Arts to come alive at event
SPARTANBURG, SC – (PNAN) – Opening Thursday, January 19, 2017 during ArtWalk, the West Main Artists Co-Op headlines this event with two new art exhibits. In addition, at 7:00…
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Exhibit offers ‘spinning’ works of art
ATHENS, GA – (AAPNW) – “To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture” opens Saturday, January 21, 2017 at the Georgia Museum of Art through April 16,…
Youth to headline java concerts
HENDERSONVILLE, NC – (PNAN) Hometown concert pianist Christopher Tavernier will perform for two coffee-themed concerts on Friday, January 14 and Saturday, January 15, 2017 at the Hendersonville Community Theatre. These…
Works roar with power and beauty
PITTSBURGH, PA – (AAPNW) – Opening Friday, February 17, 2017 at the Andy Warhol Museum, “Firelei Báez: Bloodlines” features 15 works, including four new works that are exhibited in…
Artist’s ‘dreamworks’ come to life
LOS ANGELES, CA – (PNAN) – Opening Saturday, January 14, 2017 at Jason Vass, “Metamorphosis” features new works by sculptor Douglas Tausik Ryder, uses both traditional techniques as well as…
Icon’s sounds to fill the airways
OAKLAND, CA – (PNAN) – Performing at the Yoshis in Oakland on Saturday, January 21 and Sunday 22, 2017, Pete Escovedo (http://peteescovedo.com) leads one of the top Latin-Jazz Orchestras…
Two masterpieces join in show
HARTFORD, CT – (PNAN) – Two monumental scroll paintings by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) will be reunited for the first time in more than 130 years at the…
Museum celebrates quirks of cabin fever
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – (PNAN) – Prolonged cold and darkness drive Northerners into their homes, and often into themselves. This shared experience across Northern latitudes is known as cabin fever…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: New Mexico Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through March 12, 2017. Small Wonders SANTA FE, NM – (PNAN) – Selection of small contemporary photographic work are several…
Major work added to collection
The Andy Warhol Museum has acquired an early and important Warhol Pop art painting to add to its collection. Warhol’s “Do It Yourself” (Sailboats), painted in 1962 is one…
ND: Bismarck
Call for Nominations BRIEF ABOUT: North Dakota Council on the Arts seeks your assistance in recognizing these people by your submission of nominations for the 2017 Governor’s Awards for the…
Ho! Ho! Ho! ‘Santa Nita’ stopped by
For me, Nita Leland’s art books have always been a wonderful source of information; in fact, her newest, the 30th Anniversary Edition Exploring Color Workshop, was also like experiencing the…
CT: Hartford
WHERE: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. WHEN: Opening Saturday, September 10 and on view through December 11, 2016. The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the…
GA: Athens
WHERE: Georgia Museum of Art. WHEN: Opens Saturday, September 17 and on view through December 11, 2016. Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883–1950 This show will feature…
MI: Detroit
WHERE: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. WHEN: Goes on view Friday, September 9, 2016 through January 1, 2017. Note: An Artist’s Talk is set for Saturday, September 10 at…
NY: Rochester
WHERE: Rochester Contemporary Art Center. WHEN: Opens Friday, October 7 from 6:00-9:00 pm and runs through November 13, 2016. Note: There will be an Artists’ Talk on Saturday, October 8…
AK: Alaska
WHERE: Anchorage Museum. WHEN: Opens Friday, September 30, 2016 through February 6, 2017. Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations Curated by Sonya Kelliher-Combs, this exhibition combines a series of public programs and…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: David Richard Gallery. WHEN: Friday, September 9 through November 6, 2016. The Santa Fe Art Project In this inaugural edition, eight curators from Santa Fe features over 50 established…
NY: Rochester
WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery. WHEN: Sunday, August 21 through October 16, 2016. BRIEF ABOUT: Two complementary exhibitions, Afghan War Rugs and War Memoranda examine the impact of war and…
‘Creams of the crop’ goes on view
The South Dakota Governor’s 7th Biennial Art Exhibition goes on view from Friday, August 19 through Saturday, December 10, 2016 at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South…
IN: Lafayette
Call for Artists BRIEF ABOUT: The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra is holding Orchestra auditions on Sunday, August 20, 2016 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and on Monday, August 21, 2016…
CA: San Francisco
WHERE: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. WHEN: September 3, 2016 through June 25, 2017. Leslie and Merle Rabine Performance Season BRIEF ABOUT: YBCA is spotlighting artists whose…
SC: Spartanburg
WHERE: Spartanburg Library. WHEN: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 beginning at 12:15 pm. BRIEF ABOUT: This special lunchtime concert will feature two of Western North Carolina’s most celebrated and talented young…
Museum one of the bests
The highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums was awarded to the Indianapolis Museum of Art by the American Alliance of Museums. Museums belonging to AAM must undergo a reaccreditation…
Detroit museum given Fellows funds
The Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit (MOCAD) has been awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to support Curatorial Fellows to begin in January 2017. The Ford Curatorial Fellowship provides…
Visual shocks of what ifs
Organized by Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings at the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center, “Heavy Heavy Hands Over Thy Head” is an exhibition that looks at…
VA: Norfolk
WHERE: Glass Wheel Studio WHEN: Saturday, June 4 through July 10, 2016 Just Between Us BRIEF ABOUT: This is the first exhibition of works created during Glass Wheel’s inaugural…
Peg Sagen People’s Choice Award
“In July 2015, I went to Banff National Park and for two nights stayed at the most incredible place called the Num-Ti-Jah Lodge, which is an old hunting lodge…
East Coast museum adds to collection
New works of art by major artists, a 17th-century Dutch landscape by Salomon Jacobsz van Ruysdael and a portrait by contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley, were acquired by the Wadsworth…
Sculptural work has new home
Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina has received a painted-steel nonobjective sculpture by the noted artist David Hayes. The multisided sculpture is painted in bright primary colors and sits…
Another decade for ‘Doc’ Venable
Dr. Charles L. Venable and the Board have signed an employment agreement which provides for Venable to continue to serve for up to 10 more years as The Melvin &…
A show of memory lane works
Internationally exhibited artist Victor Matthews works are on view at KM Fine Arts in Los Angeles through July 9, 2016. Artist Matthews solo installation, “The Longest Road” exhibition functions as…
Viewers can expect works of power
Going on view, Friday, June 3, 2016 and featuring the work of 60 different artists, this exhibition includes powerful, representative work by some of the biggest names in the…
Major show soon to open
Opening at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday, June 4, 2016, this major international exhibition will feature two significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries:…
The ‘Hills’ to ring with the sound of music
The Rushmore Music Festival’s opening concert is entitled “Songs, Dances, and Jokes” which will have goers groovin’, laughin’ and cryin’ with music by Antonin Dvořák, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Cole…
Museum takes step towards $$$ stability
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will pay off more than $17 million in outstanding debt by the end of 2016. This will mark the first time since 2004 that the…
Lakota artist to show his ‘stuff’
Opening on Friday, June 3, 2016 in the Ruth Brennan Gallery at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, “Cut & Paste” is an exhibit showcasing the…
FL: Miami
WHERE: Frost Art Museum WHEN: Opens Saturday, May 14, 2016. The Summer of Women BRIEF ABOUT: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum launches The Summer of Women with powerful…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: David Richard Gallery. WHEN: Friday, May 13 through June 25, 2016. Note: An Opening Reception will be from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Friday. BRIEF ABOUT: “The Narrative Figure 
‘Eyes+Hands’ forge a new style
On view through July 11, 2016 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, the exhibition, “The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film” explores how…
New Director of Education chosen
Anne Butler Rice became the new Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, located in Hartford, Connecticut. In her new post, Rice will oversee…
‘Tribute show’ to the greatest
Opening Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at the musée du quai Branly, located along the Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the exhibition, “Matahoata, Arts…
In the ‘big top arena’ once again
Last exhibited in 1986, at the Museum of International Folk Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Morris Miniature Circus is a 3/8″-scale model of a 1920s circus, built…
London painter is a first
The exhibit opening of Glenn Brown is slated for Saturday, May 21, 2016 at the Des Moines Art Center in the Anna K. Meredith Gallery with approximately 25 paintings, sculptures,…
IMA to be in full ‘bloom’
Guests to the gardens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art will be among the first to discover more than 70,000 blooming bulbs, including 20,000 new tulips planted last fall…
‘Money-maker’ new to the payroll
Former Spartanburg’s Hope Center for Children as the Director of Development Lisa A. Hemond of Inman, South Carolina became the Senior Development Director for the Chapman Cultural Center. Her responsibilities…
Miller’s ‘skins’ to be showcased
Opening Friday, April 1, 2016 at the Missoula Art Museum in Montana, features the talent and creative process in the form of a site-specific installation entitled, “Abbie Miller: Exit Strategies”…
Museum names new ‘plant doctor’
Following a national search, former horticulturist at the Chanticleer Foundation in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Jonathan M. Wright has been named the Ruth Lilly Deputy Director for Horticulture and Natural Resources at…
New heads at GMA
Heather Malcom becomes the director of development and Keith Thalhamer, the director of security and facilities at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in…
New ‘historical shaker’ at the helm
Suzanne Brooks is the new Executive Director for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. Brooks joins SCHA with experience in historic preservation, advocacy, education and outreach. She looks to engage the…