Meadows Museum celebrates the 20th anniversary of its 66,000-square-foot building
Exterior of the Meadows Museum and its sculpture plaza with Santiago Calatravas Wave (2002) in foreground and Gerald J. Ford Stadium in background. Photo by Hillsman Jackson.
DALLAS, TX
.- This year marks the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Meadows s 66,000-square-foot building, which is six times larger than the museums original space. Since its opening in 2001, the Meadows has become one of the most prominent university art museums in the country. It is internationally recognized for the quality of its collection of Spanish masterpieces by old masters to contemporary artists with one of the largest holdings of Spanish art outside of Spain. Artists represented include Velázquez, Ribera, El Greco, Murillo, Goya, Miró, Picasso and Dalí. Devotion to scholarship, innovative interpretation and prestigious partnerships with major art institutions and cultural organizations have made the
At an online symposium this week, two former leaders of the Berkshire Museum â Van Shields, its executive director, and Elizabeth McGraw, its board chair â are scheduled to discuss the institution s sale of art in 2018. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
PITTSFIELD â Though Van Shields and Elizabeth McGraw no longer are with the Berkshire Museum, they will reunite this week to explain the museumâs drive to sell its most valuable art a few years back. People who opposed that sale may or may not be heard.
Shields and McGraw will appear Thursday as members of an online panel in a symposium titled âDeaccessioning after 2020,â sponsored by Syracuse Universityâs College of Law and Graduate Program in Museum Studies.
Lucas Cranach the Elder s Lucretia, which netted $4.2m when it was sold by the Brooklyn Museum at Christie s in October. The sale was intended to help finance the institution s collections care under the relaxed guidelines of the Association of Art Museum Directors
In an informal poll, members of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) have voted 91-88 against asking its trustees to explore a controversial change in its deaccessioning policy to permit institutions to sell art to finance direct care of their collections.
Under an unusual moratorium, such sales are currently permitted by the AAMD for two years, until April 2022, to give museums some flexibility as they struggle with financial shortfalls related to their Covid-19 shutdowns. Previously the association has imposed penalties on museums that sold off art to shore up their finances.
More than 126 years after his death, William Thompson Walters, a founder of the Baltimore art museum that bears his name, is finally getting his day of reckoning.
Museums mull selling art after a brutal year but doing so is complicated
Officials at Dallas museums say they have no such plans, but donors are already taking steps to guard against it.
From right to left, Laren McDowell, Laura Borinsky and Cara Darden look at The Last Supper, 1986, one of Andy Warhol s paintings that is on exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2010.(DAVID WOO/Staff Photographer)
We live in an age when a single painting can sell for $450.3 million. It happened in 2017, when the Saudi crown prince seized the moment during a high-profile auction and won the title to Leonardo da Vinci’s