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February 07, 2012: Noontime Knowledge Next Tuesday!
Join us at noon on Tuesday, February 7, for lunch (bring your own or order ahead from our Atrium Café) and a fascinating presentation.
Today's talk: "A New Modern & Contemporary Gallery" - Scott Schweigert, Curator of Art & Civilization
Free with Museum admission (Members free).
Special lunch and lecture cost: $5/Members; $10 Non-Members
Today's talk: "A New Modern & Contemporary Gallery" - Scott Schweigert, Curator of Art & Civilization
Free with Museum admission (Members free).
Special lunch and lecture cost: $5/Members; $10 Non-Members
January 19, 2012: Arboretum Assistants Need Assistance
The holidays are over and the winter doldrums are upon us. Fortunately spring with its promise of warmth, color, and newness of life is only several weeks away. With that in mind, the Reading Public Museum Arboretum Committee is preparing to greet our returning Arboretum Assistants and welcome new participants to the Museum Arboretum program.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
January 19, 2012: Reading's Favorite Mummy in the News
Move over, Kate! Our famous mummy, Nefrina, made the news this week when her burial mask was delivered to The Museum to be on temporary display.
Check her out on WFMZ Channel 69 Berks Edition: http://www.wfmz.com/news/Mummy-delivered-to-Reading-museum/-/121458/8309934/-/73a4oy/-/index.html and the Reading Eagle: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=360015, and BCTV.org: http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/arts/reading-public-museum-s-mummy-nefrina-is-reunited-with-her/article_8cd60cf0-3e29-11e1-959a-0019bb2963f4.html
Here's a link to last week's article, also in the Eagle: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=358921
Thanks to the folks in local media for covering this historic event!
Check her out on WFMZ Channel 69 Berks Edition: http://www.wfmz.com/news/Mummy-delivered-to-Reading-museum/-/121458/8309934/-/73a4oy/-/index.html and the Reading Eagle: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=360015, and BCTV.org: http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/arts/reading-public-museum-s-mummy-nefrina-is-reunited-with-her/article_8cd60cf0-3e29-11e1-959a-0019bb2963f4.html
Here's a link to last week's article, also in the Eagle: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=358921
Thanks to the folks in local media for covering this historic event!
February 02, 2012: New Exhibition Opens in Cove Gallery
Beginning February 24, a new show will open in our ground floor Cove Gallery. Michael Craig-Martin: Drawings, includes more than 30 drawings of subjects from ordinary life, which Craig-Martin portrays using a mechanical line.
Michael Craig-Martin: Drawings was selected from a recent exhibition organized by Alan Cristea Gallery, London. His work is in collections of the MoMA in New York City and the Tate Gallery in London. He was recently commissioned to create a poster for the 2012 London Olympics. His work is represented by Alan Cristea Gallery, London, and Gagosian Gallery, New York, and his sculptures are exhibited at the NewArtCentre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Mr. Craig-Martin is best known for using his "universal language." He uses simple things to describe complex ideas about form and purpose. Like Claes Oldenburg, everyday objects sustain iconic meaning as Mr. Craig-Martin manipulates material and scale to maximum impact.
Mr. Craig Martin was born in Dublin in 1941, but grew up in Northeast Washington, D.C. He studied fine art at Yale University where he enrolled in the course designed by Josef Albers, the noted Bauhaus color theorist. A key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists, he was a professor at Goldsmith's College, where he trained many of the YBA (Young British Artists), such as Damien Hirst and Gary Hume.
This exhibition was recently presented at The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, which is the professional showcase for art at George Washington University. Luther W. Brady, the gallery's namesake and benefactor, is a world-renowned oncologist based in Philadelphia, who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at GW and serves on the Reading Public Museum's Foundation Board.
Michael Craig-Martin: Drawings was selected from a recent exhibition organized by Alan Cristea Gallery, London. His work is in collections of the MoMA in New York City and the Tate Gallery in London. He was recently commissioned to create a poster for the 2012 London Olympics. His work is represented by Alan Cristea Gallery, London, and Gagosian Gallery, New York, and his sculptures are exhibited at the NewArtCentre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Mr. Craig-Martin is best known for using his "universal language." He uses simple things to describe complex ideas about form and purpose. Like Claes Oldenburg, everyday objects sustain iconic meaning as Mr. Craig-Martin manipulates material and scale to maximum impact.
Mr. Craig Martin was born in Dublin in 1941, but grew up in Northeast Washington, D.C. He studied fine art at Yale University where he enrolled in the course designed by Josef Albers, the noted Bauhaus color theorist. A key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists, he was a professor at Goldsmith's College, where he trained many of the YBA (Young British Artists), such as Damien Hirst and Gary Hume.
This exhibition was recently presented at The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, which is the professional showcase for art at George Washington University. Luther W. Brady, the gallery's namesake and benefactor, is a world-renowned oncologist based in Philadelphia, who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at GW and serves on the Reading Public Museum's Foundation Board.
