Exhibition Showcases Twenty-Two Innovative Artists, from Jasper Johns and Claes Oldenburg to Tara Donovan and Michael Oatman BOSTON, MA – Though richly varied in style, content, and medium, works on view in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), exhibition New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages share a common thread: they are recently acquired (by purchase, gift, and bequest) and boldly inventive, created by cutting-edge American and European artists. More than 30 prints, drawings, and collages, made from ... Read the full story

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn has announced at a special luncheon that it is donating $75,000 to the The Los Angeles County Museum of Art to support it’s film program. LACMA had announced that it would be ending its weekend screening series for budgetary reasons. But the museum reversed its decision following a public outcry and pressure from prominent filmmakers including Martin Scorsese. The LACMA film program specializes in retrospectives of Hollywood and international directors and stars. Share ... Read the full story

BOSTON, MA – From masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh to Japanese tattoo designs and contemporary photography, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents works from around the world as it hosts a “Free Fun Friday” on July 30th from 10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. The event features admission to special exhibitions, family activities, and gallery tours of the collection. It is made possible through the support of the Highland Street Foundation, which invites the greater Boston community to visit a different ... Read the full story

Youngstown – Masterworks from The Butler Institute of American Art, a three year effort by Butler staff, contains full color reproductions of one hundred sixty of Butler’s most beloved works. Recent acquisitions, including the Butler’s new Jackson Pollock and Norman Rockwell paintings, are included in this stunning, 416 page volume, printed in the USA by City Printing Company of Youngstown. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Pollock Personal Foundation of Youngstown, and many ... Read the full story

The Butler Institute of American Art hosts its annual holiday craft show the first weekend in December. A members preview will be held December 3, and public days for the sale are December 4 & 5, 2010. Proceeds from the event support Butler education programs and the Butler free admission policy. Call 330.743.1107, ext. 112 for information. To accommodate this special event, all permanent and special exhibits will close November 31 and reopen December 14. The Butler Institute is the first museum of ... Read the full story

The completion of the East Gate Entry at the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum, demonstrates the continued progress being made and represents the commitment to complete this important development, even in challenging times. Native peoples have always recounted history, communicated beliefs and shared values through the art of storytelling. Sometimes this was conveyed through oral traditions, other times important lessons or occasions were recorded in petroglyphs, incorporated into weavings, pottery ... Read the full story

Johnny Rockets in Los Angeles Petersen Automotive Museum celebrates its one year anniversary by offering guests one dollar hand-dipped shakes all day on Sunday, August 1, 2010. Since first opening in August 2009, Johnny Rockets’ Petersen Automotive Museum location has sold nearly 75,000 hamburgers and recently unveiled a newly-designed menu that highlights favorites like Original Hamburgers, American Fries and hand-dipped shakes. Located on L.A.’s famous Miracle Mile, Johnny Rockets provides ... Read the full story

Flashing blue lights, bells and sirens will greet visitors to Crich Tramway Village on Sunday 1st August as the award winning family attraction hosts its annual Emergency Vehicles Day. The period street will once again echo to the sounds of an emergency as fire engines, ambulances and police cars make haste to various ‘incidents’. At set times throughout the day convoys of emergency vehicles will provide endless photo opportunities with the historic trams. Crich Tramway Village is a lovingly restored period ... Read the full story

Southampton is celebrating after being awarded £7.2million from the Arts Council England to build a new arts complex in the centre of the city. An additional allocation of £1.5million agreed last week, on top of the £5.7million originally offered to the scheme, will support a number of essential changes to the project, including the re-design and relocation of the gallery to the ground floor. Southampton City Council and Arts Council England will continue to work closely together and in the coming weeks will ... Read the full story

A museum commemorating an earthquake that killed more than 240,000 people 34 years ago in north China’s Tangshan City opened to the public Wednesday on its anniversary. Covering an area of 12,000 square meters, the museum displays more than 400 photographs and 600 pieces of articles concerning the 1976 earthquake and seven models that give a snapshot of the disaster and relief operations, said a spokesman with the museum. The museum is located inside a memorial park built on the ruins of a locomotive plant ... Read the full story

The redevelopment project will unite three currently separate buildings, the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford Museum and Bedford Gallery, in one building. For the first time, Bedford’s unique collections will be housed under one roof enabling the Art Gallery & Museum to provide excellent new services improved access and fantastic facilities. The Art Gallery & Museum will provide excellent community facilities at the heart of the cultural quarter and make a significant contribution to the ... Read the full story

This summer, the National Railway Museum present a jam-packed schedule of activities to keep the whole family entertained. The theme is the seaside, 1930s style – we’re celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Great Western Railway, which promoted itself as the ‘holiday line’. Special Events: Yorkshire Weekend 31 July – 1 August: Make sure you visit us for Yorkshire Day – as well as everything below, two celebrity guest donkeys Bubbles and Billy will be here, and you can enjoy a Punch ... Read the full story

BOSTON, MA – Themes such as the passage of time and the enduring nature of close family relationships are brought into focus in the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Family Album at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The show, on view from July 28, 2010, through May 1, 2011, in the MFA’s Herb Ritts Gallery, features more than 70 black and white portrait photographs by Nicholas Nixon, one of the most celebrated American photographers of this generation. Among them are pictures of Nixon’s wife, Beverly ... Read the full story

The Erie Art Museum is proud to announce that it has received a Museums for America grant for $91,714 from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, to support the Museum’s popular Kids As Curators program for the next three years. In announcing the award, IMLS noted that it had received 510 applications, but was only able to award grants to 178 projects—based on a peer review process—for a total investment of $19.5 million. The Kids as Curators program is a unique Museum collaboration with ... Read the full story

Enjoy hands-on activities and special demonstrations all summer long as Naper Settlement celebrates “Summer at the Settlement” at its historic museum village, located at 523 S. Webster St. in Naperville. Ongoing activities include the popular geocache medallion hunt, bucket brigade, yoke and bucket carrying, flag-raising at Fort Payne, grinding corn, making butter and many more activities. Throughout August, Settlement Sundays feature free do-it-yourself ice cream sundaes and special activities ... Read the full story