MUSEUM NEWS
December 20th, 2009
15th Anniversary
Fifteen exciting years! When the Dahesh Museum of Art opened in 1995, its goal was to create a unique institution, the first American museum dedicated to one of the most neglected areas of art in the Western tradition, 19th-century European Academic art. Continues...
December 11th, 2009
Becoming an Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France
This spring, the Dahesh Museum of Art will present Becoming An Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France at Syracuse University's Palitz Gallery, Lubin House in New York City, 11 East 61st Street off Fifth Avenue. This will be the second exhibition designed specifically for the Palitz Gallery as part of the partnership between Syracuse University and the Dahesh Museum of Art, and the third exhibition since the collaboration was initiated over a year ago. Continues...
September 22nd, 2009
In Transition: Dr. Flora Kaplan
Flora Edouwaye Kaplan, Interim Director, left the Dahesh Museum of Art on May 1st, 2009, having led a three-year period of transition beginning 2006, and culminating with a long-term master plan crafted with the Board of Trustees, which included re-hiring Dr. David Farmer to serve as Director of Exhibitions, a role he assumed this summer. Continues...
Alia Nour Named Assistant Curator
The Museum is delighted to welcome Alia Nour to the curatorial staff. Ms. Nour first worked with Dr. David Farmer on Dahesh Museum of Art's last exhibition, In Pursuit of the Exotic. This spring she will organize our second exhibition at Syracuse University's Lubin House. Continues...
July 22nd, 2009
Dr. J. David Farmer named Director of Exhibitions
As of July 1, 2009, Dr. J. David Farmer re-joined the Dahesh Museum of Art to fill the position of Director of Exhibitions.
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March 20th, 2009
Dahesh Supports Emerging Scholars
The Dahesh Museum of Art continues to promote academic scholarship in the field of 19th-century art.
This year, it is underwriting the sixth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art,
a project initiated at Museum and continued by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA).
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January 29th, 2009
In Pursuit of the Exotic: Artists Abroad in 19th-Century Egypt and the Holy Land Opening at The Palitz Gallery, Lubin House, March 24 - April 30, 2009
Visual artists seem to have a penchant for travel. Whether to seek out fresh subject matter or experiences, many leave their studios and
countries behind to explore new worlds. In Pursuit of the Exotic: Artists Abroad in 19th-Century Egypt and the Holy Land, focuses on
select group of 19th- century European artists, written into art history as "Orientalists," who depicted exotic lands that had existed
on the edge of European consciousness until their rediscovery in the 18th century. It is organized by the Dahesh Museum of Art and
presented at Syracuse University's Palitz Gallery at Lubin House, 11 East 61st Street, off Fifth Avenue.
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December 19th, 2008
Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University Form Partnership to Produce Exhibitions in New York City and Syracuse
New York, New York - The Dahesh Museum of Art and Syracuse University Art Galleries today announced the formation of a partnership, which will include the Museum's organizing several exhibitions annually from its own collection of 19th-century art in the academic tradition, complemented by works in the University's rich collection, for presentation at the SU Art Galleries in Syracuse, as well as The Palitz Gallery/ Lubin House, located on 11 East 61st Street, off Fifth Avenue. The Palitz Gallery has recently attracted artworld attention with the exhibition Michelangelo: the Man and the Myth on view through January 4th 2009.
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