Smithsonian Museum of African Art to Repatriate Looted Benin Artifacts
Last week the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art announced that it had removed all its Benin bronzes from display […]
art history
Viewing American-Soviet Cold War Relations through the Lens of Art
By Ksenia Nouril
Dreamworlds and Catastrophes frames the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union within the period of its own conception. In this way, it honors the collecting history and legacy of Norton Dodge (1927-2011)—an inimitable mediator—whose commitment to this kind of art continues to shape an understanding of the transnational exchanges in art and culture during the Cold War.
Two Significant PA Foundations to Merge
The Barnes Foundation and the Violette de Mazia Foundation will merge in the coming months.
Wendy Bellion receives Charles C. Eldredge Prize
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Congratulations to Wendy Bellion, who has received the 2014 Charles C. Eldredge Prize from […]