Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority No. 236-3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as appropriate, Delegation of Authority No. 257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby determine that the objects to be included in the exhibition ``Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements w...
And you think you are having a hard time redecorating? Imagine having nearly 7,000 examples of American and European decorative arts from the past 2 1/2 centuries in a storage room for 10 years. Now, imagine cleaning out the rooms that housed all that and taking about 500 of those objects and putting them back in, but in as tasteful an arrangement as possible. That's just what has happened at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The four Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries, comprising nearly 8,500 square feet of storage space, have been renovated. Completely updated for the 21st century, the space has natural illumination throughout from a half-dozen floor to ceiling windows, while a solid wall that had separated the two larger galleries has been replaced with a row of display cases, creating a sense o...
Villa Finale Will Open Doors to General Public for the First Time SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced today the opening of Villa Finale, the newest of 29 National Trust Historic Sites. Once home to one of Texas' pioneering preservationists, Walter Nold Mathis, Villa Finale is the first and only National Trust Historic Site in Texas. The National Trust has spent the last five years meticulously preparing the Italianate mansion and renowned decorative arts collection, which will open to the general public for the first time on October 2, 2010.
Excitement is building in the local arts community for the reopening next fall of Carnegie Museum of Art's Ailsa Mellon Bruce galleries, which house the museum's decorative arts collection of more than 7,000 treasured pieces. Jason T. Busch, the museum's curator of decorative arts, promises to give a sneak preview of his plans for the much-anticipated reinstallation at "Past Meets Present: Innovative Installations of Decorative Arts," at the 31st annual Decorative Arts Symposium presented by the Women's Committee of the Carnegie Museum of Art on Oct. 23.
SAN MARINO - Harold B. "Hal" Nelson has been named the first curator of American decorative arts at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. A specialist in decorative art and contemporary craft for more than 30 years, Nelson has written numerous publications and organized a variety of exhibitions. As guest curator at The Huntington beginning in January 2008, he contributed to the comprehensive reinstallation of the newly expanded Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, which opened in May, 2008.
FAIRVIEW, Sanpete County -- Light, airy, delicate, beautiful -- lace is one of those things that serves little purpose other than aesthetics. But the fact that it is one of the oldest of the decorative arts says something for the human need for beauty. Bobbin lace has been dated positively to the 1200s," says lace- maker and teacher Elizabeth Peterson. "It may be older than that.
A Taste for China," a treasure chest filled with more than 100 objects drawn from hidden storerooms and private collections, opens Saturday at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. The show's opening comes while the market for Chinese decorative arts is white-hot and coincides with the legendary "Asia Week" of auctions and shows in New York, where billionaire collectors from China will compete to buy back bits of their heritage. The depth of Memphis' collections of Chinese art, both public and private, takes on new meaning in light of the desirability of these artifacts in the international arena.
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