The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced today that Julián Zugazagoitia has been named the new Director/CEO of the Nelson-Atkins, the fifth director in the Museum’s 75-year history. Zugazagoitia, 46, an international scholar, museum director and consultant who has served for the past seven years as the Director/CEO of El Museo del Barrio in New York, was the unanimous choice of search committee members and will begin his position Sept. 1, 2010.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced a cumulative gift of 400 works of art from 75 patrons, given in commemoration of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s 75th Anniversary. The hundreds of masterworks span cultures, chronologies and media and include one of the most important private collections of Impressionist art in the United States. These extraordinary gifts—which also honor Director/CEO Marc F. Wilson’s 28-year tenure—include masterworks by Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Van Gogh and Cezanne.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art today announced a promised gift of seven extraordinary works of African art from the private collection of longtime Museum patrons Adele and Donald Hall, in honor of the Museum’s 75th Anniversary. The gifts, each a superb example of African art, will greatly elevate and broaden the Museum’s range of holdings in this area. Among the gifts are an intricately carved ivory Salt Cellar from the late 15th to early 16th century and an outstanding example of a wooden carving by the Luba artist known as …

Venice. 3 Visions in Glass
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
6 march – 15 august 2010

Three important contemporary artists who live in Venice and work on the island of Murano will be featured in the first exhibition of contemporary glass at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art when Venice. 3 Visions in Glass opens March 6. The exhibition closes Aug. 15. The Nelson-Atkins will be the first of three museum venues for the exhibition. The other venues are The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Fl., and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced an extraordinary gift from longtime Museum patrons Estelle and Morton Sosland, which will bring one of the nation’s finest private collections of American Indian art to the Nelson-Atkins. The gift of Northwest Coast masterworks strengthens the museum’s comprehensive holdings of American Indian art. The 34 works will be on display beginning in November when the Museum unveils its new suite of American Indian galleries, honoring and giving new emphasis to the artistic achievement of Native peoples from across America.

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