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What is strange about the Dahesh Museum?
There was a spiritual director, an oracle, in these parts who daily filled a famous column in one of the local newspapers. Once, in days of family piety, it bore the title Aunt Lydia's Post Bag; now it was The Wisdom of the Guru Brahmin, adorned with the photograph of a bearded and almost naked sage. To this exotic source resorted all who were in doubt or distress.
--Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Imagine yourself in a different place and time: California, let's say, late 1940s. Like many of your compatriots, you consider yourself a spiritual sort of fellow. People might call you a "new ager." Your chain of General Motors dealerships is thriving; you are a ...
- WHERE New York Announces Sponsorship of the Dahesh Museum of Art Re-Opening.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 5, 2003 700+ words
NEW YORK, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- "WHERE New York magazine is proud to...the re-opening of the Dahesh Museum of Art as well as its...publisher of WHERE New York. The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution...
- The Academy, Postmodernism and the Education of the Artist.(painter Alexandre...
- Magazine article from: Art in America TILLIM, SIDNEY April 1, 1999 700+ words
Reflecting on a Cabanel show at the Dahesh Museum, the author finds surprising links between Academic...Realism I've seen look abstract. Now there is the Dahesh Museum. Opened in New York in 1995 on the second floor of a midtown business...
- Dahesh Museum relocates. (Front Page).(New York City)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America November 1, 2002 700+ words
The Dahesh Museum of Art is in the process of moving to the former IBM Gallery in New York at 580 Madison Ave. between 56th and 57th Streets. The Dahesh, specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century academic art...
- Dahesh Museum to move to 590 Madison Ave. (Retail New York).
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly October 9, 2002 700+ words
...levels will be the new home of the Dahesh Museum. The space has its very own address...one says, 'I bought this in New York.' 580 Madison is across the...which will be occupied by the Dahesh Museum, was originally the IBM Gallery...
- Napoleon on the Nile.(art exhibition, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) September 1, 2006 700+ words
"NAPOLEON ON THE NILE: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt" brings together more than 80 large, exquisitely detailed engraved plate illustrations from the massive, encyclopedic compendium known as Description de l'Egypte, long considered the foundational work of modern Egyptology, along
- Dahesh Museum. (People).(Peter Trippi is appointed new director)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cash, Stephanie Ebony, David June 1, 2003 700+ words
Peter Trippi is the new director of the Dahesh Museum in New York, which will reopen in the former IBM Gallery space on 57th Street in September. Since 1998, he had been assistant vice director for development at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
- SBI.Razorfish Teams With Cool Culture to Launch Interactive Presence to Promote...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 4, 2003 700+ words
...nonprofit organization in New York City dedicated to facilitating...in the cultural life of New York City, in order to provide...Museum of Manhattan, Dahesh Museum of Art, El Museo del...Museum of the City of New York, Museum of Modern Art...
- Leading New York Museums Throw Open Their Doors to Soldiers and Sailors From...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 28, 2000 700+ words
...Museum Museum of the City of New York National Academy of Design New York Historical Society The Skyscraper...Hewitt National Design Museum Dahesh Museum Fraunces Tavern Museum Morris...Museum of the American Indian New York City Police Museum The Studio...