The National Galleries of Scotland and Tate are delighted to announce that the internationally renowned American artist, Robert Therrien has very generously given two major sculptures to the ARTIST ROOMS collection. These two seminal pieces, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
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A selection of highlights from the remarkable art collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo will be on display at the Mauritshuis in The Hague this autumn. The exhibition Made in Holland: Old [Read More]
A new traveling exhibition, “Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World,” will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Aug. 14. The exhibition, a collaborative effort between the American Society of [Read More]
At the end of 2008, the Academy Art Museum was selected to receive fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel as part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy [Read More]
On view September 3 – December 5, 2010, this exhibition will feature recent work by contemporary artist Stacy Lynn Waddell in her first solo museum exhibition. Waddell’s work is a fascinating blend of painting, drawing, [Read More]
The Racine Art Museum commissioned internationally recognized glass artist Matt Eskuche to create a new exhibition for its Windows on Fifth Gallery. Matt Eskuche: Agristocracy uses the colour, line, form, and shear abundance of food [Read More]
To celebrate the Design Museum’s current exhibition Urban Africa – David Adjaye’s Photographic Journey, the Design Museum and The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust launch a photography competition for budding snappers under 25 to capture something [Read More]
DOYLESTOWN, PA – For twelve million people, Ellis Island was the doorway to a new life, with the hopes and dreams of several generations of immigrants beginning and sometimes ending there. Understandably, this American landmark [Read More]
Word, Shout, Song documents the historical journey made by people from Africa, their language, and their music, to the Americas. Exhibition open through March 27, 2010. Through words, music, and story, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered [Read More]
European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century is the first encompassing, critical assessment of contemporary Western European design from 1985 to 2005. The exhibition, open October 9, 2010–January 9, 2011, will present 250 seminal [Read More]
Allentown, Pa. – “Myths, Religion & Ritual: Indian Art from the Koblenzer Collection” is now open at the Allentown Art Museum. The exhibition, which includes major three-dimensional works from the sixth to early 20th centuries, [Read More]
The Tampa Museum of Art is pleased to present the solo exhibition of sculpture by Tampa-based artist Dominique Labauvie and the premier of his site-specific work, Suspended Skylines, August 14, 2010, through January 16, 2011, [Read More]
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the world premiere of El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, a career retrospective of Ghanaian visual artist El Anatsui. Presented by the Institute for Contemporary [Read More]
This exhibition, open through september 26 2010, celebrates Albert Paley’s diverse and significant body of work, his virtuosity as a monumental sculptor, and the completion and dedication of Odyssey, Paley’s gateway into Iowa on Interstate [Read More]
On 25th January 1759, Scotland’s best-loved poet, Robert Burns, was born amidst a blast of icy wind in a humble cottage in Alloway. The National Trust for Scotland is proud to be at the heart [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced that it will present Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, opening November 7, 2010. Organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the exhibition features [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago presents an exhibition of work by Carrie Gundersdorf, open through August 7-29, 2010. With an unyielding interest in the formal explorations and history of abstraction, Carrie Gundersdorf’s drawings [Read More]
The Yellowstone Art Museum presents Polar: Photographs from the Ice Antarctica to Greenland- Patrick Smith open October 7, 2010, through January 9, 2011. Billings-based artist Pat Smith began his lifelong relationship with the versatile medium [Read More]