27 December 2006 | Uncategorized
Returning Weds, Jan 3.
22 December 2006 | Americas, Museums
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Mayor Street announced that Thomas Eakins’ masterpiece The Gross Clinic would remain in Philadelphia. The local fund-raising effort to buy the painting has received more than 2,000 contributions from more than 30 states, sources at the Philadelphia Museum of Art said.”
22 December 2006 | Museums
Didier Rykner of La Tribune de l’Art has written in to notify us of a petition drive that he is organizing to protest the dispersal of French collections to venues around the world. This page has more on the matter. Excerpts: “Le Monde … published a text, ‘Museums Are Not For Sale,’ signed by Françoise [...]
20 December 2006 | Uncategorized
The Baltimore Sun and the JHU Gazette have published obituaries of Forgione, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member who wrote a dissertation on Vuillard and the 1999 Art Bulletin article, “‘The shadow only’: shadow and silhouette in late nineteenth-century Paris.”
18 December 2006 | Museums
From a review by Hashim Al-Tawil of “Out of Iraq: Artists’ Meditations on Their Homeland,” a show now at the National Arab American Museum (NAAM) in Dearborn: “The decision to host this show raises serious and troubling questions about the capabilities and/or intentions of those responsible at the museum. There was an obvious lack of [...]
15 December 2006 | Museums
From the Art Newspaper: “The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has established its first permanent curatorial position for Latin American art and also set up a committee to raise funds for Latin American acquisitions. Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at MoMA, has assumed the position of the [...]
14 December 2006 | Modern
From the AP: “A portrait by German expressionist Emil Nolde worth about €500,000 has been discovered more than 25 years after it went missing, a spokesman for Baden-Wuerttemberg state police said Friday. The oil painting ‘Nadja’ was discovered by an art historian who said he stumbled across it when cleaning out his attic and realized [...]
12 December 2006 | Uncategorized
In The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, The New York Sun, Artnet, The Huffington Post, Art History Today, and CultureGrrl.
7 December 2006 | News, Uncategorized
From an email circulated by Mariët Westermann, director of the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU: “I am very sad to let you know that our beloved Robert Rosenblum died yesterday … In 1956 he earned his PhD from the Institute with his dissertation ‘The International Style of 1800: a Study in Linear Abstraction.’ Robert’s [...]
7 December 2006 | Books
The Art Newspaper reports: “In a move which could transform art publishing, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (V&A) is to drop charges for the reproduction of images in scholarly books and magazines.” It states that “The V&A is believed to be the first museum anywhere in the world which is to offer images [...]
5 December 2006 | Books, Renaissance
Reviewing James R. Banker’s The Culture of San Sepolcro during the Youth of Piero della Francesca and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin’s Piero della Francesca, Frank Dabell writes: “Both these books are welcome; and for this reviewer, at least, there can never be enough material about Piero della Francesca if it helps draw us nearer to understanding [...]
4 December 2006 | Journals
From CAA News: “Richard J. Powell … received his PhD in the history of art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1988, with a dissertation on the American artist William H. Johnson … He has been at Duke since 1989, where he teaches American art, the arts of the African diaspora, and contemporary [...]
