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UGA MFA 2020 to open online tonight
Friday, April 10, 2020
This year’s Master of Fine Art Degree Candidates Exhibition was planned to take place at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia April 11 through May 17, with an opening reception the evening of April 10. The annual exhibition highlights graduating master’s students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and is a tradition going back decades. The COVID-19 outbreak and cautionary measures d...
Georgia Museum of Art adapts rapidly to serve community
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Even before the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia decided to close to the public, its staff was hard at work planning how to move its activities online. The museum is a much-used public space as well as a teaching and research institution, and its staff and docents serve tens of thousands of visitors a year with tours and programs. Instead of turning inward, the museum’s staff saw...
Georgia Museum of Art receives large gift of “cutting-edge” contemporary art
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Donation includes 110 works by artists including Damien Hirst The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received a major gift from John and Sara Shlesinger consisting of 110 contemporary works of art from the Shlesingers’ personal collection, spanning a wide variety of artists and mediums. A partial list of artists represented in the donation includes Damien Hirst, Dani...
Lost painting by Cecilia Beaux finds new home in Georgia
Friday, February 28, 2020
This February, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is launching a new series of long-term exhibitions installed in its permanent collection. The “In Dialogue” series creates focused, innovative conversations around a single work of art from the permanent collection. The first “In Dialogue” opens February 28, running through November 15, and features Cecilia Beaux’s painting “Twi...
Rediscovering a talented lithographer
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Athens, GA — A well-known lithographer in the 1930s and 1940s, Victoria Hutson Huntley made works that were popular with museums and collectors. Her lithographs highlighted subjects including landscapes, human figures and the natural world. In the middle of her career, she spent several years in Florida, and she often featured the Everglades and its flora and fauna in her work. She was a meticulou...