The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dirk H. Breiding as the J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of Arms and Armor. Currently an Assistant Curator in the Arms and Armor Department at the […]
Antiquities
J. Paul Getty Museum opens Untold Stories. Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts an exhibition on view February 26–May 12, 2013. Miniatures from Boethius, Consolation de philosophie, about 1460–1470. German. Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, […]
The Getty Museum announced that the sculpture Lion Attacking a Horse, on loan from the Capitoline Museums in Rome, will be on extended view at the Getty Villa until May 6, 2013. Lion Attacking a […]
Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection an exhibition on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013, featuring nearly 100 works. After a Gladiator Fight During a Meal […]
Frick Art & Historical Center presents A Kind of Alchemy. Medieval Persian Ceramics an exhibition on view February 23, 2013–June 16, 2013. Calligraphic Bowl, Northeastern Iran (probably Nishapur), 10th century. Earthenware painted on a white […]
Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Caporali Missal. A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination an exhibition on view February 17, 2013 to June 2, 2013. Caporali Missal, from the convent of San Francesco, Montone, near Perugia, […]
The Collection Lincoln & The Usher Gallery present The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old. Contemporary Art and Archaeology from the Stone Age to the Present on view 2 February–7 May, 2013. Roger Hiorns, […]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and Albany State University will co-host a daylong program to help southwest Georgia residents identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away […]
The British Museum is exhibiting a Sowei mask. spirit of Sierra Leone in an exhibition on view 14 February 2013 – 28 April 2013. The mask featured in this display was collected in 1886 by […]
New York State Museum presents From New York to the White House, New York Residents Who Became President, an exhibition on view February 15, through Sunday, February 17, 2013. The exhibit features the original draft […]
Tennessee State Museum presents Discovering the Civil War, a landmark exhibition from Washington D.C.’s National Archives, on view Feb 12 – Sept 1, 2013. Discovering the Civil War draws on these through letters, diaries, photos, […]
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia displays The Lod Mosaic in an exhibition on view February 10 – May 12, 2013. The Lod Mosaic Image © Israel Antiquities Authority More than 300 square feet and nearly […]
Metropolitan Museum Examines Changing Image of Eros, Ancient Greek God of Love, from Antiquity to Renaissance in an exhibition on view through June 23, 2013 . In Greek mythology, Eros was the god of love. […]
Barber Institute of Fine Arts presents Close to the Heart 17th- to 19th-century Portrait Miniatures from UK Collections, an exhibition on view through 5 May 2013. Barber Institute of Fine Arts Close to the Heart […]
Organized and on view through June 16, 2013 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon – Identities and Conquest in the Ancient, Colonial and Modern Eras will […]
Nationalmuseum has acquired a miniature portrait by Adelaide Labille-Guiard. One of the most important women artists in late 18th-century France, she was not previously represented in the museum’s collections. The work is interesting on account […]
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presents One Man’s Search for Ancient China. The Paul Singer Collection, an exhibition on view Jan. 19–July 7, 2013. Paul Singer’s apartment in Summit, New Jersey, 1997. Photo by John Tsantes. […]
A collection of nearly 500 items of renaissance gold and silver has been bequeathed to Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum by the late collector Michael Wellby. The collection which includes a rare lapis lazuli bowl, made […]