Art in the News Knoxville, Knoxville Museum of Art 11:29 am
A man claiming to be a special agent with the United States Illuminati was arrested after trying to break into the Knoxville Museum of Art.
The would-be burglar called 911 after getting stuck in an air vent. After claiming “Mission failed,” he continued by explaining that he was trying to defuse a nuclear device that was hidden in a sculpture.
Exhibitions Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1:42 pm
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City opens an exhibition entitled “Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960.” The exhibit, which displays more than 100 train-inspired artworks from painters such as Manet, Monet, Kandinsky, and more, opened earllier this month.
Art in the News Lost Painting, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Wellesley College 12:25 pm
Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger. The painting is likely worth upwards of $3 million.
“Woman and Child” had been on display at Davis Museum and Cultural Center since 1954. It was loaned to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art along with (more…)
Exhibitions Columbia, Columbia Museum of Art 8:35 am
Columbia Museum of Art is the first of only five cities that will get the chance to display an exhibit of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings from the Davies Collection that is usually housed at the National Museum Wales. The collection includes works from Cézanne, van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Whistler, and many more. (more…)
Exhibitions Chinese Art, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art 8:11 am
The Indianapolis Museum of Art display “Power & Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty” from October 26 through January 11. The exhibit will focus on art from China’s Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
The exhibit was organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and (more…)
Exhibitions San Angelo, Texas 7:50 am
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts will display The Madonna as Muse: An Exhibition of Paintings by Rene Alvarado. The exhibit will display 24 paintings that use the image of the Madonna to express the artist’s life and many influential women in the artist’s life. (more…)
Paintings For Sale Joseph Delaney 9:05 am
A rare book containing drawings and sketches made by Joseph Delaney is for sale by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. in Gloucester City, NJ.
The 21-page, spiral-bound book was published in 1944. It contains a collection of reproductions of Delaney’s art in black and white. (more…)
Exhibitions Salem 1:55 pm
The frigid and majestic views afforded by the landscape of the Arctic and the Antarctic were immortalized in the 19th and early 20th paintings of artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, George Marston, and others.
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts is honoring them by displaying thier work in “To the Ends of the Earth, Painting the Polar Landscape.” This exhibit will (more…)
Art in the News da Vinci, Monet, van Gogh 1:30 pm
Spotting fakes has long been a neccessity when dealing with paintings from artists such as van Gogh, Monet, da Vinci and others. The art industry may now have some help in identifying fakes.
A team of artists and scientists, led by Richard Johnson, of Cornell University, is using digital scans of numerous van Gogh paintings to test the possibility of sniffing out fakes and forgeries by (more…)
Exhibitions Duke University, North Carolina 10:43 am
Nasher Museum of Art, on the Duke University campus in North Carolina, recently unveiled a new exhibit called “El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.” The exhibition includes 52 paintings, portraits, carved and painted sculptures of saints, pieces of period glass and ceramics, and more. Of the paintings, there are seven works by El Greco, three works by Velázquez, and works by their contemporaries.
Co-curators Sarah Schroth and Ronni Baer, with support from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, found and bargained to bring art inventories of the (more…)
Art in the News Gettysburg 9:47 am
For the first time in more than a century, the Gettysburg Foundation and the National Park Service will allow visitors to view the entire “Battle of Gettysburg” Cyclorama. A ceremony and three-day Grand Opening weekend, September 26-28, marks the opening the Cyclorama Gallery and the completion of the Museum and Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Military Park.
The “Battle of Gettysburg” Cyclorama is a massive circular painting, measuring 377 feet by 42 feet, is the largest painting in (more…)
Art in the News Brazil, Picasso 8:26 am
Brazilian police have recovered the fourth and final piece of artwork that was stolen during a heist at the Estacao Pinacoteca Museum in Sao Paulo. On June 12 three armed thieves walked into the Pinacoteca and held security guards at gunpoint while they stole the artwork.
The stolen paintngs were Picasso’s “The Painter and the Model,” Emiliano DiCavalcanti’s “Women at the Window,” Lasar Segall’s “Couple, and Picasso’s “Minotaur, Drinker and Women,” which was the final piece recovered. (more…)
Exhibitions Greensburg, Westmoreland Museum of American Art 8:45 am
An exhibit called “Painting in the United States: 1943-1949″ is being showcased at Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. The exhibition runs from June 29 to October 19, 2008.
The exhibit “reconstructs a sampling of the exhibitions of the same title organized by Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh from 1943 to 1949.” The exhibit includes (more…)
Priceless Art Des Moines, Jackson Pollock 8:24 am
The Iowa Board of Regents is looking into the possible sale of a painting by Jackson Pollock called “Mural.” The value of the painting is estimated at $100 million.
The painting was being housed at the University of Iowa Museum of Art until a recent flood forced them to move it to a safe location in Chicago. The potential proceeds from the sale of the painting would pay for flood damage to the (more…)
Paintings For Sale Joseph Delaney, Knoxville 8:19 am
An important Joseph Delaney painting is being offered for sale in Knoxville, Tennessee. The painting, titled Central Park Skating, was aquired directly from the artist.
The painting, which was put on canvas in 1969, depicts figures ice skating at Wohlman Memorial Skating Rink in Central Park. (more…)
