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Georgia Museum of Art wins award for “Richard Hunt” exhibition
Friday, February 14, 2020
Athens, GA — This January, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received the award for exhibition of the year at the Georgia Association of Museums Conference for the exhibition “Richard Hunt: Synthesis.” The conference was held in Columbus, Georgia, January 26 – 29, 2020.
“Richard Hunt: Synthesis” was on view at the Georgia Museum of Art October 20, 2018 – February 3, 2019...
Artist Kevin Cole to receive Georgia award
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and the 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment, which franchised African American men. The journey of black men and women against disenfranchisement has been a long, challenging one that continues today. To honor this complex history, the Association for the Study of African American Life a...
21st-century students get inspired by 17th-century art
Thursday, January 16, 2020
During the 2019 fall semester, University of Georgia students in two classes at the Lamar Dodd School of Art spent hours at the Georgia Museum of Art, looking through prints in the museum’s collection. Now, the product of their work, the exhibition “Reflecting on Rembrandt: 500 Years of Etching,” will be on view from January 18 to April 19, 2020, celebrating the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s de...
Tiffany glass exhibition to be on display at UGA
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Although best known for his work in glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany worked in nearly all the media available to artists and designers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A celebration of his works, “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection,” featuring more than 60 objects and spanning over 30 years of his prolific career, is coming to the Georgia Museum of Art at the Unive...
Georgia Museum of Art to feature Italian Renaissance drawings
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
When we think of Renaissance art, we usually think of paintings, but from the 16th century on Italian artists focused on drawing just as much if not more so. Giorgio Vasari, an influential Italian painter, architect and historian, regarded disegno (which means “drawing” or “design”) as the foundation of visual art. Disegno was considered the basis of an artist’s training and an essential tool for ...