French Regional American Museum Exchange (FRAME) is a consortium of 26 major museums in France and North America that promotes cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations. FRAME fosters partnerships among its member museums to develop innovative exhibitions, educational and public programs, and professional exchanges among museum staff, and maintains a bi-lingual website to reach global audiences.
Major FRAME initiatives include critically-acclaimed traveling exhibitions including THE MOURNERS, touring in Europe following a 7-city U.S. tour that launched at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in partnership with FRAME in 2010. Following the opening at the Met, these rare Burgundian masterpieces from Dijon traveled to 6 FRAME museums in St. Louis, Dallas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Richmond. Over 500,000 visitors experienced this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, which was accompanied by a richly illustrated scholarly catalogue. CARAVAGGIO AND HIS LEGACY has concluded at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and opens next at the Wadsworth Atheneum on March 6, 2013. To date, nearly 400,000 visitors have seen the exhibition in Toulouse and Montpellier, France, and in Los Angeles. This remarkable FRAME collaboration has realized a critical and popular success for the exhibition and the accompanying scholarly catalogues in French and English, with the majority of loans from FRAME member museums.
TALKING ART is a successful example of how collaboration between FRAME museums fosters the sharing of ideas, resources, and professional exchange. ... more
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
“Art and Music” presented works by graduate composition students Brett Wartchow, Nick Zielinski, and Ishaya Yarison on March 17, 2011. “Art and Music” presented works by graduate composition students ... more
Dec 12, 2012
An unprecedented eight Caravaggio paintings on view together for the first time in California
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy, ... more
Dec 4, 2012
Los Angeles Art World Takes to the Tennis Court in Honor of Caravaggio
On Saturday evening, L.A.’s art crowd got sporty. FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange) hosted a benefit for the ... more
Dec 3, 2012
L.A. Art World Competes in a…Tennis Tournament?
This past Saturday, despite the threat and eventual onslaught of late-autumn rain, about 100 art-world players (tennis and otherwise) ... more
Nov 30, 2012
French and Los Angeles Art World Power Players Turn Out for Opening of “Lost (in L.A.)”
On Wednesday evening, François Delattre, French Ambassador to the United States, proclaimed: “Los Angeles is without doubt a cultural ... more