First stop – The Art Institute of Chicago, America’s answer to Paris’s famed Le Louvre. Most known for its extensive collections of Impressionist paintings, it’s a must stop for any art lover. With a collection of 270,000 painting, prints,...
created by maryjo | 6 years ago 628 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" Museums Publish Date: 24-Aug-2006 Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives Delta Museum And Archives Japanese Canadian National Museum North Vancouver Museum And Archives Ubc Museum Of Anthropology Vancouver Maritime Museum Vancouver Museum Vancouver Police Centennial...
created by VanGroovy | 6 years ago 518 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The Walker Art Center's second-in-command resigned abruptly Thursday, less than six weeks after the contemporary art museum opened a $70 million addition for which it is still raising money.
Ann Bitter, the center's deputy director and chief operating officer, will depart...
created by minty | 7 years ago 342 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
In 1931, douring the heart of the Great Depression, Jackson Pollock in desperate need of funds to pay the rent on his Village apartment/studio took several of his paintings downstairs and set them up on the...
created by meyers | 7 years ago | updated 7 years ago 1094 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
MIAMI - "I knew Florida was, um, agricultural, but when you think of Florida, you don't think of the South."
That's George Perez, 43, a Miami home inspector, talking. He's standing in the middle of an art gallery in Wynwood, the hip arts district that has sprung...
created by debwire | 8 years ago 1075 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
It was a mystery for a New York minute. On, Tuesday the Astor Place Cube went missing and neither the police nor local community leaders nor its creator, the famed sculptor Tony Rosenthal, knew where it was.
The iconic 15-foot-tall, spinnable steel sculpture has stood,...
created by minty | 8 years ago 440 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Dia Art Foundation Plans an Upscale Move
By CAROL VOGEL
Published: May 9, 2005
Since the Dia Art Foundation was created in 1974, it has been something of a pioneer. More than a decade before fashionable contemporary art galleries moved into Chelsea, Dia operated a museum...
created by minty | 8 years ago 296 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The
Hunter College Masters of Fine Arts Program held its semi annual Open Studios
and Silent Auction this Friday and Satruday at 450 W. 41st Street in New York City. Two great evenings of cutting
edge art and...
created by mmeyers | 8 years ago | updated 8 years ago 1336 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women
between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a
Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit
Friday.
created by mtippett | 8 years ago 1114 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
From the New Zealand Herald:
Many a visitor to New York’s Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that."
A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by...
created by cindy | 8 years ago | updated 8 years ago 583 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments