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Darien steps into ‘House of Dior’ The Darien Library will present a preview of the “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams” exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, via a virtual program called “Step Inside The ...
Glass House Presents' September lineup announced

His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ontario Art Gallery and the ...
MoMA instructor and art historian to judge annual show

Larissa Bailiff, independent art historian and Museum of Modern Art instructor and lecturer, will judge the 56th annual Art Show and Sale at the Darien Arts Center. ... In addition to her extensive work at the ...
Brooklyn Museum acquires rare painting

Associated Press NEW YORK -- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired a rare secular painting from colonial Peru. ... Museum Rare Painting This undated photo provided by the Brooklyn Museum shows the 18th century ...
Silvermine fall lectures series begins with Dunlop

He has given art history lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and has been a visiting artist/lecturer at multiple institutions, including New Britain Museum of American Art, Caramoor Center for ...
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Patrick’s Cathedral, with a reception that followed at the Brooklyn Museum among the art exhibits.
'Beyond the Book' features seven artists

We visited the Brooklyn Museum to see El Anatsui, an African artist who employed whole villages to use scraps of metal pieced together to form monumental wall hangings. This trip also included a visit to the ...
Brooklyn Museum Opens Egyptian Exhibit
DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer With more than 4,000 Egyptian antiquities, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the world. ... Later restorers often put on new legs, which staff ...
Brooklyn Museum Opens Egyptian Exhibit
DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer With more than 4,000 Egyptian antiquities, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the world. ... Later restorers often put on new legs, which staff ...
Brooklyn Museum Opens Egyptian Exhibit
DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer With more than 4,000 Egyptian antiquities, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the world. ... Later restorers often put on new legs, which staff ...
Brooklyn Museum Opens Egyptian Exhibit
DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer With more than 4,000 Egyptian antiquities, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the world. ... Later restorers often put on new legs, which staff ...
Winter exhibits at Silvermine to feature new guild members, director's choice and modern printmaker

Her work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries, with solo exhibitions in Germany, France and the United States. ... He is also represented in the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the ...
'American High Style' It's one of the Brooklyn Museum's more fashionable exhibits (video)

However, the agreement stipulates that the Brooklyn Museum can borrow back works from its former collection. ... American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection" runs through Aug. 1 at the Brooklyn Museum, ...
Brooklyn museum exhibition looks at brilliant but short-lived career of Basquiat
"Basquiat" opened Friday at the Brooklyn Museum and runs through June 5 before traveling to Los Angeles and Houston. ... Born in 1960 to Haitian and Puerto Rican parents, Basquiat made his love of art known ...
Brooklyn museum exhibition looks at brilliant but short-lived career of Basquiat
"Basquiat" opened Friday at the Brooklyn Museum and runs through June 5 before traveling to Los Angeles and Houston. ... Born in 1960 to Haitian and Puerto Rican parents, Basquiat made his love of art known ...
Washington Art Association presents Philip Grausman: Sculpture and Drawings

Grausman’s work is in the collection of over 30 museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
Hunt Library presents ‘John Frederick Walker: Altered Books’ exhibit

Walker’s art has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and is represented in a number of private and public collections, including Yale University Art Gallery, Brooklyn Museum Library, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
San Francisco to host Barack and Michelle Obama's presidential portraits at de Young Museum

Dan Gentile Since mid-June of 2021, the official portraits of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have been touring the country, with stops at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn ...
Lyme home of Impressionist painter featured at Smithsonian listed for $825K

Wiggins was the youngest American to have his work accepted into the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to his biography, and was among the younger members of the art colony. ...
Ridgefield happenings: Hearts, Hugs & Hope, Ridgefield Chorale, 'Get Those Poems Published' workshop

Staff reports Ridgefield Continuing Education offers history course on 'Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I' "Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I" is a new history course led by long-term history ...