National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea announce official opening of Nuclear Power Plant Art Project in Yeonggwang and its first commissioned site-specific installation entitled, Earth – Water – Fire – Air by Kimsooja. This project [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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AUSTIN, Texas – More than 600 individuals from 44 states and 13 countries have contributed to the effort to raise $30,000 to preserve five original costumes from “Gone With The Wind” (1939). The costumes are [Read More]
AUSTIN, Texas – The Visual Arts Center in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin has announced its inaugural fall season, exhibitions that include works by emerging artists [Read More]
As autumn approaches the nation’s capital and the school year begins, the National Gallery of Art offers a number of activities and programs for young visitors. The Gallery’s Film Program for Children and Teens promises [Read More]
Cai will create Odyssey in Houston in October, with the public invited to observe; work will be permanently installed in the new Arts of China Gallery, opening October 17 Commission is the first in a [Read More]
Fall 2010 • German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 Drawing from Nature: Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, and Slevogt September 12—December 5, 2010 • Cai Guo-Qiang Commission for the Ting Tsung and Wei [Read More]
Presented in association with Brisbane Festival 2010, ‘Douglas Kirkland: A Life in Pictures’ is the first major retrospective of Kirkland’s celebrated photography in Australia. Open 11 September – 24 October 2010. In a career spanning [Read More]
Chicago – The International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS) in Chicago announces an innovative new version of OUR BODY: THE UNIVERSE WITHIN, the renowned exhibition of actual human bodies. Unlike any prior anatomical exhibition, OUR [Read More]
Back by popular demand, Art by Choice opens at the Mississippi Museum of Art Saturday, August 14, and runs through Sunday, September 12, 2010. Presented in collaboration with the Museum’s New Collectors Club, Art by [Read More]
Primo will provide Finland’s libraries, museums, research institutes and archives with a unified gateway to a wealth of scholarly and cultural resources Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, [Read More]
“New at the Rijksmuseum: Gerrit T. Rietveld • Jan J. Schoonhoven”, on display in the Acquisitions Hall through 4 October 2010. The Rijksmuseum has acquired two masterpieces for its collection of 20th-century art and history: [Read More]
Washington, DC – The National Gallery of Art presents its 69th season of the longest-running free concert series in the nation’s capital from September 26, 2010, through June 26, 2011. Twenty-six of the 42 concerts [Read More]
Washington, DC – One of the finest, most selective private collections of works by the first wave of American modernists will premiere at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, open through January 2, 2011. [Read More]
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2010–2011. They include Joseph J. Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art, as Samuel [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) is hosting one of the nation’s largest gatherings of small boats and unique watercraft at the 28th Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, October 2. [Read More]
The Putnam County Museum, Greencastle, Indiana, has announced the publication and release of its second book, Peeler Pottery; A Retrospective, by Marj Peeler, et al. The 342 page book tells the story of Richard and [Read More]
Deltron, Inc. announce that Dr. Jeffrey Bozanic, Vice President of Deltron’s Blu Vu division, has completed a diving expedition for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and collected what appears to be a new [Read More]
One of the ocean’s most formidable marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is debunked [Read More]