The ever-popular collection of drawings, watercolors, and paintings by the Lebanese-born, visionary artist and writer Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) will be on view again at the Telfair Academy beginning on May 26. Although best known for authoring The Prophet, a collection of short, philosophical essays that became one of the top-selling books of the twentieth century, Kahlil [...]
This exhibition of Italian masterworks from the Renaissance through the Baroque period is drawn from the permanent collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, one of the world’s greatest art museums. The Uffizi Gallery dates to 1560 and began its storied history as the repository of the priceless collection of Florence’s famous Medici family. Offering [...]
For the 50th anniversary of the United States Studio Glass Movement, Telfair Museums will host its first exhibition on the subject of contemporary glass. Blown, Assembled and Cast: A Celebration of Contemporary Glass will feature approximately thirty works from the museum’s collection of studio glass, as well as works from collectors Betty Melaver and Jackie and [...]
For PULSE 2013, Telfair presents the first solo museum exhibition by Hye Yeon Nam, a digital media artist working in performance video, experimental interaction design and games, and robotic installations. Her work reflects the complexity of social relationships by making the familiar strange, and by interpreting everyday behaviors in performative ways. The exhibition includes the [...]
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design tells an American story of one of the most common furnishing items found in the home, the workplace, and any sort of public setting, both interior and exterior. Using 40 chairs which span more than two centuries of design and manufacture, The Art of Seating captures [...]
Robert Claiborne Morris began to re-examine his understanding of race in America after reading an early proof of Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Slavery by Another Name.” The revelation that slavery continued until World War II changed the way he saw his native South. Morris began an odyssey in search of the images, [...]
In celebration of the Uffizi exhibition, the Telfair will present rarely exhibited works from Mary Telfair’s collection which she acquired primarily in Italy during her travels abroad. Since our country’s earliest days, Americans seeking cultural enlightenment, education, and inspiration have turned to Europe. Like other Americans of means, the Telfairs visited European sites of cultural [...]
Dan Winters has spent more than two decades creating memorable photographs for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone. Best known for his iconic and distinctive celebrity portraits, Winters has photographed public figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to President Barack Obama, Hollywood celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to [...]
Telfair Museums will present Your Land/My Land ’12 to coincide with the 2012 American presidential election season. The exhibition will be staged simultaneously at art museums across the US. Your Land/My Land is a reimagined installation originally presented by Jonathan Horowitz during the 2008 presidential election. At each location (as in ’08), red and blue [...]
Telfair Museums is pleased to present selections from its growing collection of modern and contemporary art. Since its founding in 1886, the Telfair has collected the art of its time. This tradition was begun by Carl Brandt, the museum’s first director, who primarily collected nineteenth-century academic paintings that were in fashion at the time of [...]
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