If you were to make a visit to the Museum of Biblical Art, what would you expect? I didn’t have a definite idea, more like half-formed visions of rosaries, painted wooden crosses, rosy Madonnas. The ...
New York’s Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) will close its doors this summer, after operating for a decade. The institution’s current Donatello exhibition (see Discover Renaissance Master Donatello at ...
The Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan will close in June, having failed to secure a new space after the sale this year of its current home, the American Bible Society building near Columbus Circle.
New York’s Museum of Biblical Art is about to close down. What a shame: religious art may not attract wealthy donors, but the Bible has always been – and remains – a powerful trigger for artistic ...
That is a fresh approach for a museum committed to art that, even if it is modern or contemporary, is rooted in a religious and narrative tradition. “It shows a new direction,” said Scanlan, noting ...
With pieces by Donatello, Nanni di Banco, Luca della Robbia, and Filippo Brunelleschi, the exhibition showcases “work that normally never leaves Italy, and, indeed in some cases, has never left ...
One by one, the Master’s figures will take their leave. Saint John the Evangelist. Abraham and Isaac; two little “profetini,” or child prophets; a gaunt figure known as the Zuccone, whose quizzically ...
The Museum of Biblical Art's (MOBIA) trustees announced today that when its current exhibition of Donatello sculptures closes in June, the museum will shut down. ‘Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: ...