Dale L. Couch, the Georgia Museum of Art’s curator of decorative art and director of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, will officially retire this year (at the end of Feb...
Late last month, the Georgia Museum of Art received two awards at the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries (GAMG) annual conference for outstanding achievements in the categories of Museum Pro...
On January 26, more than 300 guests arrived at the Georgia Museum of Art for Elegant Salute, its biennial fundraiser. The theme of the event was “An Imperial Evening,” coinciding with the museum’s new...
There truly is no place like home. Athens constantly proves the truth of that proverb, with so many native Athenians finding that no matter how long they’re gone, all roads lead back to Athens in the ...
This February, in conjunction with exhibitions displaying works by African American artists, the Georgia Museum of Art will host its annual Black History Month Dinner and Awards Celebration. The event...
The next Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia — is scheduled for Thursday, January 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Spring semester is about to begin at the university, and the Georgia Museum of Art has a full schedule of lectures and artist talks over the course of the next few months.
When asked to describe the Georgia Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II,” head preparator Todd Rivers said that it stands out to him in two distinct ways.
Just over 45 minutes away from the Georgia Museum of Art and tucked into a landscape of green fields is the Steffen Thomas Museum in Buckhead, Georgia.
Kincaid uses digital media both to create manufactured “photographs” and to deconstruct and radically reorder segments of photograph into pure color and form.
University students of every discipline are constantly looking to the future. With academic deadlines and seemingly endless lists of internships and applications to complete, it can be difficult to im...
Today marks the start of a 10-day festival at the University of Georgia celebrating the visual, literary and performing arts. In its seventh year, Spotlight on the Arts features dozens of events, exhi...
The annual Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau meeting featured a lot of numbers, facts and figures, but what really stood out to the audience was guest speaker Lisa Love’s less quantifiable assessm...
The annual meeting for the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) took place October 8–10, and the Georgia Museum of Art was well represented. This year’s conference was in Jackson, Mississippi, and o...
The Georgia Museum of Art has impressive holdings of 20th- and 21st-century wood art thanks to the expansive gift of Jane and Arthur Mason a few years back. Despite its wide variety of craft, the muse...
Richard Hunt’s career has spanned six decades, and although the artist is now in his 80s, he continues to create large-scale public commissions. The sculptor’s work will be on view at the Georgia Muse...
In mid-July, the University of Georgia announced that, for the fifth consecutive year, UGA donors set a record in fundraising, contributing a total of $242 million in new gifts and pledges to the Comm...
Each semester, the Georgia Museum of Art has student interns from departments and units across campus. Penske McCormack is currently an intern for the department of communications and a student at the...
Starting November 1, visitors to the Georgia Museum of Art can experience the work of Rebecca Rutstein in a new exhibition titled “Out of the Darkness: Light in the Depths of the Sea of Cortez.” Compr...
