LA County Art Museum Gets 10 New Pieces After Weekend Gala

LA County Art Museum Gets 10 New Pieces After Weekend Gala. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will get ten new pieces for its permanent collection after a weekend gala raised more than $3 million. April 23, 2018, at 3:29 p.m.. LA County Art Museum Gets 10 New Pieces After Weekend Gala. Share. ×. Share on …

The destruction of Syria’s heritage over the past eight years is the subject of a significant show due to open at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha later this year. The exhibition, entitled Syria Matters (opens 23 November), aims to explore the country’s centuries-old “extraordinary cultural heritage” …

On previous visits to the Worcester Art Museum, I had paused to consider the reserved posture and elegant dress of Lucretia Chandler Murray; however, …. Using a copy of Willing’s will and articles from the Philadelphia Gazette, WAM invites viewers to grapple with the fact that Willing owned: a “Negroe …

The Dallas Museum of Art’s monthly “Art Babies” class lets parents and babies tour the galleries, and also offers art-inspired singing, stories and studio time where babies play with paint, water and homemade play dough. At the New-York Historical Society, which started offering stroller tours last spring, …

After several years of financial missteps, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has chosen a veteran museum manager, Max Hollein, to be its next director. Mr. Hollein, 48 years old, is currently the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, an entity that comprises the M.H. de Young …

Unlike trends that tend to fade after a year or two, black art has been sustained by unparalleled museum support. The gold rush is playing out from Sotheby’s, where billionaire Yusaku Maezawa paid $110.5 million for a Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas last May, to sold-out exhibitions and art fairs worldwide.

“Past Times,” which is being offered without a guarantee, was a centerpiece of Marshall’s acclaimed traveling retrospective that made a stop at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016-17. The unstretched canvas, 9-by-13 feet, depicts an idyllic scene in the shadow of a housing project.

To curate this show, Smith drew entirely from the museum’s deep collection of modern art (including works from a private collection promised to the museum). She selected 156 pieces, much of it falling into pretty standard categories: landscapes, portraits, still lives. But all them evidence an artist kicking …

More than a year after vacating its base of operations in Fountain Square, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art has secured a new long-term location in the Holy Cross neighborhood on the city’s near-east side. IMOCA announced Tuesday that it will lease 2,300 square feet in the former Ford …

The museum will give visitors a history of the ever-popular food item, Mr. Rahma said. But it will also celebrate pizza’s place in pop culture through art and interactive elements, such as a “cheese cave” made from silicone and a “pizza beach” where visitors will experience, in Mr. Rahma’s words, “a huge …