Woodmere Art Museum extends Group 55 and Midcentury Modernism in Philadelphia exhibition
Sanford Greenberg, No. 24, 1955. Oil on canvas, 14 1/4 x 20 in. (Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2014)
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.- In 1955, a group of Philadelphia painters, architects, musicians, and dancers organized a series of exhibitions and public forums across the city, presenting their work as a catalyst for vigorous public dialogue about the role of art and science in the postwar era. Group 55, as they came to be known, included architect Louis Kahn, composer George Rochberg, and artists Quita Brodhead, Michael Ciliberti, Sam Feinstein, Sam Fried, Sanford Greenberg, Raymond Hendler, Jane Piper, and Doris Staffel.
Rose Art Museum receives record number of gifts of art for its 60th anniversary
James Ari Montford, The Annunciation, 2015. Mixed media collage with oil crayon and paper. Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Purchased with a gift from members of the class of 73 and 74, 2020.3.2.
WALTHAM, MASS
.-The Rose Art Museum announced the gift of 86 works of art in honor of the museums 60th anniversary. This trove of artworks by established and emerging artists includes significant pieces by Francesco Clemente, Renee Cox, Jim Dine, Jenny Holzer, Wakamatsu Koichiro, Danny Lyon, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Jenny Holzer, Tracey Moffatt, Pablo Picasso, Betye Saar, Dahn Vo, and Andy Warhol among others. Many new works entering the Roses permanent collection enrich existing holdings by the same artists, while others expand and deepen the collection with new and underrepresented artists.
Whitney lays off 15 workers amid mounting financial losses
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019 (Whitney Museum of American Art). Photograph by Sean Sime.
by Colin Moynihan
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Another round of coronavirus staff reductions has come to the Whitney Museum of American Art, as 15 workers in 11 departments were told they were being laid off, the museums director, Adam Weinberg, said in an email to employees last week.
The move was cast as part of an ongoing attempt to address the dire financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs were first reported by Artnet News.
If the stele was united it would measure 2.1 meters (6.89 ft.) tall. The king depicted on the stele ruled between 810 BC and 783 BC. His stance shows the ruler alongside sacred symbols: the winged sun disc of Shamash; the star of Ishtar; and the thunderbolt of the weather god Adad. The king holds his right hand in a gesture of worship while his left hand contains a mace.
There is also cuneiform script on the sides and across the front of the king’s body. It reads:
“…Negal-eres, governor of the country of Rasappa… presented an image of Adad-nerari III, king of Assyria, his lord, to the god Salmanu, his lord, who protects the throne of his priesthood, to give into his hands the sceptre that shepherds the people, for the well-being of his seed, the well-being of the people of Assyria and the well-being of Assyria, to scatter his adversaries, to destroy his fierce foes, to subdue his enemy princes.”
George Eastman Museum receives 20 reels of rare 35mm nitrate films
The Gold Rush (1925). Tinted nitrate print.
ROCHESTER, NY
.-The George Eastman Museum has recently received a donation of 20 reels, from 12 identified titles, of rare 35mm nitrate and diacetate film prints from historian John Goodman of Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
We are very grateful to Mr. Goodman for this donation of nitrate films, said Peter Bagrov, Curator in Charge of the Moving Image Department, George Eastman Museum. The gift contains several rarities including a vintage tinted reel of Charlie Chaplins The Gold Rush, made in 1925. Its a bit of a mystery, Bagrov added. Chaplin himself was not fond of tinting, and all of the known release prints of this film are in black and white. Even though the print is incomplete, this beautifully tinted reel is a great discovery and adds a new dimension to our understanding of how films were presented during the silent era.