Articles in Museum News
N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort Closing for Maintenance
The N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort is closing November 28 through December 7th, for maintenance, to it’s heating/air conditioning system. The Museum will resume its regular schedule on December 8th. The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort collects, preserves, researches, documents, and interprets the maritime history, culture and environment of coastal North Carolina. For more information, call 252-728-7317 or go to ncmaritimemuseums.com. ... Read More
Fotomuseum in Winterthru Opens Bernd und Hilla Becher. Mines and Mills – Industrial Landscapes
The Fotomuseum in Winterthru presents Bernd und Hilla Becher. Mines and Mills – Industrial Landscapes on view 26.11.2011 – 12.02.2012. Bernd and Hilla Becher, Zeche Concordia, Oberhausen, D, 1967. Gelatin silver print, 50 x 60 cm © Bernd and Hilla Becher / Courtesy of Schirmer/Mosel. For more than forty years, the photographer couple Bernd und Hilla Becher worked on creating an inventory of industrial architecture. Warehouses, shaft towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces as well as half-timbered houses are ... Read More
Yager Museum of Art & Culture Presents The Inventions of Leonardo daVinci
The Yager Museum of Art & Culture at Hartwick College presents The Inventions of Leonardo daVinci, on view through Friday, January 27, 2012. “The Inventions of Leonardo daVinci” features 16 contemporary models of mechanical devices conceived and designed by Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo daVinci. The fully operable models in the exhibition have been constructed from daVinci’s own drawings, which were recorded in notebooks until his death in 1519. DaVinci created drawings of such ... Read More
Museum of the Cherokee Indian Announces Emissaries of Peace Traveling Exhibition
The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will present a traveling exhibition “Emissaries of Peace” in 2012, with new programs showcasing Ostenaco’s and Henry Timberlake’s journey to each other’s countries 250 years ago. This exhibit tells the story of Henry Timberlake’s visit to the Cherokees in 1762, and how he took Cherokee leaders to London to meet with King George III. Timberlake’s Memoirs come to life through artifacts, archaeological treasures, period artwork, music, video, and life size ... Read More
Bristol City Council (BCC) Announce Art and the Public Realm Bristol Website
Bristol City Council (BCC) is pleased to announce a new web site for Bristol’s public art programme. Art and the Public Realm Bristol www.aprb.co.uk has been developed to mark the 10th anniversary of the Bristol’s Public Art Policy and to provide a showcase for city’s public art programme, events, talks and associated projects. Suzanne Lacy and Knowle West Media Centre, ‘University of Local Knowledge’(Ted Cockrell/Jowett 1933)’. Photo: Courtesy of KWMC, Bristol. This ... Read More
Fruitlands Museum Announces Zen Dust Exhibition
The Fruitlands Museum presents Zen Dust an exhibition on view 01/14/2012 throug 03/31/2012. The work in this exhibit was inspired by Linda Hoffman’s early training in the Zen Art of Noh Theater, in Kyoto, Japan. Once back in the West, Hoffman created her own art form that was poetic and spare – influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi- sabi. Wabi being loneliness, solitariness, the sight of lone crow on a crooked branch, a plum blossom peeking through snow, while sabi refers to objects that show the ... Read More
MoMA Opens Projects 96. Haris Epaminonda
MoMA presents Projects 96. Haris Epaminonda a solo exhibition on view November 17, 2011–February 20, 2012. For her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda (b. 1980, Cyprus) constructs a world based on connections between a three-channel video projection—part of her work titled Chronicles (2010)—and a museological-style installation of antique pottery, columns, plinths, niches, and pictures culled from old magazines and books. Among the books are travelogues ... Read More
United States Patent and Trademark Office Museum Presents Exercising Ingenuity Exhibition
The United States Patent and Trademark Office Museum in Alexandria, Virginia presents Exercising Ingenuity an exhibition highlighting inventions, patents, and trademarks that have emerged from the fitness, nutrition, and exercise industries. Organized in a decade by decade timeline approach, it presents many of the leading health and fitness innovations of each period, from the turn of the 20th century to tomorrow’s fitness breakthrough. The exhibition runs through October 2012. Exercising Ingenuity ... Read More
Fruitlands Museum Announces Shaker Photography Exhibition
The Fruitlands Museum presents an exhibition of rarely seen large-format photographs of the Harvard Shaker Village buildings, on loan from the Harvard Historical Society. Exhibition on view 01/14/2012 through 03/31/2012. These photographs were taken during the 1960s as part of the Historic American Building Survey, run by the National Park Service. There are 28 photographs in the show, many of them attributed to Jack E.Boucher. They feature both interior and exterior shots of the Shaker buildings, including some ... Read More
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern Opens Gianluigi Colin. Mitografias
The Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM) presents Gianluigi Colin. Mitografías an exhibition on view 23 November 2011 – 22 January 2012. With this exhibition proposal of the work of Gianluigi Colin, which comprises 26 drawings divided into four groups, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Mercury, and a large installation, The Wall, made up of 300 oil paintings on canvas, the IVAM addresses an analysis of the role of myths in today’s society. The themes chosen by Colin are taken from everyday life and reflect the ... Read More
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