The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will partner with the National Park Service and the American Geosciences Institute to celebrate the third annual National Fossil Day Oct. 17. The museum aims to raise public […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
11 a.m. ceremony begins celebration of eagerly awaited exhibit SEATTLE – The grand opening of The Museum of Flight’s new Space Shuttle Trainer exhibit is set for Saturday, Nov. 10, with the Trainer ready for […]
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum presents A SPOOKTACULAR Evening with Abe on Thursday October 18 at 6:00pm. The SPOOKTACULAR Evening is suitable for all ages and includes historical characters “haunting” the exhibit journeys, special eerie lighting […]
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida presents The Modern Impulse Photography from Interwar Period, an exhibition that reflects a transformative moment in photographic history during the tumultuous interwar years. On […]
Modern Art Oxford announce the appointment of David Thorp as Interim Director. Currently Associate Director for Artes Mundi, David is a well-respected curator and director who held directorial positions at South London Gallery, The Showroom […]
Jeu de Paume presents Muntadas Entre / Between, a major exhibition by internationally recognized artist Antoni Muntadas, one of the early practitioners of conceptual and media art. On view until 20 January 2013. Muntadas, This […]
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents BILDERBEDARF. The Civic and the Arts, on view 20 October 2012–17 February 2013. The exhibition BILDERBEDARF addresses the complex mutual relationship between art and civil society. For it seems that artists […]
Museum of Modern Art presents Some sweet day on October 15, 2012–November 04, 2012. Artist and choreographer Ralph Lemon has co-organized a three-week program of dance performances by six internationally renowned choreographers for The Museum […]
SculptureCenter presents A Disagreeable Object, an exhibition on view through November 26, 2012. Taking its title from Alberto Giacometti’s surrealist sculptures, this building-wide exhibition explores themes of desire and repulsion, the familiar and the unfamiliar. […]
Irish Museum of Modern Art opens Alice Maher Becoming, an exhibition on view 6 October 2012–3 February 2013. Alice Maher, Cassandra’s Necklace, 2012. Film still. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Vivienne Dick Becoming is a […]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrates American Indian Heritage Month throughout November with a series of performances, lectures, exhibitions, family activities and tours at various museums. For a full calendar of events, […]
Carnegie Museum of Art presents Inventing the Modern World. Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939, an exhibition on view October 13, 2012–February 24, 2013. John Bettridge and Co.; Pianoforte and stool, c. 1867, gilded […]
Louisiana Children’s Museum hosts Super Science Sat on on Saturday, October 20th from 11a.m. to 3p.m. & kick off National Chemistry Week by experimenting with members of the Louisiana Section of the American Chemical Society. […]
When German photographer Antonia Steeg was invited to attend the last muster at the historic Mesopotamia Station in 2008, the event lead to a four year long project. Antonia Steeg Glenfalloch Station, near Methven, New […]
Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents Romare Bearden. A Black Odyssey, an exhibition on view October 13, 2012 through Jan. 13, 2013. Romare Bearden, Home to Ithaca, 1977, Collage, Courtesy Mount Holyoke College Art […]
Walters Art Museum presents Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe. On view Oct. 14, 2012–Jan. 21, 2013, the exhibition features 73 paintings, sculptures, prints, manuscripts and printed books by great artists such as Rubens, […]
Haus der Kunst in Munich presents Ends of the Earth. Land art from the 1960s to 1974, an exhibition on view 11.10.12 – 20.01.13. As the first major museum exhibition on Land Art, “Ends of […]
Morgan Library & Museum presents Durer to de Kooning. 100 Master Drawings from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, one of Europe’s most distinguished drawings collections, in an exhibition on view October 12, 2012–January 6, 2013. […]