In an effort to connect with visitors who feel bored, overwhelmed, or confused, museums are using focus groups, comment boards, and even full-time evaluators to help rethink and rewrite texts in the galleries by Gail Gregg Just a few years ago, a visitor curious about Frank Lobdell’s 15 April 1962, in the Oakland Museum of [...]
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Ukrainian and German police have recovered a painting by 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio stolen from a Ukrainian museum, the Interfax news agency quoted Ukraine’s interior minister as saying on Tuesday. The painting, called the “Taking of Christ,” or the “Kiss of Judas,” and considered the most valuable piece of art in Ukraine, was stolen [...]
A sale of photographs from the collection of the Polaroid Corporation brought in $12.5 million, setting an auction record for iconic photographer Ansel Adams and new marks for the medium by artists including Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and David Hockney. The sale of 1,200 photographs from the Polaroid collection was ordered by U.S. bankruptcy court [...]
Colorful mobiles made from boldly painted sheet metal and steel wires will dangle above visitors’ heads this summer as the Museum of Contemporary Art displays an exhibit of 60 works by Alexander Calder. But this Calder show, which debuts Saturday, doesn’t only feature the artist’s abstract pieces in the museum’s large, white main-floor gallery. In [...]
The Mercedes Benz Award for South African Art and Culture was presented for the 10th time in 2009. Since 1999, over 80 South African artists, musicians, architects, authors and fashion designers were introduced to the country in cultural centers and – for the first time – to an international public. The ten winners in the [...]
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