The State Museum’s annual ghost story festival is back for its tenth year and promises to be more entertaining than ever! Haunted Museum takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 23. The […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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An exhibit which pays homage to Tennesseans whose lives and legacies have contributed to the rich and storied history of the Volunteer State has opened at the State Museum. Tennesseans: A People’s Legacy, tells Tennessee’s […]
The Studebaker National Museum will host receptions for two new exhibitions. From Pedal Cars to Muscle Cars, Indiana-built cars to British-built cars, and from Harleys to hybrids, the Studebaker National Museum presents a vast array […]
Michelangelo’s first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, will be on view among the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum. The Kimbell Art Museum acquired the painting in May 2009. It will be […]
Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe at the turn of the 20th century, the American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) created innovative works that combined elements of Arts […]
This exhibit at The Bellevue Arts Museum, open through February 6, 2011, is a visual journey through the never-ending forces of creativity and imagination. It features large-scale sculpture that cross-fertilizes flora, fauna and art. Mixing […]
The Shenyang Railway Museum has re-opened in northeast China. The museum covers an area of 80,000 square meters, with 800 locomotives, passenger trains and electrical equipment, including 28 steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and electric locomotives […]
An exhibition heralded by the Guardian as “the most important exhibition of [Henry] Moore’s work for a generation” is coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario this fall. The Shape of Anxiety: Henry Moore in […]
Tthe Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) at the University of Georgia (UGA) has won an unprecedented nine awards at the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) annual meeting in Baton Rouge, La. Among the honors bestowed upon […]
Thanks to a generous gift from the collection of the former medieval historian, writer, lecturer and Order of Canada recipient Dr. Margaret Wade Labarge (1916-2009), the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired four prints […]
Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met is an exhibition of two new sculptural installations created specifically for the Metropolitan by Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist (born in 1967), who lives and works in New York City and […]
The Katonah Museum of Art (www.katonahmuseum.org) has received a $10,000 grant from the Westchester Community Foundation to support Smart Girls at the Katonah Museum of Art, an innovative program designed to improve the self-esteem, and […]
The Michigan Museum of Art is to present UMMA Projects: Simon Dybbroe Møller, on view November 6, 2010 to February 13, 2011. Things are not always as they seem in the work of Simon Dybbroe […]
The Michigan Museum of Art presents On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler, on view through November 28, 2010. UMMA’s rare and important collection of works on paper by James McNeill […]
The Walters Art Museum presents German Drawings From The Walters Collection, open November 20, 2010–February 13, 2011. The Walters family, William, Ellen and their children, Henry and Jennie, spent the years from 1861 to 1865 […]
The Walters Art Museum presents Art History 101 Classes: Immerse yourself in 55 centuries of art! This course will cover civilizations from ancient Egypt and Greece to artists like Manet and Monet and everything in […]
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum opened on October 16 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. UBC’s rich biological collections are housed in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, a new public museum dedicated to enhancing the […]
The Natural History Museum In Washington has opened The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef an exhibition by the Institute For Figuring and Companions, on view through April 24, 2011. A sea of vibrant colors and fantastic […]