The Design Museum today unveiled plans to create the world’s leading museum of design and architecture at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, London. Designs for the site have been produced by two of the world’s most innovative architectural practices: John Pawson has redesigned the interior of the Grade 2* listed building and OMA has planned the surrounding residential development. The move will allow the new Design Museum to become a word class centre for design, ... Read More
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced a new licensing agreement with 1000Museums, the premier provider of archival reproductions from museums around the world. Now, with the help of print-on-demand technology, never-before-printed selections from the Foundation’s Archives will be available to admirers of Wright’s work. Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar J. Kaufmann House, “Fallingwater”, Mill Run, PA, 1935. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives is the most complete ... Read More
The Woodmere Art Museum announces Force of Nature on view February 17, 2012 – April 22, 2012. Force of Nature features two new exhibitions inspired by the natural world. Elaine Kurtz: A Retrospective provides a closer look at one of Philadelphia’s great woman artists, and Elemental explores the deep structures of nature that Kurtz and other local artists have used as a language of form. Elaine Kurtz: A Retrospective Elaine Kurtz’s works from the 1970s are geometric abstractions ... Read More
The Delaware Art Museum presents Painted Poetry: The Art of Mary Page Evans, a retrospective exhibition featuring approximately 50 paintings and drawings created by the artist between the 1960s and 2011. On view March 31 through July 15, 2012, this exhibition highlights Evans’ vibrant depictions of nature and the human form while celebrating the artist’s distinguished career. Twilight, 2010 Mary Page Evans (born 1937) Oil on canvas, 50 1/2 x 43 inches Collection of Olwen Pongrace To ... Read More
Each semester for the past 30 years, Fairbanks school children have settled down in front of a docent to learn the secrets of the museum. The lessons they absorb from the collections and exhibits are a result of a legacy of teamwork between local teachers and the museum’s education staff. Terry Dickey was the museum’s education director when the guided school tours program began in the spring of 1982. “We met with teachers who helped us design topics that matched learning outcomes with ... Read More
The Museum of Science present Geckos: Tails to Toepads, a new, temporary exhibit, on view from January 22 through May 6, 2012, that will provide visitors with an opportunity to take on the role of biologist and meet more than 60 living, exotic geckos face-to-face. Giant day gecko Photo by Bill Love National Geographic Museum Created by Peeling Productions at Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland, and sponsored locally by Jabberwock Reptiles. Geckos is a traveling exhibition that introduces ... Read More
The Delaware Art Museum welcomes the sixth annual Chinese New Year Celebration on Saturday, January 28 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. presented in conjunction with Hanlin Chinese Culture Association, this festive, free celebration includes traditional Chinese art activities, artist demonstrations, a dragon art scavenger hunt, a dragon dance and Chinese yo-yo performance by the Chinese American Community Center Folk Dance Troupe and Yo-Yo Club, and a special Chinese circus acrobatics performance by ... Read More
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art presents 10! The first Decade on view February 4, 2012 – May 27, 2012. Helen Frankenthaler (American, b. 1928); “Trespass”, 1974; acrylic on canvas, 94 x 94 in. Daum Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public in January 2002. It is named for collector and benefactor Harold F. Daum, MD, and contains 9 galleries devoted to the exhibition of art created since the mid-20th century. At its founding, the permanent collection comprised 300 ... Read More
With a $5 million grant that was awarded yesterday by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC), the Museum of Science, Boston can begin construction of a timely new exhibit, the Hall of Human Life (HHL), starting this summer. Envisioned as one of the Museum’s largest and most far-reaching exhibits, the Hall of Human Life, opening in July 2013, aims to revolutionize how people understand their own biology and manage their health. Designed to evolve with the accelerating ... Read More
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has selected a new site for the BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin, the combination think tank, public forum, and community center that will operate in Berlin from May 24 to July 29, 2012, as part of a nine-city, six-year tour. Berlin is the second stop for the Lab, following its successful inaugural run in New York City last fall. BMW Guggenheim Lab Architects rendering, Berlin site, Kreuzberg. View from Schlesische Stresse. Photo: Atelier Bow-Wow. The new site is in ... Read More
The University of Alaska Museum of the North has installed a new pipeline super pig on its grounds. The pig, donated to the museum’s ethnology and history collection by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, replaces a pig given to the museum in 1984. “That older, mostly steel and rubber pig has been on exhibit in the museum’s yard since it came to us. It sits in a vertical position in full sunlight,” said collection manager Angela Linn. “The rubber components have severely degraded over ... Read More
The University of Alaska Museum presents Leggy. Live Spiders and Their Relatives an exhibition on view through May 5, 2012. This exhibit explores the wildlife that lives among us, spiders and insects of the phylum Arthropoda. These creatures are known for their many legs and their many relatives. They are the most numerous and adaptable creatures on the planet. Featuring: • Live arthropods – spiders, tarantulas, cockroaches, scorpions, walking sticks, and more. • A darkened gallery ... Read More
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