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CONNECTICUT New Canaan: Philip Johnson Glass House (May 1 – Nov. 30);Vukjiko Nakaya: Veil: The artist will use fog to create atmospheric effects in the Glass House’s first site-specific artist project. Night by Vincent Fecteau: Contemporary artists create a series of sculptures inspired by Giacometti’s sculpture Night, which are displayed on the Mies van der Rohe coffee table where Giacometti’s sculpture was displayed prior …
The Salon Doré, a period room at the Legion of Honor, has a long and busy history, most of which has now been uncovered by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s team of curators, architectural historians, and restorers. When it reopens on April 5 all will be revealed, from the salon’s origins at the Hôtel de La Trémoille in …
In suburban Philadelphia, art and industry are joined in a residence commissioned in 1901
TRANSITIONS London-based Asian art specialist Ben Janssens, who was injured in a cycling accident last August, has resigned as chairman of the European Fine Art Fair after seven years. He will continue serving on TEFAF’s board of trustees and as chairman of its Antiquairs section. Willem van Roijen succeeds Janssens, replacing acting TEFAF chairman Robert Aronson. Joshua W. Lane (left) …
Gallery events Chinese Porcelain Company: “Contemporary Chinese Ink”; March 14 to 22 “Early Chinese Ceramics”; March 14 to 22 Erik Thomsen Gallery: “Japanese Paintings and Works of Art”; March 15 to April 25 Joan B. Mirviss: Japan in Black & White: Ink and Clay”; March 14 to April 25 Peter Pap at Kentshire Galleries: “Art in Bloom – Antique Rugs from Private …
Comings and Goings Joshua W. Lane has been named the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture at Winterthur Museum. Lane, curator of furniture at Historic Deerfield since 2000, assumes the post on April 14. He directed Historic Deerfield’s Summer Fellowship Program between 2005 and 2012. Lane replaces Wendy Cooper, who retired last year. Malcolm Rogers, director …
The Italian Renaissance taste for classical art fostered a revival of bronze statuary, wealthy connoisseurs collecting both antique statuettes and new works by artists like Donatello and Verrochio. Likewise, the nineteenth-century fascination with Renaissance art created an even larger market for bronze sculpture. Post-Civil War American sculptors, many European-trained, followed suit. Cupid by Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), 1895, balances gracefully on a …
New York City’s Frick Collection recently opened an exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes from the collection of Janine and J. Tomilson Hill. Displayed are thirty-three statuettes, sculptures, and a relief by masters of the Italian, German, Dutch, and French schools of the late fifteenth into the eighteenth century. One highlight is a pair of bronzes titled Sleeping Hermaphrodite and …
An interior view signed by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) hangs above a veneered walnut dressing table, Boston, 1710-1730, formerly in the collection of Eric Martin Wunsch. On the dressing table, from left, are a delft hand warmer shaped like a book, London, probably Southwark, dated 1665 and initialed “B./I.E”; a delft jug with armorial decoration, London, 1699; and a Charles …
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, may be this country’s oldest continuing museum…or it may not be. Given its other distinctions, that hardly matters. Founded in 1799 by the wealthy entrepreneurs of Salem whose merchant ships sailed to India, Japan, Africa, China, the Pacific Islands, and beyond, it began with the curious idea of presenting the citizens of Salem …