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The Norman Rockwell Museum announces today that it is the recipient of more than $1 million in competitive funding to preserve its rare and unique Norman Rockwell archival collection.
The collection contains more than 100,000 items from American illustrator Norman Rockwell's personal and public papers, art, and archives, and is one of the most comprehensive artist archives in the nation.
The Museum has received initial funding from several government and private foundation sources to initiate Phase II of what is projected to be a ten-year-project.
"ProjectNORMAN, as we fondly call this endeavor, has been recognized as a national model in archival and collections management," noted Laurie Norton Moffatt, Museum director.
"In addition to all the fascinating information it reveals about Norman Rockwell, the collection is a window into 20th-century-Ameri can visual culture, a trove of images, artifacts, and ideas, that provides for in-depth research into American popular culture and history."
The Museum's archival preservation project, named ProjectNORMAN, is a comprehensive cataloguing, computerization, digitization and publishing program.
In addition to preserving what is considered to be one of the nation's most significant art and archive collections, the Museum intends to make Rockwell's personal and public
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Colorado State University's Lory Student Center celebrates the 20th anniversary of its dedication of the Curfman Gallery with a new exhibition and series of public events beginning Jan. 21.
Opened in 1968 as the Student Center Gallery, the university's premier exhibition space was renamed the Curfman Gallery in 1985 to honor Jack Curfman, a legendary exhibition designer and Colorado State professor emeritus responsible for the design of every exhibit shown in the gallery since its opening.
The celebration begins at 1 p.m. Jan. 21 in the Lory Student Center Theater with a rededication of the gallery.
The event will include a video with highlights of Curfman's past two decades and a tribute to the man behind the signature look of the exhibitions.
Patrons will then be invited to a special preview of the exhibit, "Gifts of My Past: The Eclectic Collection of Jack Curfman."
The exhibit officially opens with a reception from 4-6 p.m. on Jan. 23.
The one-of-a-kind exhibition, which has been hand-selected by Curfman, is intended as a public thank you to all those who have contributed to his collection over the years.
The event also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Lory Student Center's dedication of its gallery space in his honor.
The exhibit will run through March 10.
Designing exhibitions around the
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In the 1940's the American photographer Robert Frank produced his now iconic photographs of the city of London at work.
Some fifty years later photographer Anthony Jones comes to the subject with this series of tightly composed black and white studies which convey a sense of mystery and tension.
Though Anthony's work has been published and exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic, this is the first time it has been exhibited in the square mile and is something of a homecoming.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment plans to move its cinema construction design center from London to Shanghai as part of a continuing expansion into the Chinese market, a Chinese state media report said Friday.
The center will handle all cinema design work for theaters in China, Italy, Japan, the United States, and any other countries into which the company expands in future, the Xinhua News Agency said.
It cited Millard Ochs, president of Warner Bros. International Cinemas as saying the move would "further close cooperation" between Warner Bros. and its Chinese partners.
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It's easy to dismiss the Boy's Own adventure world of South Australia's David Bromley as nostalgic, decorative, feel-good art that panders to the eager tastes of the commercial market.
Peer inside the new beachfront mansions springing up along any of Adelaide's coastal esplanades - or at the walls of everything from the city's executive offices to plush hotels and even elite nightclubs - and you are likely to see one of his sun-drenched depictions of childhood moments, sensual gold-leaf nudes or wallpaper-like fields of metallic butterflies and boats.
But behind Bromley's phenomenal international success and his outwardly joyous depictions lies a darker side.
These seemingly innocent works are the cathartic outpourings of a life both marred and fuelled by addictions, masking the artist's own psychological traumas while crying out for a better world.
His latest series of Young Artist paintings depicts boys with paintbrushes in hand, creating replicas of everything from famous nudes to sailing ships.
Bromley, 45, insists he was never the boy in those paintings. "I wish I was - to be that focused, to be that involved.
There's a lot of jealousy going on with these guys," he says.
You would never know it from the confidence in Bromley's own brush marks, as he frantically mixes a specific golden hue and boldly
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