Significant recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include 17 drawings from the Golden Age of Dutch art; a fine painting by Louis Hayet, a key proponent of neo-impressionism; a contemporary sculpture by American artist Jenny Holzer from her iconic series Laments; and 13 photographs by modern American masters from generous donors Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann.
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Ukrainian police got lucky while searching the Kiev home of a murder suspect this week. While looking for clues connecting a man to a slain jeweler, they uncovered a valuable painting that was stolen from a French museum last May. Paul Signac’s Port de la Rochelle (1915) was cut out of its frame by thieves at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, in northeastern France.
A pair of paintings by the patriarch of arguably the greatest family of American artists could produce seven-figure results in Heritage Auctions’ American Art auction May 3 in Dallas, Texas.
The Female Gaze: Women Surrealists in the Americas and Europe reframes the history of the movement by focusing exclusively on the pivotal role played by female artists as independent from their male counterparts. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, May 8, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future has attracted more than 600,000 visitors since its opening, making it the most-visited show in the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The survey of Hilma af Klint’s work is the first major solo exhibition in the United States devoted to the Swedish artist.
From April 19 to October 27, 2019, an exhibition of new work by artist Simone Leigh, winner of the Hugo Boss Prize 2018, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Leigh’s presentation will encompass a suite of sculptures and a sound installation, as well as a text by the renowned historian Saidiya Hartman.
Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) debuts a new body of work from celebrated American painter Ruth Root in the 81st installment of its Forum series dedicated to contemporary art.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings to rival that of world’s most famous museums. This summer they’re showing off their collection, along with a few loaned works, in The Impressionist’s Eye, an exhibition of more than 80 of art history’s most popular works.
Artist Rory Doyle of Cleveland, Mississippi was awarded the 2019 Southern Prize by South Arts at an event this week in the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina. Doyle, a photographer whose work documents the Mississippi Delta’s “Delta Hill Riders” African-American cowboy subculture, received a $25,000 cash award and a two-week residency at The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.
A distinguished painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex and original body of work that remains rooted in the human figure while drawing on all the resources of modernist abstraction and expression. On view in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art from April 14 through September 15, 2019, Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings presents some 20 paintings created over the past 15 years, many of which are being shown publicly for the first time.
