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ArchDaily: The 21 Most Anticipated Projects of 2024
Construction is well underway for the new Palmer Museum building at Penn State, USA, as newly released images showcase the almost completed building. Set to open on June 1, 2024, the 73,000-square-foot complex will double gallery space to accommodate over 10,000 pieces.
Hyperallergic: How David Hockney’s Early Experiments Shaped His Iconic Style
The Bruce Museum will shine a light on the friendships, influences, and experiments that helped shape the artist’s visual language.
Forbes: New Raclin Murphy Museum Of Art Opens At University Of Notre Dame
A new era for one of the world’s most storied college campuses began on December 1, 2023, when the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opened at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN.
Blooloop: On beauty and belonging: The McNay Art Museum
Dr. Matthew McLendon assumed leadership of the McNay Art Museum as director and CEO in February 2023, serving as the museum’s fourth director in its 68-year history. He speaks to blooloop about the museum and its mission, as well as this unique new temporary exhibition.
Artnet: A New Exhibition Explores How a Medieval Printmaker Transformed the Artist’s Copyright
A new exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin will showcase how a Medieval goldsmith working at the advent of European printmaking raised questions about copyright and branding that still resonate today.
Culture Type: Honolulu Museum of Art Acquired 55 Works From Robert and Jean Steele, More Than Doubling Representation of African American Artists in its Collection
One master printer paying homage to another, “Robert Blackburn” (2003) by Ron Adams pictures Blackburn pulling a figurative print from a lithographic stone.
Town & Country: Must-Read Books of Fall 2023
Will any coffee table this fall feel complete without a copy of In a Time of Witness? The book pays tribute to the collection at the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art, and doesn’t just show off work by the likes of Isamu Noguchi, Grant Wood, and El Anatsui but also features text written by more than 30 alumni—including Rita Dove, Carmen Maria Machado, Yiyun Li, and Adam Haslett, among others—inspired by the artwork.
Widewalls: Diversifying the Collections – In Conversation with Amy Gilman of the Chazen Museum of Art
Flanked by two lakes on the spectacular campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Chazen Museum of Art represents one of the most vital educational and cultural pillars in Madison and beyond.
Asian Art Newspaper: Modern Japanese Art
An exhibition at Honolulu Museum of Art is shaped around a recent major gift from one of the museum’s benefactors, allowing them to explore a fascinating period in Japanese art, comprising paintings, ceramics and lacquerware produced between the 1870s and 1950s.
Wall Street Journal: ‘Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club’ Review: Global Origins
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), who painted the African-American experience, is among the most well-known and respected black American figurative artists of the 20th century. But a new exhibition, “Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club” (at Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art through Sept. 3), puts Lawrence on the international stage, as it broadens our understanding of the artist, his influences and his art.
Culture Type: What to See in U.S. Museums This Summer: 15 Solo Exhibitions Featuring Black Artists
Some of the summer’s best U.S. museum exhibitions are on view beyond the art capitals of New York and Los Angeles.
“Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure” @ Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fla. | July 16-Oct. 29, 2023. Multimedia artist Chakaia Booker (1953) is renowned for her complex sculptural works composed of recycled tires.
Designboom: Looming over Columbus, 500,000 knots weave Janet Echelman’s lucid fiber tapestry ‘Current’
Starting June 2023, the skyline of downtown Columbus in Ohio becomes an artistic touchstone for Janet Echelman’s famed wispy, floating sculpture, guarding the metropolis with its lucid, multi-colored fiber tapestry. Forming web-like twine filaments as the sculptural skeleton, 78 miles of twine and more than 500,000 knots of blue and red cloudlike abstraction make up the longest piece of public art in Columbus and the first of Echelman’s permanent sculptures to be suspended over a street.