Museum Discovery Pass for Seven New York City LocationsBy STAN PARCHIN
February 27, 2010
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| Rubin Museum of Art (exterior). Photograph courtesy of Rubin Museum of Art. |
The
Rubin Museum of Art, New York's pre-eminent collection of paintings, sculptures and textiles from the Himalayas and surrounding regions, announced this week the inauguration of the Museum Discovery Pass.
The pass, good from March 1 to May 31, 2010, is redeemable for unlimited two-for-one admission to seven specialized New York City museums:
American Folk Art Museum;
Asia Society Museum;
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art;
Museum of Chinese in America;
The Noguchi Museum;
Rubin Museum of Art; and
The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Starting Monday, March 1, 2010, the wallet-sized pass can be printed from each museum's Web site. It will also be available at NYC & Company's Official Information Center located at 810 Seventh Avenue between West 52 and West 53 Streets.
Stephen J. Bury Appointed New Chief Librarian at
Frick Art Reference Library
By STAN PARCHIN
February 27, 2010
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| Dr. Stephen J. Bury, newly appointed Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian. Photograph provided by the Frick Collection. |
The
Frick Collection announced today the appointment of Stephen J. Bury to the position of Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library, effective May 2010. Dr. Bury is the Deputy Director and Head of European and American Collections at the British Library. He is also responsible for the Maps, Music and Philatelic Collections there.
EducationStephen J. Bury studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. He received advanced degrees in Library and Information Studies at University College, London and the University of Oxford. Bury completed his master's degree in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, London, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on art critic and social thinker John Ruskin (1819-1900).
ExperienceBury taught and lectured in the 1980s and 1990s at the Chelsea College of Art & Design, Royal College of Art, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design and Camberwall College of Arts. His courses ranged from printmaking to book arts to fine arts.
Dr. Bury curated some 14 special exhibitions on artists' books for the Chelsea College of Art & Design, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Dundee and the London Institute Gallery. At the British Library, he organized
Translation/Illustration (2000),
Iris Murdoch (2002),
1922 (2002, with Colin St. John Wilson) and
Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde (2008). Bury wrote the shows' catalogues and contributed to various publications, including
Art Monthly,
Print Quarterly,
The Times Literary Supplement and others. He was also Chair of the Board of Trustees at Matt’s Gallery, London and Book Works.
Prior to joining the British Library, Bury was Head of Learning Resources at the Chelsea College of Art & Design. He became the British Library's Head of Modern English Collections in 2000. In 2002, he was promoted to Head of European and American Collections. He currently leads the institution's involvement in the European Library and Europeanna, the European Library Management Board & Contacts Group, the Conference of European National Libraries/Federation of European Publishers and the UK National Book Committeee. Bury is the Chair of the ARLIS (Art Libraries Society) UK & Ireland National Co-ordination Committee as well as a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College.
At the British Library, Dr. Bury leads the Mellon-funded 21st Century Curator Project, a program that encourages staff to continue learning with new technologies in the field while promoting traditional skills such as historical bibliography, paleography and others in the library school curriculum. He also runs the Web Archiving Programme that deals with live online and ephemeral resources.
Medieval Costume Lecture Demonstration at The CloistersBy STAN PARCHIN
February 19, 2010
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| The Cloisters Museum and Gardens (exterior). Photograph by Robert Alan Espino. |
The
Cloisters Museum and Gardens,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's branch devoted to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, is hosting a medieval costume lecture demonstration on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. Offered in conjunction with the special exhibition
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (March 2-June 13, 2010), the event is free with museum admission.
Costume historian Desirée Koslin describes and discusses medieval costumes modeled by some 30 citizens of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, the original home of the three Limbourg brothers who produced the famed illuminated manuscripts known as the
Belles Heures and the
Très Riches Heures. Duchess Catherine of Cleves (1417-1476), her
Book of Hours the subject of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum (January 22-May 2, 2010), resided in a castle there for some time. All of the costumes on view are contemporary in construction, with a number of them having been inspired by ones depicted in the Limbourg brothers' two volumes. They include garments worn by dukes, duchesses, courtly ladies, merchants, citizens, servants and peasants.
Attendees may take photographs without flash of Nijmegen's costumed citizens during the presentation's intermission.
Italy Loans Greek and Roman Antiquities to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
By STAN PARCHIN
February 19, 2010
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| Attributed to the Boread Painter (Greek, Laconian). Kylix (Drinking Cup) (ca. 575-560 B.C.). Terracotta. Cerveteri, Banditaccia cemetery, tomb 1. Interior: Boreads pursuing harpies, with a sphinx below. Republic of Italy. |
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| Roman, Late Republic or Augustan (2nd half of 1st Century B.C.). Moregine Silver Treasury. Silver. Moregine, near Pompeii. Republic of Italy. |
As part of an ongoing exchange with the Republic of Italy, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting a Greek kylix (drinking cup) and a rare and recently excavated Roman dining set from Pompeii in its Greek and Roman Art Galleries.
Director Thomas P. Campbell said, "The presentation of these splendid works in New York, where they will be viewed by millions of visitors over the next four years, will deepen the public's knowledge and appreciation of ancient art, and will contribute immeasurably to their understanding of its significance."
The 2006 agreement between the museum and the Italian government called for the transfer of title and return of several antiquities, included the famous Euphronios Krater (ca. 515 B.C.). Sixteen pieces of Hellenistic silver (3rd Century B.C.) from Morgantina, Sicily were returned to Italy last month. These artifacts will be exhibited in each country on a rotating basis every four years. The Met received four loans from Italy in 2006 and 2008.
Kylix
The Laconian terracotta kylix (ca. 575-560 B.C.) from Sparta was exported to Italy in ancient times. Its mythological design shows two Boreads or wind gods rushing to castigate predatory harpies (winged female monsters). The work is on display on the east side of the first-floor Robert and Renée Belfer Court.
Moregine Silver Treasure
Known as the Moregine Silver Treasure, the 20 objects from the outskirts of Pompeii, one of three such sets in the world, include vessels for holding, serving and receiving food as well as receptacles for mixing, pouring and drinking liquids. Buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., they were excavated from the basement of an unfinished public bath house in 2000. Two prized cathari or drinking cups from late Hellenistic times were probably made in Alexandria, Egypt. They commemorate the historic Treaty of Brundisium (40 B.C.) between Mark Anthony and Octavian four years after the assassination of Julius Caesar. The arrangement gave Mark Anthony command of the eastern Roman provinces while Octavian ruled Italy and the West. The artifacts are installed in the museum's Hellenistic Treasury along with other antique luxury goods from the age of Alexander the Great to that of early imperial Rome.
Getty Museum Signs Deal with Sicilian Ministry of Culture
By STAN PARCHIN
February 17, 2010
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| Assessore Gaetano Armao and Acting Getty Museum Director David Bomford Sign Agreement on February 9, 2010. © J. Paul Getty Trust. |
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today details of an historic long-term collaboration with the Sicilian Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Identity. The agreement will result in joint efforts regarding special exhibitions, object conservation, earthquake protection of collections, scholarly research, conferences, museum practices and educational programs.
Acting Director David Bomford said, "I am delighted that the Getty Museum has reached a mutually beneficial agreement with our colleagues in Sicily that allows us to expand our relationship with Italy to this very important region for the study of the ancient Mediterranean. This accord is an extension of our 2007 agreement with the Italian Ministry of Culture, which paved the way for a number of important projects."
Special Exhibitions
Tentatively titled Between Greece and Rome: Sicily in the Classical and Hellenistic Period, the first international loan exhibition of antiquities scheduled to open at the Getty Villa in 2013 will focus on the art and civilization of the wealthy and powerful Greek colonies and their cities from the 5th through 3rd Centuries B.C.
The Getty Museum will also work with the Museo Archeologico Regionale "Antonino Salinas" in Palermo, the Superintendency of Trapani and Professor Clemente Marconi from the world-renowned Institute of Fine Arts at New York University to organize an exhibition on Selinunte (Selinos), an important Greek colonial settlement in southwestern Sicily. Selinunte is best known for its Greek archaic and classical temples.
Both presentations may travel to the Palazzo Aiutamicristo in Palermo, a center for the study of Sicilian art and culture.
Seismic Mitigation Conference
The Getty Museum's Department of Antiquities Conservation has organized annual international conferences devoted to seismic mitigation and minimizing earthquake damage to art museum collections in Los Angeles (2006), Istanbul (2007), Athens (2008) and Tokyo (2009). In partnership with the Centro Regionale per la Progettazione e il Restauro e per le Scienze Applicate ai Beni Culturali, the Getty is planning to hold this year's meeting in Sicily. A one-day workshop for museum technicians and conservators will be dedicated to seismic mount-making and related topics.
Object Conservation
The Getty Villa's state-of-the-art facilities will be used to treat Sicilian antiquities in need of conservation. The Marble Youth from Agrigento (ca. 480 B.C.) will arrive in California in Fall 2010 so that a custom-designed earthquake-resistant base can be fabricated for the sculpture. Once completed, the statue will be displayed temporarily with the Getty's permanent collection of ancient art in Malibu.
In preparation for Between Greece and Rome..., the marble Youth from Motya (ca. 480-450 B.C.) discovered in 1979 will be studied to create a new seismic restraint and enhance its appearance.
The Museo Archeologico di Aidone will loan to the Getty Villa objects related to the worship of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone that were unearthed at the archaeological site of Morgantina. After evaluation for possible conservation, the works will be incorporated into the museum's Gods and Goddesses gallery for one year.
Judith Keller Appointed Senior Curator of Photographs at J. Paul Getty Museum
By STAN PARCHIN
February 2, 2010
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| Judith Keller. © J. Paul Getty Trust. |
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| Alex Vertikoff. The J. Paul Getty Museum Courtyard at Dusk. 120 transparency. © 2003 J. Paul Getty Trust. |
The
J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the appointment of Judith Keller as its new Senior Curator of Photographs, effective immediately. Acting head of the department since January 2009, she succeeds retired founding Curator Weston Naef.
Education
Judith Keller received her bachelor's degree in art history and master's degree in museum practice and art history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She also completed course work for her doctorate in art history from the same institution.
Experience
Prior to arriving at the Getty Museum in 1986, Keller worked at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (1979-81) and the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery (now the Blanton Museum of Art) at the University of Texas at Austin as its Curator of Prints and Drawings.
Judith Keller joined the Getty Museum's staff as Associate Curator in 1986. She was promoted to Curator in 2008. In that capacity, she expanded the museum's holdings to include photographs by artists from East Asia, China, Japan and Korea. More than 900 works were added to the Getty's permanent collection in 2009 when Keller was Acting Senior Curator of Photographs. She's also the author of over 10 publications, among them
Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection (1995) and
Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling (2009).
Keller was responsible for more than 20 special exhibitions, including
William Eggleston and the Color Tradition (1999),
Strange Days: Photographs by Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, and Diane Arbus (2003),
Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection (2006) and
The Goat's Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide (2007). She has seven shows planned for 2010.
David Bomford, Acting Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, said, "After seeing the admirable manner in which Judith Keller has led the department for the past year, it became clear that she would be the ideal person to take it into the future. We look forward to seeing continued great things from Judy in her new official role.”