Art Exhibition
Madison Art Collection loans works to Ben Shahn exhibition in Spain
JMU is a major contributor to an exhibition on the life and works of Ben Shahn at the Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, home to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica and part of the “Golden Triangle of Art,” along with the renowned Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums.
“Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity / De la no conformidad” opened Oct. 3 and has received rave reviews. The exhibition runs through Feb. 26, 2024, and features important works by Ben Shahn owned by the Madison Art Collection that were shown in a 2017 exhibition at the Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art.
This is the first time that the MAC has loaned works to a major museum overseas. The exhibition consists of more than 200 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, hand-scripted books and commercial designs from 50 museums, archives and private collections in the U.S. and Spain, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. JMU is the second-largest institutional lender of works to the show behind the Smithsonian.
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Fundraiser for Animals 26th March – 6th April 2025 Helping Paws presents DOWN TO THE BONE 2, a collective art exhibition to raise funds for animals in the UK and overseas. 26 March – 6th April. Wed – Sat 10am – 4pm: Sun 1pm – 4pm (Closed Mon & Tues). The Grange Gallery, The Green Rottingdean, BN2 7HA.
54 artists from around the country have contributed paintings and sculptures. Artists include Dr Marc Abrahams OBE, or ‘Marc the Vet’, author, broadcaster, TV personality and animal welfare campaigner based at The Mewes Vets in Rottingdean, Romany Mark Bruce, painter and creator of the Brighton AIDS Memorial, and Sarah Sellers a Rottingdean resident who is the daughter of the late Peter Sellers.
The Art Fringe is proudly presenting “Through the Eyes of Women”, its biennial exhibition marking International Women’s Day (IWD). Through art, the exhibition aims to amplify and celebrate the voices of creative women. Female artists practising in a variety of mediums and approaches will be displaying their work in response to this year’s brief: “What does faith mean to you as a woman?”.
A Scottish folk singer’s mining heritage struck a chord with a University of Dundee student who has created artwork for a new exhibition.
Culann Mackay, a third-year Illustration student at the University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), has created a new print based on a recorded conversation from Fife musician Barbara Dymock.
