Zoomable X-rays Add New Wonk-Appeal to Kimbell’s Collection: New iPad App Features Conservation Info
The only thing more interesting to the general public about high-end art than its’ outrageous auction price is the incredible, finicky details of its conservation. The Kimbell has created an iPad app featuring supplementary information of the conservation of 32 works in their collection, in conjunction with its 40th anniversary exhibition, The Kimbell at 40: [...]
Greatest Work by Greatest Painter Who Has Ever Lived Acquired by Kimbell: Fort Worth New Navel of 18th Century Art World
The Kimbell in Fort Worth has a knack for making exciting news out of old paintings: they have announced an new acquisition, bigger than the Michelangelo monsters, more sacred than the Titian’s Bella in a Blue Dress: Nicholas Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter). Works like this carry the approval [...]
Adam Silverman’s “Reverse Archaeology” for the Kimbell Art Museum
After studying and practicing architecture in the 80s and 90s, working in the clothing industry and studying business management, Adam Silverman couldn’t ignore his deep leanings toward ceramics anymore, a hobby he’d practiced since high school. By 2002, it was time to go all in. Silverman threw off all of his other hats to become [...]
Wednesday is Art Museum Day all around the world, and in Texas, too!
100+ art museums will take part in this year’s Art Museum Day on May 18, and some of them are in Texas: The Amon Carter , El Paso Museum of Art, Kimbell, McNay, Meadows, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Nasher Sculpture Center, San Antonio Museum of Art, and The Menil Collection will all have [...]