In preparation for the move its new, expanded facility at Museum Park, Miami Art Museum will present the first, long-term installation of its growing Permanent Collection in the museum’s largest exhibition space, the 9,000 square foot Upper Level Gallery. BETWEEN HERE AND THERE: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, opening Sunday, February 28, 2010, will remain in place with periodic changes until MAM moves to the new museum, scheduled for completion in 2013. The exhibition offers ... Read the full story

Open March 5, 2010 through May 13, 2010 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm This exhibit highlights the work of students receiving their bachelor of fine arts degrees from IAIA, including: Kit Julianto Sarah Ferber Toneh Chuleewah Amber Johnson Dwayne Manuel Elizabeth Smith Joanne Morales Meghan Begay Taylor Hurley Natasha Wagner Sherry Farrell Racette, a 2009-2010 scholar at the School for Advanced Research will guest curate. A special opening reception will be held Friday, March 5 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. A closing ... Read the full story

To Make a Picture: The Photography of P. H. Polk from the Paul R. Jones Collection, on exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art open through May 23, explores the life’s work of Prentice Herman (P. H.) Polk (1898-1985). Polk was a Bessemer, Alabama native who became one of the most important African-American photographers of the 20th century. The 28 silver gelatin photographic prints in this exhibition are from the renowned Paul R. Jones collection of African-American art. To Make a Picture coincides with Black ... Read the full story

‘Consider the lilies’ – to celebrate the opening of the new McManus Art Gallery and Museum this showcase of around 50 Scottish masterpieces from 1910 – 1980 will open to the public on the Official Opening Day – 28th February 2010. Most of the leading artists of the period are featured, including Edward Baird, John Bellany, the Scottish Colourists, Stanley Cursiter, John Duncan, Will Maclean, Alberto Morrocco and James McIntosh Patrick, highlighting the best of Dundee’s ... Read the full story

The Erie Art Museum Contemporary Music Series presents a special concert of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble on Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 8 p.m. at the Erie Art Museum in the second floor annex. After 35 years, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is still serving their special brand of 21st century Griot music to people worldwide. The Chicago Tribune writes the trio is “harmonically provocative and rhythmically seductive,” and they consistently deliver jazz that combines ancestral wisdom, exploratory improvisation, ... Read the full story

Open through May 23, 2010 • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Organized by Alan Chong, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection, and Valentine Talland, Senior Objects Conservator BOSTON, MA – In Italy during the Renaissance (around 1400 to 1600), an innovative form of sculpture was developed using fine clay that was shaped and modeled before being fired in a kiln. Called terracotta in Italian (meaning “baked earth”), this type of sculpture often has been overlooked by scholars in favor ... Read the full story

Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art celebrates the art of the West and views cowboy boots as important symbols of western life. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, postcards, advertisements, sculptures, video imagery, and of course boots. The images define changing aspects of the West, from 1880 to the present. The exhibition includes more than 130 objects and pairs of boots that investigate freedom, neliness, gender, fashion, allure and contemporary art. The exhibition opens May 14, 2010 and runs through ... Read the full story

The El Paso Museum of Art announces spring classes in life drawing, polymer clay jewelry, paper jewelry, fabric and wire necklaces, and crochet cuffs, bracelets and bangles. These are adult classes for ages 15 years old and up. Please call 915.532.1707 ext 27 or go online at www.elpasoartmuseum.org for more information. Thursdays, April 1 – May 27 Life Drawing, 5:30-8:30pm – Self-guided $5 per session for Museum Members/$10 per session for non-members For students ages 18 years old and up. Students will ... Read the full story

This year, the Dutch Railway Museum will be organising a major international exhibition on royal trains under the title: Royal Class, regal journeys. For the first time ever, historical royal trains from all over Europe can be seen in a single exhibition. All these magnificent trains provide a unique impression of the luxurious style in which European royalty once travelled. Royal Class, regal journeys will be open from 15 April through 5 September 2010 in the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht. Railway carriages ... Read the full story

The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched a brand new on-line resource for pupils at Key Stage 3 and 4. Health Histories uses primary source material to allow students to investigate pharmacy history in the 20th century. Written with the British Dental Museum, the project was inspired by the discovery that both pharmacy and dentistry get little mention in the history of medicine taught in secondary schools. Primary sources are provided alongside suggested activities and questions, and include ... Read the full story

Cleversafe Inc., the leader in resilient storage solutions ideally suited for storage clouds and massive digital archives, announced the one year anniversary of working with Chicago-based Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC). Cleversafe’s unique Dispersed Storage™ technology stores historic radio and television content while providing a seamless delivery system to a global audience of approximately 48,000 registered MBC members. Cleversafe’s dsNet system is designed to store MBC’s 100,000 ... Read the full story

The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is welcoming an exhibition of Alberto Schommer’s work to its BBK Room, entitled Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009. Born in nearby Vitoria, he has produced many still life photographs, portraits, landscapes and “cracklegraphs” which have been incorporated into the Spanish canon of photography. The Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009 offers art buffs an opportunity to learn all about the impact that his work had on the country and on other artists though this exposition of ... Read the full story

PHILADELPHIA, PA – This summer, adventurous children ages 7 through 13 can experience a day camp that takes them through time and across continents at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Penn’s campus in Philadelphia. “Anthropologists in the Making,” organized by the Education Department of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, runs eight theme-oriented one-week sessions from June 21 through August 13, 2010. Camp ... Read the full story

War, Plague and Fire, a new gallery exploring the tumultuous century from the accession of Elizabeth 1 in 1558 to the Great Fire of 1666 opens this week at the Museum of London. The Great Fire Experience Bringing alive one of the most turbulent periods in London’s history, the gallery is full of treasures from the Museum’s unique collections, including printing plates from London’s earliest map, rare delftware pottery, exquisite Jacobean jewels, Oliver Cromwell’s death mask, and archaeology from the fire ... Read the full story

PHILADELPHIA, PA – In Citizen’s Garb: Southern Plains Native Americans, 1889-1891, a photographic exhibition on view at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from March 26 through June 20, 2010, explores the ways dress—and life—changed for the Kiowa, Comanche, and other Native American nations of the Southern Plains during the last tumultuous decades of the 1800s. Plains Indian clothing from the period, selected from the Museum’s own collection, complements ... Read the full story