One way to put your art where your mouth is: The Milwaukee Art Museum and Carnegie Museum of Art have agreed to wager a loan of a major work of Impressionist art on the outcome of Super Bowl XLV. The bet continues a tradition begun last year between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the…
Yale University now hosts the James J. Ross Archive of African Images, 1590-1920 (RAAI), which contains approximately 5,000 illustrations of African art published before 1921. The archive represents an eight-year collaboration between African art collector James Ross and filmmaker Susan Vogel, a former director of the Museum for African Art, and is facilitated by Yale…
Plans are being finalized and announced for the new Broad Art Foundation contemporary art museum and foundation headquarters in Los Angeles. The winning design by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro will provide a stunning addition to the downtown area (Grand Ave., right across from Disney Hall). It is planned for completion is 2013, and will show…
Today marks the debut of ProjectNORMAN at the Norman Rockwell Museum. ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network), begun in 2003, offers not only the museum’s collection but also all images from the artist’s catalogue raisonné, the contents of his last working studio, objects from the Norman Rockwell Archives (including reference photos and…
After commissioning a mural for the football-field-sized wall of MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary building, MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch ordered that the mural be painted over this week. The story contains some interesting facts – a few: a) the decision to cover up the mural was made by Deitch alone (and not based on any complaints); b)…
Patrons visiting the Getty Villa in Malibu have until this Sunday to view the ancient Greek “Cult Statue of a Goddess”. Her trip back to Sicily in January is a piece of a “cultural collaboration” with the Sicilian government to return objects that had been sold to the Getty under questionable circumstances. The Villa’s current…