Works by nineteenth-century artists, including Van Gogh, Courbet, Monet, and many others, remain on view in our galleries dedicated to European Paintings after 1800 (galleries 800–830). Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are displayed in In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met, on view through September 2023 in the Robert Lehman Wing. The exhibition unites Dutch paintings
The mouse is heading to the Met. The New York museum is preparing to host its first-ever exhibition about Disney hand-drawn animation. The show which will trace the influence of European art on the man and his studio. Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, which runs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
As of April 30, the Portland Art Museum is without a curator of European Art. I conducted an exit interview with the previous curator, Dawson Carr, in late March and wrote up a farewell article. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation, which ranged from the history of the Portland Art Museum’s collections to the future fate
Ticketing available soon: www.diversity-united.com While the world is fully consumed by the fight against the pandemic, central themes and concerns of Diversity United—freedom and globalization, the corrosion of democracy, (fear of) the future, solidarity and divisiveness—are more urgent than ever before. At a time of global helplessness and an increasing loss of confidence in politics, art
The Portland Art Museum and its community are expressing their deep gratitude to Dawson W. Carr, Ph.D., as he retires this month as The Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European Art. Dr. Carr’s final day at the Museum is April 30. Dr. Carr joined the Museum in 2013 as the Museum’s first full-time curator
The beautiful art in the Sistine Chapel includes anti-Semitic imagery. Photo: Jean-Luc Petit / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images / Jean-Luc Petit / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I love old dead white guy art so much, I got a Ph.D. in the subject. But even though I adore the Sistine Chapel and the sumptuous oils of
The Holocaust Records Preservation Project Summer 2002, Vol. 34, No. 2 By Anne Rothfeld Dormant bank accounts, transfers of gold, and unclaimed insurance policies, all taken by the Nazis and hidden primarily in Swiss bank accounts during World War II, are now the subject of economic and financial research. Museums and galleries are researching
The art histories of Central and Eastern Europe are interlaced with dissonant voices, conflicting tendencies and rival proclamations that derive their distinctiveness from exceptional local conditions. This observation is tempered when the lens is finetuned to particular artworks and singular art practices, or the focus of inquiry widened to reveal a web of connecting threads
Overview Overview Discover the essentials of European art history from 1350-1850 in these six lavishly-produced lessons. Over six weeks, the course will take you from the Early Renaissance in Italy through to Romanticism in Britain, introducing you to the artists we call the great masters. By looking in detail at the principal works of
Nicole Myers The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has named Dr. Nicole R. Myers the new Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art. Myers previously served, for nearly three years, as DMA’s Curator of European Painting and Sculpture. Prior to that, she worked at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO for