Art Museums Participating in Digital Homage to Rembrandt: 1669 - 2019

Artist Mel Alexenberg launches cyberangels from Israel to thirty museums throughout the world as an homage to Rembrandt on the 350th anniversary of his death. These museums have Rembrandt inspired artworks by Alexenberg in their collections. At Global Tribute to Rembrandt are posts for each of the museums and texts on the impact of digital culture on art by the artist, former art professor at Columbia University and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

"Angel Announcing the Birth of Samson to Manoah" (after Rembrandt drawing in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY) serigraph by Mel Alexenberg, 1987.  Read his book Through a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media.  

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History wrote that Mel Alexenberg’s “Digitized Homage to Rembrandt” lithograph from a computer-generated image is a most valuable addition to the national collection as a historic prototype of the use of new technology in printmaking.

The members of the acquisitions committee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York wrote that they were pleased to accept Alexenberg’s computer-assisted etching of Rembrandt’s imagery as an example of innovative technological experimentation of great interest to students of the development of graphic techniques.  

The first group of museums below represent seven of the 12 states in which there are places named JerUSAlem. Museums in the other five states, Arkansas, Maryland, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont, are also invited to participate in the Global Tribute to Rembrandt. See http://jerusalem-usa.blogspot.com. The second group are museums in USA and third group are museums throughout the world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

"Fortune 500 Angel" is a photoetching by Alexenberg created as a tribute to Rembrandt the businessman.  Read Svetlana Alperes' book Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky; San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming.

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel; Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria; Malmo Art Museum, Malmo, Sweden; Art Museum of The Hague, The Netherlands; Rembrandthuis Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela.