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Museum Announces Committee to Search for a Successor to Late Director Anne d'Harnoncourt
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Gerry Lenfest, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Philadelphia Museum of Art, announced today the formation of the search committee charged with selecting a successor to Anne d’Harnoncourt, the late George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, who died June 1, 2008. The committee is headed by co-chairs Martha H. Morris and Keith L. Sachs, both Trustees of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who were named earlier, and also includes Barbara B. Aronson, Julian A. Brodsky, John G. Drosdick, David W. Haas, Victoria McNeil Le Vine, and Mary Patterson McPherson. Each member is a Trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A search firm to assist in the process will be named at a later date.



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September 11, 2008

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Los Angeles Police Department Offers a $200,000 Reward for the Recovery of Stolen Art

Walker Art Center Appoints Baltimore Museum of Art Curator Darsie Alexander as its Chief Curator

Splendid Titian Returns to Joslyn Art Museum Transformed Following Conservation

MoMA Presents a Site-Specific Installation of Newly Acquired Works by Artist Lucy McKenzie

Exhibition From the Louvre Collection Opens at MIA in 2009

New Collection on View at Irish Museum of Modern Art

Light-Pictures: From Alfred Stieglitz to Andreas Gursky at Bank Austria Kunstforum

Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewer Leads Christie's Landmark Islamic and Indian Worlds Sale

Previously Unseen Animations and Sculptures by David Shrigley on View at Baltic Centre

Annual Designer in Residence Exhibition Opens at Design Museum

Bold Strokes and Finesse: The Stage Designs of John Ezell at Des Lee Gallery

Week-long Runs of Films by Todd McCarthy, Bela Tarr, and Carlos Reygadas to be Screened at MoMA in September

Constantin Luser. Clouds of Action at Belvedere

Sotheby's Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department Welcomes Dr. Caroline Schulten and Christina Prescott-Walker

Museum of Arts and Design Announces Gift of Major Jewelry Collection

Two Exhibits at de Saisset Museum Address Issues in Contemporary Society

Museum of American Finance Hosts "Banking on Art" Panel Discussion

Museum of Modern Art Features Short Documentary by Anthony Rossello

September 10, 2008

Major Celebration Heralding Francis Bacon's Centenary Opens at Tate Gallery in London

National September 11 Memorial & Museum Provides New Design Details

Jeff Koons Takes His Contemporary Culture to Versailles

Metropolitan Museum Announces Successor to Philippe de Montebello

New Museum Acquires Adjacent Building on the Bowery

MoMA Presents an Installation of Its Contemporary Galleries With Works From the Collection

Charles Avery The Islanders: An Introduction at Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art

World's Leading Annual International Show for Tribal Art Opens in Paris

Kate Gilmore Constructs a New Challenge in Video for Project Space

Sotheby's Returns to Chatsworth with a Landmark Selling Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture

Leading Contemporary Artists Donate Work to Raise Funds for Treatment of Childhood Cancer

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Opens Exhibition by Celebrated Artist and Filmmaker Steve McQueen

20/21 British Art Fair Opens at the Royal College of Art

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Dreaming of an Island on Viet at Spelman College

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

Bonhams Next South African Sale Attracts Pictures That Have Not Been On The Market For Decades

Istanbul is Preparing for Its First International Property & Architecture Event

The Bank of New York Mellon Supports The Museum of Modern Art

Art the Vote Unveils 70+ Billboards Across Battleground State of Missouri

McAslan, AHMM and BDP Top Shortlist for BD's Architect of the Year Awards

September 9, 2008

Damien Hirst Presents His Works of Art In Historic Sale to be Held at Sotheby's in London

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui Opens at The Metropolitan

Lucian Freud's Rarely-seen Portrait of Francis Bacon to be Offered at Christie's

Jim Dine will Debut New Sculpture and Poetry Inspired by Objects in the Getty Museum

Artist Frank Stella to Appear at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Sotheby's Announces Old Master Paintings Sale in Amsterdam

Institute of Contemporary Art Presents New Work by Douglas Blau

A New Art Fair, The Open Art Fair at Jaarbeurs Utrecht Exhibition Centre

What Are You Like? Self Revealing Portraits by Forty-five People in The Public Eye

Exclusive Warhol Exhibition Opened at the New Johnson Center for the Arts

Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art at Boston University Art Gallery

Bellevue Arts Museum Announces Transition Plan for Expanded Leadership

Contractors Appointed to Transform Museum

People, Politics and Perversion: The Photographs of Helene Gaillet at Hillwood Art Museum

Hirshhorn Announces Upcoming Exhibitions in the Museum's Black Box Space for New Media

NASA Debuts 50th Anniversary Art Book

Critical Eye Design Gallery Showcases Vivid New Works by American Realism Master Bill Rhea in Sausalito This November

Thomas P. Campbell Named Next Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

September 8, 2008

After 4 Years of Construction Architect Gehry Seeks to Inspire with Princeton's Lewis Library

UMPI to Host Debut Exhibition in Maine of Warhol Photographs

Sir Paul Nurse, Celebrated With A New Commission at National Portrait Gallery

Christie's First Open Sale Offers a Selection of Contemporary Masters and Emerging Artists

Odili Donald Odita's Third Space at Institute Of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia

Francis Alys: Fabiola on View at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Montreal-Trudeau Exhibits a Mobile Sculpture by Artist Bernard Seguin-Poirier

Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Offers Saturday Short Courses in Art

Special Panel Discussion on Dali and New York to be Held at Museum of Modern Art

The Herbert will Display Works by Artists From Four Societies

Glenbow Museum and TORODE Install Upside Down Church in Calgary

Leading Proponent of Por Art Movement in France Alain Jacquet, 69, Dies of Cancer

Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff at Yale

Evolution of a Sacred Space: Días de los Muertos 2008

Ilya Bolotowsky and Esphyr Slobodkina: Advocates of Abstract Art at Hillwood Art Museum

Serious Drinking: Vases of the Greek Symposium on View at Kemper Art Museum

Dr. Sabine Haag to Become New General Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Announces Recipients of Archives of American Art Medal

Getty Gives Viewers the Opportunity to Learn About Bernini en Italiano

September 7, 2008

The Magic of Things: Still Life Painting 1500-1800 Opens at Kunstmuseum Basel

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Opens The Light Project

Christie's Holds First Ever Contemporary Design Sale in New York on Monday

Lyman Allyn Art Museum Opens New Exhibition Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic

The Art Fund Helps Buy Key Works in Imperial War Museum's New Exhibition

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery Opens

Senior Curator of Photographs at the V&A to Give Talk at the Herbert

Devils Tower Opens New Interpretive Site and World Peace Sculpture

R. Crumb's Underground at Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia

Abstract Painter Dale Chisman Died Last Week at Age 65

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New Trustee Appointed to Wexner Center Foundation Board

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Workers Provide Intimate Portrait of 200 Years at the White House in at State Historical Society of Iowa

A Series of Three Major Photographs Auctions Offered at Christie's

A Surprising Portrait of Fritz Scholder, the Nation's Most Celebrated Native American Artist Opens in New York

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The Cape Ann Museum Extends Greenheads Exhibition

An Exhibition of Collections Brought Together by Alan Kane at the London Underground

Call for 2009 Hunting Art Prize Entries

September 6, 2008

Jacob Philipp Hackert. Europe's Landscape Painter of Goethe Era at Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Triumph of Desire - Danish and International Surrealism Opens

Five Men Accused of Demanding Money For Da Vinci Work Appear in Court

Picasso on Paper: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (1899-1967) Opens

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Presents An-My Le: Small Wars

Politically Charged Exhibition Opens at Loyola University Museum of Art

Birds in Art - Just the Cure for Avian Envy - At Woodson Art Museum

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Photography IV: Marie-Therese & Andre Jammes Collection for Sale at Sotheby's

Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators, 1850-1950 Opens

Art and China's Revolution Opens at Asia Society

Moving Perspectives: Video Art from Asia Opens at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

The Museum of Modern Art Acquires Important Work by Georges Braque

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