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Gibbes Museum of Art Announces Inaugural Week-long Visual Arts Festival 2022
The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston’s premier art museum, has announced a new annual festival of visual art, Art Charleston, which will take place May 9 – 13, 2022. Four main events, the Amy P. Coy Forum, Art of Design, Soirée and Gibbes on the Street, will anchor the festival celebrating creative freedom. Additionally, participants […]
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The Gibbes Museum of Art to Exhibit Smithsonian Collection of Works by William H. Johnson
The Gibbes Museum of Art will present its major spring exhibition, Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice, from Jan. 21 until Aug. 7. This exhibition brings together 28 paintings by the South Carolina born artist, which have not been seen together for almost 75 years. Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the […]
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Exhibitions • Press Releases
The Gibbes Museum of Art Announces 2022 Special Exhibitions
Today, the Gibbes Museum of Art announced its schedule of special exhibitions coming to the museum in 2022. From historical paintings to Greek geometric art, this lineup of exhibitions features various mediums exploring a vast array of topics, encouraging visitors to engage and learn about new art forms and genres. “We are excited to announce […]
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Light Effects: The French Impressionists
The Gibbes Museum of Art, one of the oldest arts organizations in the country, will exhibit a collection of artwork by French masters of the Impressionism movement. Light Effects: The French Impressionists will be on display at the Gibbes from Sept. 3, 2021 – Feb. 20, 2022, showcasing principal artists of the movement such as Edgar Degas, Paul […]
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The Gibbes Museum of Art to Kick-Off National Tour of Rarely Seen Abstract Works by Romare Bearden
The Gibbes Museum of Art will present Romare Bearden: Abstraction, a major traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) and the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, SUNY. On view at the Gibbes from October 15, 2021 – January 9, 2022, the exhibition presents important yet rarely seen works from American artist […]
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Awards • Press Releases
Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman Awarded Gibbes Philanthropy Award at Year End Luncheon 2021
The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston’s premier art museum, marked the end of an unprecedented year by awarding the James Shoolbred Gibbes Philanthropy Award to nationally recognized artist Jonathan Green and his partner Richard Weedman. The award was announced at the Gibbes’ annual Fellows Luncheon, held on May 28, the fifth anniversary of the reopening […]
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Awards • Press Releases
Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman Awarded Gibbes Philanthropy Award
The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston’s premier art museum, marked the end of an unprecedented year by awarding the James Shoolbred Gibbes Philanthropy Award to nationally recognized artist Jonathan Green and his partner Richard Weedman. The award was announced at the Gibbes’ annual Fellows Luncheon, held on May 28, the fifth anniversary of the reopening […]
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The Gibbes Preserves Legacy of Japanese Art in Charleston with New Publication
The Gibbes Museum of Art has published a fully illustrated catalog featuring a selection of the museum’s extensive collection of Japanese woodblock prints that also interprets how Charleston played a key role in the Golden Age of Japanese print collecting. The publication, “Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection,” explains how Japonisme, or the […]
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Exhibitions • Press Releases
The Gibbes Museum Celebrates and Honors Japanese Art with Two Special Exhibitions
The Gibbes Museum of Art, home to one of the most significant collections of Japanese woodblock prints in the Southeast, will present two new exhibitions that reveal the complexity and importance of Japanese art and how its history collides with Charleston. The exhibitions, Lasting Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Read-Simms Collection and Japonisme in Charleston: Alice […]
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Permanent Collection • Press Releases
The Gibbes Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions by African American Artists
The Gibbes Museum of Art, home to the foremost collection of American art that incorporates the story of Charleston, is proud to announce the acquisition of three new artworks by African American artists to the permanent collection. The works are “Holy City” and “Eden” by Charleston-based artist Fletcher Williams III, and “Sanctuary” by the winner […]
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