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Category: Museums

  • Gallery of the Golden Age, Amsterdam

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    Art museums are like icebergs, in that only a small part of their collection is visible at any given time. It’s always a plus when museums manage to display normally unseen works in different venues. Three museums in Amsterdam, the Rijskmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum and the Hermitage Amsterdam, are launching a joint long-term exhibit, called…

  • The Monuments Men at the Met: Treasures Saved During World War II

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    As well they should, a number of art museums are seeking to increase public interest by arranging tours, virtual or otherwise, of works in their collection relevant to the new feature film, The Monuments Men. These can be works either recovered, or preemptively protected from the Nazi’s attempt to accumulate — and potentially destroy —…

  • Museum Day, 2013

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    This Saturday, September 28, 2013, is Museum Day, when hundreds of museums across the U.S. offer free admission. Participation is limited to two tickets per household, and must be ordered online in advance (I think you can order on Saturday before you go). Search for participating museums near you by address or by state. The…

  • New website for National Gallery of Art

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    The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is one of the great art museums in the U.S., and a national treasure on which I am happy to see my tax dollars spent. The NGA has long had a web presence, but it has never been quite what those of us who admire the museum’s…

  • Art Museum Day 2013

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    Not to be confused with the more general Museum Day in September, which is sponsored by Smithsonian magazine (my post here), Art Museum Day is a relatively new event, started last year, that is sponsored by the Association of Art Museum Directors. This Saturday, May 18, 2013, participating art museums in the U.S. Canada and…

  • Girl With a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings From the Mauritshuis

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    While the Mauritshuis, The Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague, Netherlands, is undergoing renovations, some 35 wonderful examples of their extraordinary collection of paintings are touring the US. The group includes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, as well as treasures by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Carel Fabritius, Rachel Ruysch, Jan Steen, Jacob von Ryisdael and…