united by an ambition to redesign the world on purer, better lines – and those lines would always be straight ones … After his death, Alfred Barr, founding [...]
14 January 2010 | Museums
Apparently some museum has a new director. Passing comparisons have been made to another dealer-turned-director: Walter Hopps. This 2005 essay by Ken Allen describes Hopps’ difficulties balancing art and commerce and navigating between the cultures of New York and L.A.: … Edward Kienholz’s 1959 piece, Walter Hopps, Hopps, Hopps, is a cunning assemblage portrait of [...]
22 December 2009 | Museums, Renaissance
According to ArtDaily, an Italian exhibition that brings together reputed Giorgiones has aroused controversy among scholars and art historians … [Castelfranco Veneto] is staging a wide-ranging exhibition … from December 12 [2009] to April 11, 2010 … The exhibition, a challenge both from the scientific and the organizational points of view … is curated by [...]
16 December 2009 | Museums
Two surprisingly good private collections have recently garnered attention. The New York Times writes about a long-hidden Romanian collection on view in Paris that includes a Massacre of the Innocents, “painted sometime in the late 1580s in the studio of Pieter Breughel the Elder, after his death. Cruel and violent, but painted with extraordinary verve [...]
11 December 2009 | Museums
The former Metropolitan Museum director has died.
7 December 2009 | Modern, Museums
Michael J. Lewis writes in the New Criterion: … the Bauhaus is a moving target, and there is no point in its fourteen-year life when it existed in anything like a definitive form. This is one of the insights of “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity,” the spellbinding exhibition now at the Museum of Modern Art [...]
30 November 2009 | Modern, Museums
From the Times of London: “Everything is going to be alright” reads the sign above the entrance to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh … But it is controversy not hope that dominates the mood of the gallery’s first re-hang in 25 years. From a collection of more than 130 Scottish Colourist [...]
3 November 2009 | Museums
Former Northwestern University dean Rudolph H. Weingartner and Princeton University Art Museum director James Christen Steward duel in the pages of Inside Higher Ed over the Rose Art Museum. Weingartner: … I said to myself “good for them” when reports first surfaced last winter that Brandeis intended to sell its collection of modern art, so [...]
28 October 2009 | Contemporary, Museums
From The New York Observer: Ever since he got his start in the art world as an editor at the influential bimonthly magazine Flash Art in Milan, [Massimiliano] Gioni has enjoyed an extraordinarily swift rise as a curator … Some of the more outlandish stunts Mr. Gioni has overseen … include sending a 90-foot helium [...]
6 October 2009 | Museums
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21 September 2009 | Museums
We belatedly catch up with former Met director Thomas Hoving, who finished serializing his memoir at Artnet over the summer: If I could do it over what would I do differently? I would not have gotten my Ph.D. in art history and archaeology nor would I have become a museum curator. I would have taken [...]
10 September 2009 | Museums
In a recent essay for caa.reviews, Carleton College Director of Exhibitions and Curator of the College Art Collection Laurel Bradley considers the fate of the university art museum, a topic on many minds following the recent Rose Art Museum debacle: Between 1942 and 2008 campus art museums increased dramatically in number … A new funding [...]
9 September 2009 | Modern, Museums
Hamburg is hosting an exhibition on Rosa Schapire, the art historian, feminist and champion of Die Bruecke (she arranged Karl Schmidt-Rottluff‘s first solo show). She battled sexism and anti-Semitism to become a significant scholar and collector, without the help of an inheritance or a rich husband.
21 May 2009 | Museums
In the June 2009 ARTnews, executive editor Robin Cembalest writes that although museum attendance remains good for now, numerous directors are focusing greater energies on luring visitors, be it with esthetic coat checks, Facebook pages, yoga, or belly-dancing demonstrations: … some have begun reaching out to scientists, futurists, game designers, and other specialists outside the [...]
11 May 2009 | Medieval, Museums, Renaissance
Recently arrived in our inbox: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EXHIBITIONS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, SUMMER 2009 An incomplete list, compiled by Nick Herman [Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University] Belgium Charles the Bold Groeninge Museum, Bruges, 27 March-21 July Canada From Raphael to Caracci: The Art of Papal Rome Ottawa, National Gallery [...]
8 May 2009 | Contemporary, Museums
From Le Monde: The second edition of the exhibition, “The Power of Art,” has opened its doors. This triennial event, organized by the minister of culture and communication, the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Réunion des musées nationaux, comprises three sections … Among the 42 “resident” artists, just 7 women are presented … [...]
