Botero sculpture @ the MFA on Fox 13

by Thaddeus on December 22, 2009

It was great to get some news coverage for the installation of three large, Botero sculptures. These three are early arrivals from the upcoming exhibition The Baroque World of Fernando Botero opening on January 9th.

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Installing I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill

by Thaddeus on September 29, 2009

Curatorial stall installing RUSH by Lesley Dill

Curatorial staff installing RUSH by Lesley Dill

We are chugging along with the installation of the new exhibition, I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill. We are currently focusing on the three largest installation pieces with the help of John Thornbury, a preparator from The Hunter Museum.

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There is always something new happening

September 2, 2009

In between our special exhibitions we are always working on something, often making changes in our permanent collection galleries. Our smaller O’Keeffe painting White Abstraction has traveled up to the Whitney Museum and will be included in an exhibition, and we reinstalled Cliff Dwellers’ Country by John Sloan in it’s place. We also installed a [...]

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Farewell Warhol Portfolios

August 27, 2009

The Warhol crates were picked up today and we are now working on patching the gallery walls. We will start painting tomorrow, covering the grey on the lower half of the walls and finally changing from an eggshell finish to a flat finish. This will make it much easier to hide all the slight imperfections [...]

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Gallery Talk – Robin O’Dell

August 19, 2009

Yesterday Robin O’Dell gave a wonderful gallery talk on Latin American Art: Glimpses of the 60s and 70s which opened August 1st. I shot some video of the gallery talk and plan on posting it or at least the audio to our website later this week. I tried something different and used our small dv [...]

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Welcome to Museum Workers In Paradise!

June 16, 2009

Welcome to Museum Workers in Paradise, the brand-spanking new staff blog for the Museum.
This blog will be a way for our staff to talk about what is happening behind the scene and also reflect on projects and receive feedback from our visitors/web visitors. Please check back here regularly and feel free to comment!

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