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Gainsborough’s Family Album is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in association with the Princeton University Art Museum. Tracing the full arc of Gainsborough’s career through family portraiture, the exhibition draws from notable public and private collections from across Great Britain and the United States.
A key figure in the Parisian avant-garde including Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, Gauguin rejected traditional artistic hierarchies in Europe, identified as a self-styled “savage” and traveled extensively to the South Pacific on a romantic quest for a paradisiacal land far from the ills of urban life.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first survey devoted to American photographer David Lebe. Long Light examines his remarkable artistic range and adventurous experimentation over five decades, including his powerful representations of gay experience and living with AIDS.
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce that it has acquired the esteemed collection of Roberta and Richard Huber. This world-class collection of art from the Spanish and Portuguese Americas is composed of 119 objects ranging from paintings and sculpture to furniture and silverwork—deepening the Blanton's extensive holdings of art and objects from Latin America.
The Museum of Modern Art announced today that MoMA will open its expanded campus on October 21, 2019, with a reimagined presentation of modern and contemporary art.
Last week, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands opened the exhibition Basquiat: The artist and his New York scene at the SCHUNCK Museum in Heerlen. She did this, entirely in style of the exhibition and the street art character of the city, by placing a graffiti tag.
This February, The Ringling will present Knights, an exhibition showcasing stunning examples of European arms and armor from the renowned collection of the Museo Stibbert in Florence, Italy. Through more than 100 rare objects – including full suits of armor, mounted equestrian figures, helmets, swords and other weaponry – this exhibition tells the tale of the European knight from the medieval and Renaissance periods through the Medieval Revival of the 19th century.
The Museum of Modern Art has received a major gift of 800 works, the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, adding significant examples of the conceptual underpinnings of more than 300 artists’ practice to the Museum’s collection. This is the third major gift from the Silvermans to MoMA; they donated the Avalanche Magazine Archives in 2005 and The Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection in 2009. This singular group of instruction drawings is a monumental addition to the Museum’s collection for scholars and audiences alike, highlighting works that, as the Silvermans explained, “bridge the gap between the flash of an idea and the completed artwork,” providing insight into artistic production and the creative process.
Life in the Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Masterpieces from the Dordrecht Museum, on view at the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA), is the result of an innovative international partnership with Dordrecht Museum, The Netherlands. Spanning more than three centuries, Life in the Age of Rembrandt features 17th-century art from the Golden Age of Dutch painting and concludes with works of The Hague School of the late 19th-century. This exclusive exhibition, shown only in Columbus, Ohio, showcases some 90 works, including 40 masterworks, many paired with a related object such as a print, a coin, Delft ware or silver. All the works in the exhibition are on loan from the Dordrecht Museum, The Netherlands.
