Articles in Museum News
JOHN CHEERE SCULPTURES FROM QUELUZ PALACE, LISBON, ON SHOW AT TATE BRITAIN
Following 250 years in Portugal, two magnificent but damaged lead sculptures by English artist John Cheere (1709-87) were this year temporarily returned to Britain for restoration by World Monuments Fund, and are now displayed in pristine condition at Tate Britain. Dido and Aeneas and The Marriage of Bacchus were created by Cheere in London during the 1750s as part of a commission for a large group of about 90 sculptures which were shipped to Lisbon to ornament Dom Pedro III of Portugal’s ... Read More
Aargauer Kunsthaus opens LIGHT SENSITIVE. Photo Art from the Collection
Aargauer Kunsthaus opens LIGHT SENSITIVE. Photo Art from the Collection, an exhibition on view 12 May 2012 – 12 Aug 2012, presenting works from the rich photography holdings of the Aargauer Kunsthaus. In addition, it shows photographs of urban spaces by Andreas Tschersich and works by Bianca Dugaro.Nicolas Faure Saas-Fee (VS), Juli, 1989 Colour photograph on aluminium 63 x 80 cm Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau Light Sensitive is a presentation of works from the collection of the Aargauer ... Read More
Huntsville Museum announces The Red Clay Survey with 80 Works by 61 Artists Representing 10 Southern States
The Huntsville Museum of Art presents The Red Clay Survey: 2012 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art, which opens to the public Sunday, May 20. The Red Clay Survey is a recurring juried exhibition open to established and emerging artists in 11 Southern states. In its eleventh presentation, the exhibit will be on view through September 16, 2012. The artists juried into The Red Clay Survey are selected through a comprehensive two-fold process, involving an initial stage of jurying by image ... Read More
Haus der Kulturen der Welt announces Berlin Documentary Forum 2
Haus der Kulturen der Welt presents Berlin Documentary Forum 2 on 31 May–3 June 2012. New documentary practices are cross-disciplinary, dialectical, and above all performative, regarding documentary as the staging of particular relationships between documents, authors, and spectators. The second Berlin Documentary Forum sets out to present these new understandings of documentary in a program specially devised by international artists, filmmakers, cultural historians, and theorists. A group ... Read More
Tate announce Magic Tate Ball Smartphone app
‘Magic Tate Ball’ is a new location-based mobile app from Tate, inspired by the iconic Magic 8 Ball, where players shake the ball in search of an answer to one of life’s mysteries. The difference is, when you shake your phone, this clever app presents you with an artwork that is linked to your surroundings. Using date, time-of-day, geographical location, live weather data and ambient noise levels the app will trawl through a selection of artworks from Tate’s Collection for the best ... Read More
Guggenheim Bilbao presents David Hockney. A Bigger Picture
Guggenheim Bilbao presents David Hockney. A Bigger Picture, an exhibition on view May 15–September 30, 2012.David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven). Oil on 32 canvases. 365.8 x 975.4 cm (each 91.4 x 121.9 cm); one of a 52-part work. Courtesy of the artist. Copyright David Hockney. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, David Hockney: ... Read More
Christian Dior Museum opens Stars in Dior From the screen to the streets
The Christian Dior Museum in Granville opens Stars in Dior From the screen to the streets, an exhibition on view from the 12th of May to the 23rd of September, 2012. The Christian Dior Museum will pay homage to the silver screen in 2012. For one summer only, the salons of Villa “Les Rhumbs” will exhibit the Dior fashions worn by movie stars on the screen and in the streets Before 1947: Christian Dior, costume designer Even before 1947 and the creation of the couture house bearing his ... Read More
Estonian Maritime Museum Seaplane Harbor Opens
The Estonian Maritime Museum has opened it’s Seaplane Harbor and new museum in Tallinn. The Seaport Harbor exhibition presents nearly two hundred large exhibits starting with the submarine Lembit. Estonian Maritime Museum (founded 1935) is located in the cannon tower, Paks Margareeta (Fat Margaret), forming a part of medieval defence system. The exposition on the history of Estonian maritime – ship- and boat building, ports, navigational aids on the ships, lighthouses – is ... Read More
Getty Research Institute Announces Getty Research Portal Gateway to the World’s Art Libraries
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) will launch the Getty Research Portal, on May 31, 2012, a new resource that will provide universal access to digitized texts in the field of art and architectural history. The Getty Research Portal is a free online search gateway that aggregates descriptive metadata of digitized art history texts, with links to fully digitized copies that are free to download. Art historians, curators, students, or anyone who is culturally curious can unearth these valuable ... Read More
British Museum announces The horse. from Arabia to Royal Ascot
The British Museum presents The horse. from Arabia to Royal Ascot. A Diamond Jubilee Celebration on view 24 May – 30 September 2012. The history of the horse is the history of civilisation itself. The horse has had a revolutionary impact on ancient civilisations and this major exhibition explores the influence of horses in Middle Eastern history, from their domestication around 3,500 BC to the present day. Britain’s long equestrian tradition is examined from the introduction of the ... Read More
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