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Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung

Musée d’Orsay Masterpieces at the deYoung
Beginning May 22, 2010, the de Young Museum of San Francisco focuses on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art from Paris. “Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents nearly 100 magnificent works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid- to late-19th...

Drawings and Prints at The MET

Drawings and Prints at The MET
Until April 11, 2010, drawings and prints from the 16th to the 21st centuries will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The work, from the museum’s permanent collection, represents artists from America, Italy, France, Holland and England in all their diverse styles: Raphael, Rembrandt,...

The Look of Fresh Paint and Gallery Space

The Look of Fresh Paint and Gallery Space
I don’t  know that Galleries have a smell and when I see pictures of the Betty Cuningham Gallery I can do one better then smelling it I can almost taste it. When I see paintings with tons of space around them for viewers to soak up each painting as if it were for them alone I feel joy and some...

Altars and Rituals of the Diaspora at MoAD

Altars and Rituals of the Diaspora at MoAD
Beginning March 20, 2010, the Museum of the African Diaspora showcases photographer Bryan Wiley’s portfolio dealing with Altars and Rituals from around the world. “Wiley has assembled his photographs of altar objects from Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, South Carolina and New Orleans into large ornate frames...

The Frick and “Masterpieces”

The Frick and “Masterpieces”
Beginning March 9, 2010, the Frick will showcase “Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery”. “The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...

Exposing Time at the Phoenix Art Museum

Exposing Time at the Phoenix Art Museum
Frank Gohlke Nicholas Nixon Andrew Phelps Robert Weingarten Milton Rogovin This coming weekend (March 6th) the Phoenix Art Museum will exhibit the work of five contemporary American photographers who individually and collectively document both the subtle and dramatic changes that have...

Maurice Prendergast – Watercolors of Italy

Maurice Prendergast – Watercolors of Italy
The work that he produced in Italy is the focus of the exhibit of American Impressionist artist Maurice Prendergast, 1858 – 1924, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston until May 9, 2010. “Prendergast in Italy features more than 60 picturesque views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri drawn from a number...

Focus On Artists- SFMOMA

Focus On Artists- SFMOMA
Now until May 23, 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showcasing, “Focus On Artists – Selections from the Collection” “This exhibition looks at SFMOMA’s long-term relationships with several modern masters whose iconic works were influential in defining movements from...

Tutankhamun * SF deYoung

Tutankhamun * SF deYoung
King Tutankhamun’s San Francisco revisit is coming to an end. First seen in 1979, the boy king returned to the de Young Museum in a brand new exhibit featuring 130 pieces – jewelry, statues, masks, gold objects and of course that famous golden sarcophagus. “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age...

Newark Museum – Abstract Art Exhibit

Newark Museum – Abstract Art Exhibit
Next month, the Newark Museum of Art presents: “Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s” The intention is to offer a “ground-breaking exhibition of 90 works from the 1920s through 1950s and the first to present the Pan-American scope of geometric abstraction....

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