Article Archive for March 2010
Quilts 1700 – 2010 Exhibition at The V&A
Supported by the Friends of the V&A With further support from Coats Crafts and the Coats Foundation Trust The V&A presents its first major exhibition of quilts, open through 4 July 2010. Exploring 300 years of British quilt making, the exhibition shows more than 65 quilts from a cot cover made in the 1690s to recent examples by leading contemporary artists including Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry as well as special commissions by Sue Stockwell, Caren Garfen and Jo Budd. The first exhibition of its kind ... Read More
Morris Museum Receives Grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.
Morristown, NJ – The Morris Museum has received a $7,000 grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. The grant will fund a science-based collaboration with the Sussex Avenue School of the Morris School District. “As a teaching institution, educational programming is integral to our mission. This grant from Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. will enable the Morris Museum to continue our important work with students. This partnership with Sussex Avenue School will enhance science education and bring hands-on learning to museum ... Read More
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Gets Green Energy
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is now partially powered by the sun, thanks to Green Mountain Energy Company and its customers. Green Mountain, Texas’ first retail electric provider to offer cleaner energy, donated a solar array system to the Museum. The new solar array will help reduce the Museum’s carbon footprint and energy costs, and will be used as a teaching tool for Museum guests. Green Mountain’s Super Earth Mascot, The Museum’s Dynamo Mascot, officials from the Museum, ... Read More
Walter P. Chrysler Museum to Host Specialty Vehicle Program
The Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills, Mich., will host a specialty vehicle presentation by Walt McCall, 9:30 a.m. – noon Saturday, April 17. One of North America’s best known and most prolific authors on the subject of motor fire apparatus, McCall’s two-part program – How I Got Hooked (and Laddered): Confessions of a Lifelong Fire Engine Buff and The Professional Car: The Rise and Decline of Passenger Car-Based Ambulances and Funeral Cars – will showcase decades of vehicle ... Read More
Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color at The Miami Art Museum
Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color explores the artist’s pioneering contribution to the experimental practices that emerged in the decades of the Sixties and Seventies that proposed the dematerialization of the object to create participatory environment that involved the body, senses and subjectivity of the spectator, turning the viewer into a participant in the art work. Open March 20 – June 20, 2010. The exhibition will feature Cromosaturación (Chromosaturation), a site-specific ... Read More
AGO Puts Focus to Local Artists for Toronto Now Series
Inaugural installation invites patrons to dine inside the artwork TORONTO – The AGO is going local. A new exhibition series featuring the works of emerging and established Toronto artists will open at the Gallery on March 27. Titled Toronto Now, the rotating series will feature a different local artist every two months, giving Torontonians the opportunity to view the wealth of artistic talent in their city. The series will inhabit the Young Gallery, a free, street-level space adjacent to Frank restaurant, ... Read More
Georgia Museum of Art to host exhibition as part of UGA’s upcoming 225th anniversary
The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) is organizing “University of Georgia Turns 225,” an exhibition beginning March 19, 2010, that will celebrate UGA’s 225th anniversary. The exhibition will display visual art that reflects both the history and the current state of UGA and its campus life. Paintings by Lamar Dodd, the founder of the University’s art school, will be on display, including “The Arch” (1939) and “North Campus,” as will works by such other notable artists as George Cooke, Charles ... Read More
Folkwang Museum Masterpieces Reunited
The Museum Folkwang’s masterpieces have been reunited again for the first time in over 70 years. The museum’s spectacular pre-1933 collection has been reassembled for the first large-scale special exhibition in the New Building designed by David Chipperfield Architects. The Museum Folkwang was home to one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary art worldwide in the 1920s and early 1930s. On his visit to Essen in 1932, Paul J. Sachs, co-founder of the MoMA in New York, called it “the ... Read More
Erie Art Museum Seeking Bright Ideas in Product Design
People are inventing the future everyday, and some of them are right here in Pennsylvania. If you’re one of them, there’s a chance to take your bright idea and turn it into a reality. Now in its second year, InnovationErie Design Competition 2010 offers an opportunity for individuals to compete for prizes that provide not only monetary rewards, but also chances to advance their ideas through professional assistance including prototyping, business plan development, logo design, etc. The competition is a ... Read More
BankAtlantic to Sponsor the Tampa Museum of Art
BankAtlantic, Florida’s Most Convenient Bank, announced today that it has partnered with the Tampa Museum of Art to sponsor its free Saturday drop-in program, “The Art Spot”. The Museum’s Saturday morning drop-in program offers children the opportunity to explore their own creativity by creating various art projects in the museum’s classroom. As part of the program, the children and families will also get a chance to visit and tour the galleries. “The Art Spot” projects ... Read More
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