The Museum of Antiquities and Art and the Museum of Modern Ant bring together selections from the vast collection of Hudson Valley “residents Antigone and Antoine d’ Antwerp, and represent the creative work of ants from ancient times through to the contemporary.
Museum of Modern Ant
Selections from the PermanANT Collection
Curated by Norm Magnusson
You will find the Museum of Modern Ant in the window at Rhinebeck Mercantile.
This four story structure includes art by notable modern and contemporary artists, an original ant sculpture by Steve Miller in the style of Yayoi Kusama, two original ant sculptures by Lisa Winika and works by generous local Rhinebeck artists, including, amongst many others, Betsy Jacaruso, Michael McGrath, Ruby Palmer and Ransome.
Catalog
Exhibition Map
Top floor
Wall artists, left to right
- Betsy Jacaruso
- Vincent Van Gogh*
- Kehinde Wiley*
- Michael McGrath
- Faith Ringgold*
- Jean David Michel
- Georgia O’Keefe*
- Henri Matisse*
- Joanne Gelb
Sculpture
Third floor
Wall artists, left to right
- Inspired by Jenny Holzer
- Maira Kalman*
- Edward Hopper*
- Ransome
- Hilma af Klint*
- Audrey Francis
- Sonia Delaunay*
- Alexander Calder*
- Ruby Palmer
Sculpture
Second floor
Wall artists, left to right
- Franc Palaia
- Florine Stettheimer*
- Diego Rivera*
- Leslie Hill
- Richard Prouse
- Tom Cale
- Georges Braque*
- Willem de Kooning*
- Man Ray
Sculpture
Ground floor
Wall artists, left to right
- Chad Kleitsch
- Annie Leibovitz*
- Andrew Wyeth*
- Todd Germann
- Keith Haring
- Claude Monet*
- Unidentified Australian artist
- Laurence Sisk (inspired by Réne Magritte)
Sculpture
*Ai creation in the style of this artist
All other non-sculptural pieces have ants added, either with glue or in Photoshop.
Museum of Art and Antiquities
Selections from the PermanANT Collection
Curated by Jennifer Breslin
Displayed in the Beaux Arts Museum of Antiquities and Arts, in the window at Winter Sun and Summer Moon, are works from ancient Egypt, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Americas and Africa, as well as tapestry, paintings, books, and sculpture from medieval times to the late 1700s.
Well known artists such as Vermeer, LeBrun, David, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Bosch, are featured. A special exhibit on anthill architecture is on show in the Great Hall.
Note: Unless otherwise indicated in the Museum brochures or above, the art has been ai-generated, digitally altered, or ant-retrofitted.”
Catalog
Exhibition Map
4th Floor, Offices & Restoration Studios
3rd Floor Galleries, Medieval – Renaissance
- Middle Eastern Design, 1000
- French Tapestry, 1500
- Latin American Religious Art, 1600
- Book of Kells, 800s
- Illuminated Manuscripts, 1400s
2nd Floor Galleries, Renaissance
- Sofonisba Anguissola, 1600
- Primavera, edited, Botticelli, 1500
- Michelangelo, 1540
- Hand of God, edited, Michelangelo, 1512
- Ant Reading Letter, edited, Vermeer, 1657
- Jan Van Eyck, 1440
1st Floor Galleries, 16-18th Century
- Hieronymus Bosch, 1510
- Hieronymus Bosch 1510
- Vigee Le Brun, 1790
- Vigee Le Brun, 1780
- Jacques-Louis David, 1780
- Hans Holbein, 1520
- George Washington, Unknown
Great Hall
Building: Anthill Architecture
- Zaha Hadid, UK, 2015
- Steve Hol, Architect, Rhinebeck, 2023
- Maya Lin, Washington DC, 2005
- Frank Gehry, Los Angeles, 2000
- Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona, 1885
- Alma Siechoff-Buscher and Gropius, Bauhaus, 1925
- Julia Morgan, San Francisco, 1910
- American Farmhouse, Unknown, NY, 1880
- Banner: Egyptian Papyrus Fragment, ant builders, 1300BC
Women at the Helm
- Banner: Empress Suiko, ant added in, Japan, 330
Antiquities
- Pompei Fresco Fragment, Italy, 70
- Petroglyph Fragment, ants added in, Pueblo Tribe, New Mexico, 1300 13 Mayan Ant Sculpture, 250-900 14 Greek Mosaic Floor, Athens, 300
- African Ant Sculture, 1000
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