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Exhibition Showcases Twenty-Two Innovative Artists, from Jasper Johns and Claes Oldenburg to Tara Donovan and Michael Oatman BOSTON, MA – Though richly varied in style, content, and medium, works on view in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), exhibition New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages share a common thread: they are recently acquired (by purchase, gift, and bequest) and boldly inventive, created by cutting-edge American and European artists. More than 30 prints, drawings, and collages, made from ... Read the full story

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn has announced at a special luncheon that it is donating $75,000 to the The Los Angeles County Museum of Art to support it’s film program. LACMA had announced that it would be ending its weekend screening series for budgetary reasons. But the museum reversed its decision following a public outcry and pressure from prominent filmmakers including Martin Scorsese. The LACMA film program specializes in retrospectives of Hollywood and international directors and stars. Share ... Read the full story

BENTONVILLE, Ark., – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originally created as a frontispiece for the December 10, 1910 issue of Collier’s magazine, and Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter (1943), an iconic representation of the American work ethic that provided the May 29, 1943 cover of the Saturday Evening Post, will go on ... Read the full story

BOSTON, MA – From masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh to Japanese tattoo designs and contemporary photography, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents works from around the world as it hosts a “Free Fun Friday” on July 30th from 10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. The event features admission to special exhibitions, family activities, and gallery tours of the collection. It is made possible through the support of the Highland Street Foundation, which invites the greater Boston community to visit a different ... Read the full story

Youngstown – Masterworks from The Butler Institute of American Art, a three year effort by Butler staff, contains full color reproductions of one hundred sixty of Butler’s most beloved works. Recent acquisitions, including the Butler’s new Jackson Pollock and Norman Rockwell paintings, are included in this stunning, 416 page volume, printed in the USA by City Printing Company of Youngstown. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Pollock Personal Foundation of Youngstown, and many ... Read the full story

The Butler Institute of American Art hosts its annual holiday craft show the first weekend in December. A members preview will be held December 3, and public days for the sale are December 4 & 5, 2010. Proceeds from the event support Butler education programs and the Butler free admission policy. Call 330.743.1107, ext. 112 for information. To accommodate this special event, all permanent and special exhibits will close November 31 and reopen December 14. The Butler Institute is the first museum of ... Read the full story

Youngstown – Pierre Soulages (born 1919), an internationally renowned artist of French origin, has a worldwide following. Recently, the Pompidou Centre in Paris hosted a retrospective of work by Frances famed “painter of black,” drawing from collections around the globe to honor Soulages, a French cultural icon. In 1968, Pierre Soulages created a site-specific tile mural commissioned by the owners of One Oliver Plaza, a building in Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2009, the Oliver building was sold and the new ... Read the full story

Milwaukee, Wis. – The Sam Francis Foundation has donated over 500 prints to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Sam Francis (1923–1994) was an American painter and printmaker who used a variety of colors and techniques to experiment with both surrealism and abstract expressionism. “We are honored to accept this gift from the Foundation, representing nearly all of Sam Francis’ lithographs, etchings, and screenprints dating from the early 1960s to the 1990s,” said Mary Weaver Chapin, associate curator of prints ... Read the full story

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced the acquisition through gift and purchase of more than 160 works from the exceptional private decorative arts collection of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle, collectors based in Potomac, Maryland. The Eagle Collection represents artwork from the 1940s to today with strength in ceramics by West Coast artists, but also encompasses fiber art, furniture, glass, jewelry, metalwork, sculpture, and works on paper. While the collection is primarily American in scope, artists ... Read the full story

Extended weekend hours have been put in place to accommodate large crowds of visitors wishing to see the Mummies of the World exhibit for the remainder of the summer. Starting Saturday, July 31, Mummies of the World will be open two additional hours every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Sept. 5, it was announced today by Jeff Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center and Marc Corwin, CEO of American Exhibitions, Inc. The exhibition will remain open until 7 p.m. PDT on weekends with the ... Read the full story

The completion of the East Gate Entry at the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum, demonstrates the continued progress being made and represents the commitment to complete this important development, even in challenging times. Native peoples have always recounted history, communicated beliefs and shared values through the art of storytelling. Sometimes this was conveyed through oral traditions, other times important lessons or occasions were recorded in petroglyphs, incorporated into weavings, pottery ... Read the full story

Johnny Rockets in Los Angeles Petersen Automotive Museum celebrates its one year anniversary by offering guests one dollar hand-dipped shakes all day on Sunday, August 1, 2010. Since first opening in August 2009, Johnny Rockets’ Petersen Automotive Museum location has sold nearly 75,000 hamburgers and recently unveiled a newly-designed menu that highlights favorites like Original Hamburgers, American Fries and hand-dipped shakes. Located on L.A.’s famous Miracle Mile, Johnny Rockets provides ... Read the full story

The Museum of Bond Vehicles has announced its plans in Momence, Illinois, USA. It will host the exclusive collection of the Ian Fleming Foundation, including the world’s largest collection of vehicles used in James Bond films. Said to open in 2012, the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie, Dr. No, the Gensler-designed museum is a partnership between the Ian Fleming Foundation, the Kankakee County Museum, and the City of Momence, Illinois. http://bondvehiclemuseum.org Share ... Read the full story

Flashing blue lights, bells and sirens will greet visitors to Crich Tramway Village on Sunday 1st August as the award winning family attraction hosts its annual Emergency Vehicles Day. The period street will once again echo to the sounds of an emergency as fire engines, ambulances and police cars make haste to various ‘incidents’. At set times throughout the day convoys of emergency vehicles will provide endless photo opportunities with the historic trams. Crich Tramway Village is a lovingly restored period ... Read the full story

Crich Tramway Village – Home of the National Tramway Museum announces that it will be offering FREE entry to serving British Armed Forces personnel and their partners at its 1940s Weekend on 14th and 15th August this year. The weekend event is one of the biggest in the calendar at Crich and this year will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Visitors will be able to see an RAF base, replica Spitfire and by kind permission of the Battle of Britain Historical Society, the tram shelter ... Read the full story