Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
-- Second thoughts: The first family has apparently changed its mind about an artwork by Alma W. Thomas titled "Watusi (Hard Edge)" that was chosen in October to hang in Michelle Obama's office. (ARTnews and Washington Post) -- Tough times...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine is hiring the longtime director of a Maryland museum to take its top spot.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine is hiring the longtime director of a Maryland museum to take its top spot.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine is hiring the longtime director of a Maryland museum to take its top spot.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, is hiring the longtime director of a Maryland museum to take its top spot.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
ROCKLAND, ME.- The Farnsworth Art Museum announced an endowment campaign in celebration of the life and artistic legacy of Andrew Wyeth. The Andrew Wyeth Memorial Endowment, a $12 million campaign, will provide funds to support the maintenance and operation of four of the museum's properties: the Olson House in Cushing, the Wyeth Study Center, the Wyeth Center, and the Wyeth Research Center. The campaign...
The Martha Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
We drove through Rockland, where The Wyeth Center at the Farnsworth Art Museum is located. This is where three generations of Wyeths in Maine are on display - N.C. Andrew, and James. We were headed to Blue Hill, where I also like to antique when we spotted the new home of Swans Island ...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Former Met director Philippe de Montebello has given a talk in which he speaks about the issues of restitution affecting museums. Based on previous comments, it is unsurprising that he is against the idea of restitution. What is puzzling is that even after the return of the Euphronios Krater from his own museum he still [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Artist Robert Indiana isn't too keen on adding the word "vegetarian" to his famous EAT sign that went on public display for the first time in 44 years last month.
The PETA Files (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
If you dig 60s pop art as much as I do, you're really going think this is boss. Forty-five years after being on display for just one day during the New York World's Fair in 1964, artist Robert Indiana's iconic EAT sign is blinking back into action. Part of a larger exhibition of Indiana's work, the oversized objet d'art will be up and illuminated all month at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland,...
Sify (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Robert Indiana never saw his oversized EAT sign illuminated after it went up at the New York World's Fair in 1964. A day after being turned on, the sign with its hundreds of light bulbs was turned
MSNBC.com: Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Robert Indiana's "LOVE" icon is everywhere, but the artist himself lives as a recluse in a Maine fishing village.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Rockland, ME - On Saturday, June 20, the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, will open a major exhibition entitled Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope which will run in the museum’s Morehouse Wing and Crosman Gallery through October 25. The opening of Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope will be celebrated at a Live at Night at the Farnsworth party at the museum on Friday, June 19, with a members’...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Rockland, ME - On Monday, June, 15, the Farnsworth Art Museum will be installing two large sculptures by artist Robert Indiana in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope . The first of the two works of art, EAT, which stands twenty feet high and contains close to 400 flashing LED lights, will be installed on the roof of the museum, over the Museum Store,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 04/14/2009
The Farnsworth Art Museum is organizing a major exhibition featuring the work of renowned pop artist Robert Indiana.
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