Taiwan's National Palace Museum to open first-ever joint exhibition with ChinaOctober 2nd, 2009 Taiwan museum to open joint exhibition with ChinaTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's National Palace Museum said Friday it will open its first-ever joint exhibition with China next week, 60 years after they split amid civil war. The exhibition reunites treasures from China with those that Beijing has long said were stolen when they were taken to Taiwan.
Gap founders' contemporary art collection finds a home at San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSeptember 25th, 2009 Fisher art collection to be housed in San FranSAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will house one of the world's great contemporary art collections after forming a partnership with Gap Inc. founders Don and Doris Fisher to house the couple's some 1,100 works.
Armed thieves steal Magritte painting from small Belgian museumSeptember 24th, 2009 Belgium: thieves make off with Magritte paintingBRUSSELS — Two armed robbers made off with a $1.1 million painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte in a morning heist at a small museum in the Belgian capital on Thursday. Brussels city police spokesman Johan Berckmans says the two men escaped with the 1948 "Olympia" oil painting by car on Thursday after holding museum staff and tourists at gunpoint.
NY's Metropolitan Museum of Art reattributes painting to 17th-century Spanish master VelazquezSeptember 10th, 2009 NY's Met museum reattributes painting to VelazquezNEW YORK — New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reattributed a painting in its collection to the 17th-century Spanish master Velazquez. The museum had previously ascribed the portrait to the workshop of Velazquez, not to the artist himself.
Allentown, Pa., museum acquires collection from estate of modernist artist Peter GrippeSeptember 1st, 2009 Pa. museum gets artist Peter Grippe's collectionALLENTOWN, Pa. — An eastern Pennsylvania art museum has received one of its largest gifts ever — about 500 works and property once owned by modernist artist Peter Grippe.
Nude model briefly adds self to permanent collection at The Met museum in NYC for photo shootAugust 27th, 2009 Nude model arrested in pic shoot at The Met in NYCNEW YORK — It seems the only nudes allowed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are the ones in the collection. Police say they arrested a 26-year-old woman who was posing naked for a photographer, and in full view of visitors, in the museum's arms and armor department on Wednesday.
Vermeer's 'Milkmaid' to be loaned to NYC museum for autumn exhibition of Dutch master's workAugust 12th, 2009 Vermeer's 'Milkmaid' to be loaned to NYC museumNEW YORK — Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "The Milkmaid" is coming to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art for a special exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch artist. The exhibition opens Sept.
Mona Lisa painting undamaged in mug-throwing incident at LouvreAugust 11th, 2009 Russian tourist hurls mug at Mona Lisa in LouvrePARIS — The Louvre Museum says a Russian visitor hurled an empty terra cotta mug at the Mona Lisa. A museum spokesman says the canvas of the Da Vinci masterpiece was undamaged in the attack last week, though the mug shattered.
Appeals court rules Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has no right to Fisk University art collectionJuly 15th, 2009 Court: O'Keeffe museum has no right to Fisk U. artNASHVILLE, Tenn.
Greece's New Acropolis Museum receives hundreds of visitors on opening dayJune 21st, 2009 Greece's New Acropolis Museum opens to visitorsATHENS, Greece — The new Acropolis Museum opened its gates Sunday to hundreds of visitors eager to explore its vast collection of sculptures and artifacts from ancient Greece. The museum holds more than 4,000 ancient works, including some of the best surviving classical sculptures that once adorned the Acropolis.
Architect Rafael Vinoly lets art be the star in his Cleveland Museum of Art expansionJune 19th, 2009 Art 'in its own glory' in bigger Cleveland museumCLEVELAND — Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Rodin and other masters are the stars of the biggest expansion in the history of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and that suits architect Rafael Vinoly just fine. "When you feel that you are looking at the art and that the building accompanies the art — as opposed to opposes it or challenging it — I think I feel happy with that," Vinoly said.
For 80th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth, museum will display her actual diariesJune 11th, 2009 Anne Frank museum to display her actual diariesAMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House museum says it will put the teenage Holocaust victim's diaries and other writings on permanent display to commemorate what would have been her 80th birthday on Friday. Frank died in a concentration camp at 15.
New Smithsonian exhibit shows the complex variety, life of antsMay 29th, 2009 Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibitWASHINGTON — Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway. A new exhibit, "Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Hidden Life of Ants," opens Saturday at the National Museum of Natural History and continues through Oct.
Thieves steal 6 landscape paintings from Dutch museum, the country's 2nd art heist this monthMay 12th, 2009 6 landscape paintings stolen from Dutch museumAMSTERDAM — Thieves pried open the emergency door of a small Dutch museum with an iron bar and made off with six 17th- and 19th-century landscape paintings — the second major art heist in 10 days in the Netherlands. The break-in at 3 a.m.
Norman Rockwell's reinstalled studio opens to the publicMay 4th, 2009 Norman Rockwell's reinstalled studio opensSTOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Norman Rockwell Museum has taken the artist's studio back in time to 1960.
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