Article Archive for December 2009
Broad Museum to Break Ground in March 2010
Michigan State University will break ground on the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on March 16, 2010. Eli Broad, who donated the naming gift for the project, and Zaha Hadid, the internationally known architect who designed the building, are expected to attend. The groundbreaking will be followed by 23 months of construction and a 2012 museum opening. A view of the planned Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum from the northwest. Courtesy: Zaha Hadid Architects The university also announced the creation of the Eli and ... Read More
Clyfford Still Museum in Denver Starts Work on Future Home
The Clyfford Still Museum officially broke ground on its future home in a public ceremony that brought together Denver City officials, art and cultural ambassadors, and business leaders. Scheduled to open in 2011 in the heart of Denver’s vibrant arts district, the museum will provide an intimate environment for the viewing of the Still Estates, encompassing some 2,400 works spanning the artist’s career and representing one of the most comprehensive single-artist holdings in the world. Designed by ... Read More
Tapestries and Prints at the Carnegie Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art presents the dynamic new exhibition Gods, Love, and War: Tapestries and Prints from the Collection, opening December 19, 2009. Highlighting a selection of six large-scale tapestries dating from the 16th and 17th centuries and 40 prints from Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection, the exhibition explores the historical popularity of tapestries as well as the patrons, artists, and studios that created the taste for tapestries. Charles Le Brun, designer (French, 1619-1690), Workshop of Jan ... Read More
Hollywood Entertainment Museum’s 100 Year Collection Up for Auction to Save Education for At-Risk Youth
The Hollywood Entertainment Museum is offering a historic opportunity that no Movie Fan, Collector, or Film Aficionado will want to miss. 100 years of Hollywood History will be auctioned to the public for the first time in an effort to save the Hollywood Media Arts Academy from the current economic climate, a foundation that inspires and educates high school drop-outs, youth on probation and students in need of an alternative. The collection is being presented by SuperAuctions.com, the world’s largest ... Read More
Crystal Bridges Museum Seeks Submissions for Massey Exhibition
From the dilapidated back road barn to the backyard oak scarred by last winter’s ice storm but still standing, Northwest Arkansas is rich with landscapes at risk of being lost. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is inviting residents of Northwest Arkansas to grab their cameras, get outdoors and capture the landscapes that are most meaningful to them – especially those threatened by development, disease and the ravages of age. Photos of treasured sites in Benton, Carroll, Madison and Washington ... Read More
Tellus Science Museum Passes 100,000 Planetarium Visitors in First Year
Tellus Science Museum’s digital planetarium surpassed 100,000 visitors on Monday, Dec. 14, 2010, capping off an incredible first year for the museum. “For a planetarium our size, we are seeing three times the normal attendance of most planetariums attached to science museums,” said Tellus Astronomy Program Manager David Dundee. The Tellus planetarium seats 120 visitors and offers four different shows running multiple times throughout each day. The shows are an immersive experience, with topics ... Read More
Musical Instruments of the Pacific Islands at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, the first exhibition devoted to the subject ever mounted by an art museum at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring more than 50 outstanding works—including percussion, wind, and string instruments—the exhibition will explore not only the diverse forms of Oceanic musical instruments but also the many different roles they play, or played, in Pacific cultures, from announcing the onset of war to embodying the voices of supernatural beings or softly ... Read More
The Vatican Museums 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch
ItalyGuides introduce’s The Vatican Museums 1.0, their new interactive travel guide for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, The Vatican Museums tells the story of what human ingenuity has created through the ages and features interactive maps, two hours of audio guides and over 170 breathtaking photos. From the painstaking research of authentic content, to the narratives by American voice actor and writer ... Read More
Exhibition for Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus at Groninger Museum
The Groninger Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus (both, 1972) on the occasion of their tenth working anniversary. In the course of these ten years, Willhelm and Kraus have realized more than 30 collections. The exhibition will offer an extensive selection from these, with both men’s and women’s wear. Willhelm and Kraus’s unconventional fashion is characterized by an outspoken visual language in which they give expression to the grotesque, the ... Read More
The Corning Museum of Glass Offers Special Activities for Holiday Break
The Corning Museum of Glass offers special Holiday Break activities, December 26, 2009 – January 3, 2010. In addition to the daily exhibitions, Hot Glass Shows and other glassmaking demos, the Museum also will offer the following family-friendly activities, most of which are included in the cost of admission (unless otherwise noted). *Winter Wonders Gallery Hunt: Find winter-inspired objects throughout the galleries. *Special Hot Glass Show Features: Be a glass designer at You Design It; We Make It! And find ... Read More
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