RALEIGH, NC (AP).- The Botticelli had happily hung in the North Carolina Museum of Art for more than a quarter-century, moving only a few feet over the years. But "The Adoration of the Child" was in for a surprise one October morning when three glove-wearing handlers swiftly removed the round painting in its gilded frame from the gallery entrance, placed it on a cart and pushed it through...
Crews in Raleigh, N.C. are transferring hundreds of pieces of art into a new building as part of a $79 million expansion at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The building opens next spring, and the art will appear in a whole new light. (Nov. 1
Crews in Raleigh, N.C. are transferring hundreds of pieces of art into a new building as part of a $138 million expansion at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The building opens next spring, and the art appear in a whole new light. (Nov. 17)
The Umstead Hotel & Spa announces the new show in its in-house Art Gallery, featuring the work of late artist George Bireline. (PRWeb Oct 25, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3101354.htm
The American Tobacco Campus' Strickland Bldg. lobby is gearing up for a new exhibition, this one by North Carolina artist Bob Timberlake, whose career and gallery showings stretch over a four decade period. From the ATC's release: Bob Timberlake is an internationally recognized realist artist who makes his home in Lexington, N.C. His illustrious career has included eight successful exhibitions at New...
TMBG's latest kidtastic venture, Here Comes Science , sees it's release on CD/DVD September 22, but three weeks ahead of that (next week!), Amazon and iTunes tag-team with some exclusive physical and digital (respectively) action. Pre-order via Amazon . As is the case with TMBG's children-oriented releases, having a kid is optional (but it does enhance the experience). Here's a special sneak peek in...
RALEIGN, NC. Visitors have a month to see their favorite works of art before the North Carolina Museum of Art building temporarily closes beginning Monday, September 7, for approximately seven months. The grand opening of the Museum expansion, a new 127,000-square-foot gallery building for the permanent collection, is scheduled for mid-April 2010. “We're preparing for a big move, but before the...
Continuing from this morning ... Luis Melendez, the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th-century, elevated simple, rustic objects into palace decorations for royals. A survey of his still-life paintings is on view at the National Gallery of Art until Aug. 23. This painting is the creatively-titled Still Life with Apples, Pears, Cheese, Jug, Boxes and Cask from 1760-1765. It's in a private...
The National Gallery of Art has announced that it'll be the latest museum to install a Roxy Paine tree in its sculpture garden. The Met currently has Paine trees installed on its roof. While the bigs get all the attention, it's worth remembering that the St. Louis Art Museum and the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth were there first. (The North Carolina Museum of Art is also installing a Paine tree.) Related...
Christian Mayr, Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, 1838 Courtesy North Carolina Museum of Art Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition "Jubilee: African American Celebration" Thursday, May 29, 2009 7:00 pm Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC Historian Patsy Fletcher’s research offers an aspect of nineteenth century African American life not...
DURHAM, NC.- Terrorism or Art? A well-received art exhibit at Duke University is being censored by the North Carolina state government. Duke University has been happy with Robert Mihaly's art exhibit at Duke's Louise Jones Brown Gallery. The University even pre-approved the artist's use of controversial elements such as human bones and depleted uranium, but a few
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announced today that it is in the final phases of its expansion initiative and on schedule to open a new 127,000 square foot home for the permanent collection in April 2010.
I’m taking some vacation days this week, just to take a break from things and work on some personal projects around the house. (I’ve moved the home office to the bigger bonus room, done weed killer on the whole yard, and taken a whole bunch of walks with the dogs). Today I took the camera [...]
The artist has died, at 91. Maybe I'm in the minority but this Andrew Wyeth, which I first saw at the North Carolina Museum of Art, has always been my favorite....
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