Jacob Lawrence, Market Scene (2021) The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
The Getty Foundation in Los Angeles will award 19 museums with grants totalling $1.55m as part of its Paper Project initiative, a programme that aims to support exhibitions and research centred on prints and drawings. “Although prints and drawings are the historic core of many museum collections, they do not often benefit from the spotlight of large exhibitions or glossy catalogues,” says Heather MacDonald, the senior programme officer at the Getty Foundation. “The motivation for supporting these projects, all led by mid-career curators, was to ensure their work had greater visibility, both within their own institution and to the field at large.”
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.- This summer, the McNay Art Museum presents two exhibitions of works on paper from American artists who helped shape the Conceptual and Op art movements; John Baldessari: California Dreaming and Optical Dazzle: Op Art at the McNay. This selection of works is offered at a timely moment, as two of the prolific artists featured died in 2020, just months apart from one another. These exhibitions also feature a new acquisition and a rarely-seen sculpture. On view through September 5, 2021 in the Charles Butt Paperworks Gallery, Optical Dazzle: Op Art at the McNay investigates the sensation of looking at art. Short for Optical Art, Op art emerged in the 1960s as a distinct style of art that creates the sense of illusion or movement. By the end of the decade, artist Richard Anuszkiewicz (pronounced Ah-nu-skey-vich) was one of the leading Op painters in America. The artists small, jewel-like prints on view at the McNay present color
New exhibition and publication highlight the multidimensional creativity of Alma W. Thomas
Alma Thomas (American, 18911978), Untitled, 1922/1924. Oil on canvas. The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection.
NORFOLK, VA
.- Renowned artist Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978) artistic journey took her from Columbus, Georgia, to international acclaim. Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful offers a comprehensive overview of her extraordinary career with more than 150 objects, including late-career paintings that have never before been exhibited or published. The exhibition debuts at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, July 9-Oct. 3, 2021. It will also visit The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022 and The Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, Feb. 25-June 5, 2022, before closing at The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, July 1, 2022-Sept. 25, 2022. The exhibition is co-organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and The Columbus Mus
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Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia hires new chief curator from Smithsonian
Alexander Mann. Photo: Libby Weiler.
SAVANNAH, GA
.-Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia the oldest public art museum in the South and the first U.S. museum founded by a woman has hired an accomplished art-world veteran as its new chief curator and director of curatorial affairs.
Crawford Alexander Mann III will join Telfair in November 2021 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he has been curator of prints and drawings since 2017. At the Smithsonian, Mann has organized world-class exhibitions including the major upcoming survey Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. Before the Smithsonian, he served as the Joan and Macon Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.