The new Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC, will open its doors on Friday, September 10 with the Light Up the Arts Gala with Tony Bennett presented by Hanesbrands Inc., followed by Community Weekend presented by Reynolds American and Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company, featuring more than 100 arts and cultural experiences under one roof on September 11 and 12. The Light Up The Arts Gala with Tony Bennett Presented by Hanesbrands Inc. will be a festive party on September 10 from 6 p.m. to ... Read the full story

On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce On View at the Norton Museum of Art August 21 through November 21, 2010 West Palm Beach, FL – On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce examines why Chinese ceramics were such prized commodities, both at home and abroad. Examples of proto-porcelain appeared in China about 3,000 years ago and hard-paste porcelain began to be made around 1,800 years ago. This precious product was sometimes called “white ... Read the full story

The renovated Israel museum in Jerusalem has been officially opened in a grand opening. After almost three years of detailed design work with the museum architects, interior designers and curators, the museum now includes more than 100 video channels displayed on LCD screens and projectors, a few touch screens with interactive labeling system, digital signage system, ambient sound systems and more. AVD role in the project was divided into two Sections, in the first part AVD worked with the museum’s curators, ... Read the full story

Plastiki, the remarkable ocean-going yacht made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles, will be on view at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, for a full month after its arrival in Sydney today. The 18-metre catamaran will conclude an epic 8000 nautical mile voyage from San Francisco, California, when it arrives at the museum at around 12 noon. Plastiki will berth at the the museum’s new Display Pontoon, immediately in front of the museum building, and remain at this location for the ... Read the full story

Penrith and Eden Museum will reopen after refurbishment Penrith and Eden Museum is temporarily closed as work is underway to make the venue more accessible to disabled visitors but also increase space for temporary exhibitions and educational workshops. The refurbishment will see the installation of improved lighting as well as a projection system allowing the collections to be explored in new ways. The main access will still be through the TIC but the original door in the old school building will be automated ... Read the full story

This exhibition assembles around sixty paintings from some of the best private and public collections in Europe (Art museums in Lille, Nantes, Rennes, Oxford, Liège, and more). It offers a unique view of two great artistic movements of the 17th century: Flemish Baroque painting, of which Rubens is the chief protagonist, and the French Classical school led by Poussin and the influence they had on each other. The Jacquemart-André Museum has set out to write a new page in the history of art. Open 2010-09-24 to ... Read the full story

One of the most significant collections of Japanese art in North America will pay its first visit to the Bay Area for the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s major fall 2010 exhibition, Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. BAM/PFA will display over 110 works of art from the Clark Center of Hanford, California. The exhibition reflects the broad collecting interests of the Center’s founder Willard G. Clark. ... Read the full story

A little known American Indian archive will be unveiled at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) through October 24, 2010. Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century will be the first comprehensive exhibition of nineteenth century photography, southwestern artifacts and archival research from the George Hubbard Pepper Native American Archive at Tulane University. In collaboration with Tulane’s Middle American Research Institute (MARI) and Latin American Library ... Read the full story

PROVIDENCE, RI — As depicted by Linda Connor, even the humblest subjects are radiant. Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, on view through October 31, 2010, at The RISD Museum, reveals this internationally renowned artist’s 30-year aesthetic journey to diverse contemplative settings in the U.S., Egypt, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, Turkey, and Tibet. Connor studied photography at RISD and graduated with her BFA in 1969. Connor embraces a wide range of subject matter, often capturing sites of mystery and ... Read the full story

PROVIDENCE, RI — American sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art for more than 40 years. The exhibition Lynda Benglis, opening at The RISD Museum October 1, 2010, through Sunday, January 9, 2011, is composed of more than 50 works that represent the breadth of her remarkable output, dating from the 1960s through today. The RISD Museum is the first of only two North American venues for this major survey show. Lynda Benglis NIGHT SHERBET A, 1968 Pigmented ... Read the full story

Visit the special exhibition “Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor” at the RISD Museum. Explore how distant lands appear familiar and the familiar becomes unknown in photographs that capture timeless places, sacred sites, and the beauty of light. After visiting the exhibition, make a sun print in the Family Open Studio that represents something sacred to you and enjoy sketching in the exhibition. Admission is free all day. Family Open studio is from 1pm-4pm, Family See + Sketch at 2:30pm. Call ... Read the full story

Sydney, Australia: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) announces the appointment of independent curator, art critic and lecturer Dr. Maura Reilly as the MCA’s new Head of Education. With more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Reilly has built an impressive career in art education and curatorship. The role is a new position, reflecting the Museum’s increased commitment to education as part of its $50 million redevelopment, which starts construction next month. The redevelopment project will create a ... Read the full story

The world’s largest and smelliest plant, nicknamed, Lois the corpse flower, has come into bloom at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, attracting thousands of visitors a day. The flower, nicknamed Lois after a staffer’s mother, has been in the museum for six years, after the museum paid 75 dollars for a tuber from a U.S. nursery, said Nancy Greig, director of Cockrell Butterfly Center of the Museum. No one knows what triggers a corpse flower to bloom and no one knows when it will bloom in its ... Read the full story

Poole Museum have unveiled four important artworks from Bournemouth and Poole College’s collection of modern art. The works on show are two bronze sculptures, Henry Moore’s “Mother and Child with Apple” and “Kathleen”, by Jacob Epstein, a painting titled “Spring Landscape with a Pond and a House” by Ivon Hitchens and “Jarman’s Door”, a fascinating Poole-associated object decorated by the film-maker and artist Derek Jarman. They were formerly housed at Kube which closed in January. After its ... Read the full story

Montreal, – From September 24, 2010, to January 2, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be presenting ROUGE CABARET: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, the first North American exhibition devoted to Otto Dix (1891-1969), one of the twentieth century’s most important German painters. A keen observer of the world, which he viewed as “terrifying and beautiful,” Otto Dix leaves no one indifferent. Some 220 works, including about forty rare and fragile paintings, many of them painted in ... Read the full story