Warner Bros. Entertainment has made a $5 million donation to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to establish a new theater to present the history of American film. The gift will enable the museum [Read More]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
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This outstanding exhibition is Gabriel Orozco’s first at the Centre Pompidou, and the first opportunity to see his work in Paris since his exhibition “Clinton is Innocent” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville [Read More]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has acquired two stellar examples of Pop art by the artists who defined and shaped the movement. Dolly Parton (1985), painted late in Andy Warhol’s career, expressed his life-long [Read More]
The retail experience at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will be shaped by local hardwoods, local craftsmen and an award-winning local architect, Marlon Blackwell. Blackwell’s design proposal for the Museum Store interior centers on [Read More]
MIAMI – Following years of planning and widespread anticipation surrounding the transformation of Miami’s Bicentennial Park into a new Museum Park, work crews have begun an environmental remediation process that will prepare eight acres of [Read More]
The British Library has acquired a significant collection of letters sent by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes’ sister Announced at the sixth International Ted Hughes Conference at Pembroke College, Cambridge, [Read More]
SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has joined with the Salem Athenaeum to display the original Massachusetts Bay Charter. The Charter that brought Massachusetts into being will be on view at PEM from [Read More]
As part of downtown Wenatchee’s Taste of the Harvest Festival, the Wenatchee Valley Museum will again host a Fruit Label Swap Meet on Saturday, September 18. All are welcome to buy, sell, trade or just [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition that examines the kitchen and its continual redesign as a barometer of changing ideologies and technologies, and explores the [Read More]
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents a new exhibition by Tel Aviv-born, Los Angeles -based artist Elad Lassry. Featuring recent and new works, this exhibition will be the artist’s first major museum monograph in [Read More]
Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announce that The Turner Prize will be presented at BALTIC in 2011. In 2007 the Prize was staged at Tate Liverpool as a curtain-raiser to Liverpool being European [Read More]
The Boise Art Museum will present Stephen Knapp: Light Paintings, October 9, 2010 – April 17, 2011. Deriving inspiration from his studies of light, color, dimension, space and perception, artist Stephen Knapp will create an [Read More]
Alfred Stieglitz New York at the Seaport Museum features 39 vintage photographs borrowed from major art museums and private collections throughout the United States. Exhibition open through January 10 2010. It is the first time [Read More]
The Boise Art Museum will present the exhibition CRITICAL MESSAGES: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment, open December 18, 2010 – April 10, 2011. The exhibition focuses on how a group of Northwest artists are [Read More]
This one-man show of Van I-pong (1917-1994), open through December 2010, presents works from two major periods of his life, first in Hong Kong from 1949 till 1984 and second in Canada from 1984 till [Read More]
The Journey Museum’s Family Fun Day on Sunday, September 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. will be “Pannin’ for Gold.” The event will feature the showing of a film about the history of the gold [Read More]
The history of Australia’s first lighthouse, Macquarie Tower of Vaucluse, is revealed in a new exhibition now showing at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Open through 7 November 2010. Macquarie’s Light chronicles the story of [Read More]
The first Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival will be held Nov. 13-18 in Los Angeles, with Clint Eastwood to receive the top honor, the museum announced ton Tuesday. Flms from around the world that [Read More]