BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART INSTALLS EXHIBITION OF NEW WORKS BY AMERICAN ARTIST SHARON LOUDEN Multifaceted exhibition features illuminated installation, painting, video animation July 28, 2008, Birmingham, Ala — The Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) announces an exhibition of newly commissioned work by New York-based artist Sharon Louden from September 28, 2008 to January 4, 2009. The works in Sharon Louden: Taking Turns will visually connect the Museum's galleries and Sculpture Garden through different media: paintings, a projected video animation, and a site-specific installation of illuminated cable in the trees. |
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Group of Leonardo Drawings
Shown for First Time in U.S. Birmingham, AL, February 15, 2008 (updated May 21, 2008) — The Birmingham Museum of Art announced today that one of the most significant groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci will be loaned to a U.S. museum for the first time by the Biblioteca Reale (Royal Library) in Turin, Italy. Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, will open September 28 and run through November 9, 2008 in Birmingham. The works encompass one of Leonardo’s most celebrated notebooks, the Codex on the Flight of Birds, and 11 important drawings, including one described by Bernard Berenson as the “most beautiful drawing in the world.” The drawings have never before traveled as a group nor in their entirety been made available outside of Italy. |
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Birmingham Museum of Art Facts The Collection: The Birmingham Museum of Art, one of the finest regional museums in the United States, houses a diverse collection of more than 17,000 paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and decorative arts dating from ancient to modern times. The collection presents a rich panorama of cultures, featuring the Museum’s extensive holdings of Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian and Native American art. General Information Founding Date: 1951 |
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