Closing soon at Maine museum: Judy Glickman Lauder photography collection

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Richard Avedon, ‘Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D’Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan, evening dresses by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim’s, Paris, August 1959,’ 1959. Gelatin silver print. Judy Glickman Lauder collection, museum purchase with gift in honor of Judith Glickman Lauder, 2020.7

Richard Avedon, ‘Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D’Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan, evening dresses by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim’s, Paris, August 1959,’ 1959. Gelatin silver print. Judy Glickman Lauder collection, museum purchase with gift in honor of Judith Glickman Lauder, 2020.7

PORTLAND, Maine – The Portland Museum of Art has unveiled Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder. It will remain on display through January 15.

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Stax Museum taps legendary Booker T. Jones for 2023 20th anniversary announcement

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Booker T. Jones plays piano at the Petaluma Wine, Jazz, and Blues Festival, August 2009. Photo by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – During a special event held today, September 14, 2022, at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Soulsville Foundation officials, former Stax artists, and others announced plans for the museum’s 20th anniversary to be celebrated throughout 2023.

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Edward Hopper, Manhattan Bridge, 1925–26. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (35.4 × 50.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1098 © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Whitney exhibition examines Edward Hopper’s life in New York City

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Edward Hopper, Manhattan Bridge, 1925–26. Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (35.4 × 50.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1098 © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

NEW YORK — Edward Hopper’s New York, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from October 19, 2022, through March 5, 2023, offers an unprecedented examination of Hopper’s life and work in the city that he called home for nearly six decades (1908–67). The exhibition charts the artist’s enduring fascination with the city through more than 200 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings from the Whitney’s preeminent collection of Hopper’s work, loans from public and private collections, and archival materials including printed ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and notebooks. From early sketches to paintings from his late in his career, Edward Hopper’s New York reveals a vision of the metropolis that is as much a manifestation of Hopper himself as it is a record of a changing city, whose perpetual and sometimes tense reinvention feels particularly relevant today.

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Catherine Opie, ‘John,’ 2013, printed 2022. Collection of John Waters © Catherine Opie. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London

John Waters’ personal art collection on show at BMA this fall

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Catherine Opie, ‘John,’ 2013, printed 2022. Collection of John Waters © Catherine Opie. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London

Catherine Opie, ‘John,’ 2013, printed 2022. Collection of John Waters © Catherine Opie. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) is showcasing approximately 90 works from the collection of John Waters that provide an insider’s look at the Baltimore icon’s tastes in fine art. The artworks are drawn from the 372 objects that Waters is giving to the museum as part of his bequest, marking the first presentation of works from the gift since its announcement in fall 2020. The exhibition, titled Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection, is guest-curated by photographer Catherine Opie and artist Jack Pierson, both of whom have been friends with Waters for many years and are represented in his collection. Through their collaboration, Waters’ collected works are examined through a particularly intimate lens, offering audiences a distinct sense of his singular sensibilities. On view from November 20 through April 16, 2023, Coming Attractions will be presented in the BMA’s Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs.

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Jackie Robinson Museum opens after 14 years of planning

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Public domain image of Jackie Robinson from the LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection at The Library of Congress. Photo by LOOK Magazine photographer Bob Sandberg

NEW YORK (AP) – Long dreamed about and in development for longer than the big league career of the man it honors, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened Tuesday in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the widow of the barrier-breaking ballplayer and two of his children.

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Cecilia Vicuna, ‘Autobiografia (Autobiography),’ 1971. Oil on canvas, 59.7 by 64.1 cm. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase, Elizabeth W. Russell Foundation Fund, 2019. Photo: Matthew Herrmann, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. © Cecilia Vicuna

Guggenheim gives Cecilia Vicuna her first New York museum solo show

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Cecilia Vicuna, ‘Autobiografia (Autobiography),’ 1971. Oil on canvas, 59.7 by 64.1 cm. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase, Elizabeth W. Russell Foundation Fund, 2019. Photo: Matthew Herrmann, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. © Cecilia Vicuna

Cecilia Vicuna, ‘Autobiografia (Autobiography),’ 1971. Oil on canvas, 59.7 by 64.1 cm. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum purchase, Elizabeth W. Russell Foundation Fund, 2019. Photo: Matthew Herrmann, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. © Cecilia Vicuna

NEW YORK — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Chilean artist, poet, activist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuna (b. 1948-), who has been based in New York for the last 40 years. Titled Cecilia Vicuna: Spin Spin Triangulene, it opens May 27 and continues through September 5.

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Exterior of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, which announced plans to add an education gallery to teach visitors about the beloved automotive brand. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Jonrev at English Wikipedia, who released it into the public domain.

National Corvette Museum to add 2,000 sq ft education gallery

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Exterior of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, which announced plans to add an education gallery to teach visitors about the beloved automotive brand. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Jonrev at English Wikipedia, who released it into the public domain.

Exterior of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, which announced plans to add an education gallery to teach visitors about the beloved automotive brand. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Jonrev at English Wikipedia, who released it into the public domain.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) – The National Corvette Museum in Kentucky says it’s adding an education gallery that will feature artifacts and interactive technology to share the brand’s story. Construction of the 2,000-square-foot gallery is set to begin in late May, museum officials said. The gallery is scheduled to open late this year or in early 2023 at the Bowling Green-based museum.

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Entrance to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The museum will close in early May and remain closed for about two years while an $100 million pavilion is constructed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit: akasped, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Omaha art museum to close for two-year construction project

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Entrance to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The museum will close in early May and remain closed for about two years while an $100 million pavilion is constructed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit: akasped, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Entrance to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The museum will close in early May and remain closed for about two years while an $100 million pavilion is constructed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit: akasped, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Omaha’s premier art museum is set to close its doors later this spring and stay closed for about two years as a new multi-million dollar pavilion is constructed. The Joslyn Art Museum near downtown Omaha will close on May 2 for construction of a new $100 million pavilion, which has already begun, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

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Dorothea Lange, ‘One of Chris Adolph’s Younger Children‚’ 1939 (printed later). Gelatin silver print from Library of Congress negative, 10.5in by 13.5in., Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Ore., The Bill Rhoades Collection, a gift in memory of Murna and Vay Rhoades, 2018.008.013

Hallie Ford Museum of Art sets focus on Northwest photography

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Dorothea Lange, ‘One of Chris Adolph’s Younger Children‚’ 1939 (printed later). Gelatin silver print from Library of Congress negative, 10.5in by 13.5in., Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Ore., The Bill Rhoades Collection, a gift in memory of Murna and Vay Rhoades, 2018.008.013

Dorothea Lange, ‘One of Chris Adolph’s Younger Children‚’ 1939 (printed later). Gelatin silver print from Library of Congress negative, 10.5in by 13.5in, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Ore., The Bill Rhoades Collection, a gift in memory of Murna and Vay Rhoades, 2018.008.013

SALEM, Ore. – The Hallie Ford Museum of Art (HFMA) is pleased to present Depth of Field: Selections from the Bill Rhoades Collection of Northwest Photography, which is currently on view and continues through April 23 in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center. Organized by curator Jonathan Bucci in collaboration with the collector, the exhibition presents a range of Northwest photographs donated to the HFMA by Bill Rhoades of Madras, Oregon.

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Roberto Lugo, ‘2 Queens,’ 2018. Porcelain, china paint and luster. © Roberto Lugo. 2019.100

Worcester museum’s ‘Us Them We’ surveys socio-political landscape

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Roberto Lugo, ‘2 Queens,’ 2018. Porcelain, china paint and luster. © Roberto Lugo. 2019.100

Roberto Lugo, ‘2 Queens,’ 2018. Porcelain, china paint and luster. © Roberto Lugo. 2019.100

WORCESTER, Mass. — In February 2022, the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) will present its new exhibition Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity, an in-depth look at how contemporary artists since the mid-1970s have used formal artistic devices in their work — such as text, juxtaposition, pattern, and seriality — to explore socio-political concepts. The exhibition opens February 19 and runs through Juneteenth, which takes place on June 19.

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