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29358
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Dr. Richard S. Schneiderman has been appointed as Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Schneiderman comes to the museum from the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. A biography of Schneiderman is provided. Schneiderman was selected over other candidates for his strong and dynamic leadership capabilities, his combination of youth and experience, and his creativity and enthusiasm.
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10454
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North Carolina was the first state in the union to set aside public funds to found an art collection for its citizens. The funds were appropriated in 1947, and the museum opened in 1956. The article discusses what makes this particular museum such a unique one.
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28833
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The North Carolina Museum of Art opens a new park on November 6, 2016. The park will feature sculptures and two speech-bubble-shaped benches by the conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Thomas’s work examines race, identity, representation, and commerce, and seeks to broaden community engagement.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 42, Nov 2016,
p27-28, il, por
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29224
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Henry Moore’s Large Spindle Piece sculpture was recently installed outside the North Carolina Museum of Art. The piece was first restored by the museum’s staff before being placed atop a grassy knoll in the center of the entrance drive as the first work visitors to the museum will see. The history of the creation of the sculpture by Moore and the process of its acquisition and donation are also detailed.
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29389
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The process for how the North Carolina Museum of Art deaccessions works of art and uses the funds raised from deaccessioning to build their collection is explored. The Museum deaccessions, or gets rid of, works of art from its collection for a variety of reasons. The Museum may remove works that are of: inferior quality; outside the collecting scope at the present or foreseeable future; duplicates, works similar to others, or possessing insufficient educational value; works in such poor condition that they are not fit to display; and fakes. Many of the 1,000-1,200 works recently deaccessioned were accepted as gifts around 1956 when the Museum was first opening and accepted anything that was given to them regardless of quality or value.
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Robert Lee Humber successfully lobbied $1,000,000 from the North Carolina legislature in 1947. Humber had obtained a promise from the Kress Foundation in New York that they would match the legislature up to $1,000,000 in purchasing art. Humber lobbied legislatures into passing a bill that stipulated that if money was left over at the end of the year that money would be used for matching the Kress Foundation. The funds were matched and the North Carolina Museum of Art now exists because of Humber's efforts. Article is reprinted from the January 12, 1957 issue.
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Robert Lee Humber convinced the State of North Carolina, as well as the Kress Foundation in New York City, to each donate $1 million dollars to the N.C. Museum of Art for purchasing new art.
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4947
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John Coffey, chief curator of the North Carolina Museum of Art, heads a staff that includes Rebecca Martin Nagy, Dennis Weller, Mary Ellen Carr Soles, Huston Paschal, and David Steel. Working together over two decades, the staff has established the museum as one of the nation's best.
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29271
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The Museum has recently acquired the paintings Girl with Cat; Franzi by Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, German, 1880-1938 and The Martyrdom of St. Januarius by Mattia Preti, Italian, 1613-1699. The German Expressionist Kirchner’s painting is a major one by the artist and depicts an adolescent girl in the nude with a cat. The Italian Baroque painter Preti is considered a masterpiece and depicts Saint Januarius, a bishop of Benevenuto who was martyred around 305 during the persecution by the Roman emperor Diocletian.
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4948
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The North Carolina Museum of Art's return of a painting stolen by the Nazis in 1940 to its rightful owners is hailed as a model for others engaged in similar claims. The painting, \"Madonna and Child in a Landscape,\" painted by Lucas Cranach in the 16th-century, was in turn sold back to the museum by the family for $600,000. It is the first such claim to stolen art work to end without a long court fight.
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1566
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Louis Mignot, whose work entitled \"Landscape in Ecuador\" hangs in the North Carolina Museum of Art, was one of America's major landscape artists.
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27910
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is given the nickname “The Nick.” The connection between an art museum’s name and its city are explored. The new North Carolina Museum of Art has recently opened and the author believes the museum needs a good nickname to connect the institution to Raleigh and its citizens.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 16, April 2010,
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840
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The North Carolina Museum of Art recently transferred 96 drawings by Nowicki, an architect who designed Dorton Arena, to the Visual Arts Department at North Carolina State University.
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26971
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Richard Schneiderman is the new director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, and will debut an extraordinary exhibit of Japanese kimonos. Schneiderman has been described as a populist, elitist, and reserved politician. Critics claim that the kimono exhibit is not serious art, but others believe the exhibit will attract a diverse audience and demonstrate cross-cultural acceptance.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 6 Issue 5, Mar 10-23 1988,
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2370
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The North Carolina Museum of Art has begun work on its new outdoor Museum Park Theater. When completed in 1996, the theater will handle such functions as musical and dramatic productions, films, and lectures.
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