Articles in Museum News
The Frick Updates its Historic Enamels Room Cases and Conserves a Remarkable Collection
New York’s Frick Collection is home to one of the most important groups of Renaissance enamels in the world, ranking alongside those of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, The Wallace Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The forty-two enamels in The Frick Collection were produced in the city of Limoges, in central France, from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. A selection of the Frick’s ... Read More
CAM Raleigh Wins 2011 AIA Design Awards
CAM Raleigh announced it has received awards in both the design (Merit) and preservation (Tower) catagories of the 2011 AIA Design Awards. AIA Design Awards – Merit Each year AIA celebrates the achievements of architects across the state. AIA Tower Awards Recognizing well-designed projects by AIANC members that exemplify historic preservation and adaptive reuse in renovation, restoration or rehabilitation of a historic structure; new / infill construction within a historic context; or a new construction ... Read More
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) Announces Laura Horelli Hannah-Hoch-Forderpreis 2011
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents Laura Horelli Hannah-Höch-Förderpreis 2011. Open 29 November 2011–20 January 2012 Laura Horelli, born in Helsinki in 1976, studied at the Kuvataideakatemia in Helsinki and with Thomas Bayrle at Frankfurt’s Städelschule. Living in Berlin since 2001, she has created a complex body of work within a few years, for which she will be the first recipient of the Hannah-Höch-Förderpreis awarded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, within the frame of the Women ... Read More
Miami Art Museum Names Emily Mello Director of Education & Public Programs
MIAMI, FL – In preparation for its move to a new, expanded facility, Miami Art Museum (MAM), a leading modern and contemporary art museum located in Miami, FL, has named Emily Mello director of education and public programs. In this role, Mello will oversee MAM’s diverse educational programming that today reaches nearly 35,000 people, and will plan for the greatly expanded educational offerings that will be available when the Museum’s new facility in downtown Miami’s Museum Park opens to the public in ... Read More
Dec. 3 Presentation a Mission to Planet Saturn at the Museum of Flight
NASA Solar System Ambassador to talk about Cassini-Huygens spacecraft and its seven years orbiting Saturn SEATTLE – A Dec. 3 lecture by NASA Solar System Ambassador Dr. Ron Hobbs looks at the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft’s seven years in Saturn’s orbit. The mission has produced revolutionary new information about the giant planet and its retinue of more than 60 moons, as well as incredible images of Saturn’s “miniature solar system.” Hobbs’ overview of this voyage of ... Read More
Biggs Museum Launch The New Biggs Capital Campaign
The Biggs Museum of American Art has launched the public phase of “The New Biggs” capital campaign, the final push for a $1.86 million fundraising initiative begun in 2010 to expand the museum and renovate the building at 406 Federal Street. With funding, the Museum plans to continue renovation during the first half of 2012. The first floor’s improvements and upgrades will continue through to the second and third floors. The galleries will be repainted, receive new flooring, LED track lighting and be given ... Read More
National Museum of the American Indian to Celebrate Menominee Nation Cultural Day on December 10
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrates Menominee Nation Cultural Day, with traditional song, dance, drumming and storytelling Saturday, Dec. 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For thousands of years, the Menominee tribe has made its home in the region now known as Wisconsin, as well as parts of Michigan and Illinois, where it once occupied an estimated 10 million acres. At the mouth of the Menominee River, the tribe’s five clans—Bear, Eagle, Wolf, Moose and Crane—were created. Of the ... Read More
The Frost Art Museum Presents Breakfast in the Park with Joel Perlman
Each year, in celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum hosts an official Art Basel sponsored event, Breakfast in the Park, drawing in hundreds of art enthusiast yearly. The 8th annual Breakfast in the Park features internally renowned artist Joel Perlman. Perlman has been creating complex sculptures out of steel, bronze, copper, and aluminum since the early 1970’s. He builds sculptural pieces by welding metal in stacks or perilous joints. There are no preliminary ... Read More
Smithsonian Latino Center Hosts an Evening of Bilingual Poetry and Music on November 30
The Smithsonian Latino Center continues to document Latino presence in Washington, D.C., with “Celebrando las Raíces, Creando Comunidad: Una Noche de Música y Poesía Bilingüe” (Celebrating Roots, Creating Community: An Evening of Bilingual Music and Poetry) Nov. 30 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the National Museum of the American Indian’s Rasmuson Theater. Admission is free, and a reception follows the presentation. Patricio Zamorano, Photo: David Alvarez The program features some of Washington’s finest ... Read More
Biggs Museum of American Art Presents Delaware By Hand. Masterworks 2011 Exhibition
The Biggs Museum of American Art presents Delaware By Hand. Masterworks 2011 an exhibition on view through February 26, 2012. Every two years, Delaware By Hand (DBH) hosts a membership-wide juried competition in order to select individual artists that are deemed masters of their craft. The 2011 artists were selected by Bryan Young; Curator of Easton, Maryland’s Academy Art Museum; and Sally Hansen, retired owner and director of The Glass Gallery in Bethesda, MD, antiques dealer and art collector. Each ... Read More
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