A special 60th anniversary exhibition at the Shanghai Museum that opened this month to enormous crowds and much praise includes works from American museums including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Cleveland Museum of Art. The special exhibition, Masterpieces of Early … Continue reading Chinese Landscapes from American Museums on View in Shanghai
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PAFA to Mount Definitive Exhibition on Henry Ossawa Tanner
A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the … Continue reading PAFA to Mount Definitive Exhibition on Henry Ossawa Tanner
New York Ceramics Fair Releases Numbers
Changing locations is usually difficult for well established antiques events and event organizers always prefer to remain in their established venue and hope, if they must move, that the cloud will have a silver lining. But for this year’s New York Ceramics Fair, loosing the lovely surroundings of the National Academy Museum on 5th Avenue … Continue reading New York Ceramics Fair Releases Numbers
An Open Letter to Peter C. Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dear Mr. Marzio- I am looking forward to a first visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Spending a bit of Sunday morning reading the New York Times feature on the future of the Brooklyn Museum of which I am very familiar, I wonder aloud where Houston's museum could be heading. With your … Continue reading An Open Letter to Peter C. Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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