Reading Museum presents the exhibition Celebrity, open through 09 Jan 2011. Up close and personal – a touring exhibition of belongings from the world of showbiz including Marilyn Monroe’s dress, Fred Astaire’s shoes, Cher’s necklace, [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 1, 2010
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Reading Museum presents Uncertain Moments – Uncomfortable Truths, open 05 Feb 2011 To: 24 Apr 2011. Some pictures can be understood immediately but some become increasingly puzzling the more you look at them. The figurative [Read More]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Where there’s silver, there’s tarnish. While getting the tarnish off your flatware might be an occasional inconvenience, to museum curators and conservators, it’s a threat to irreplaceable works of art. To [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host a variety of free public programs to celebrate American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month in November, including dance, theatrical performances, art demonstrations, films and [Read More]
The Mobile Museum of Art presents American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, on view through January 2, 2011, features 39 19th and 20th century American paintings, drawn from the permanent collection of The [Read More]
American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum includes more than forty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper dating from 1871 to the present. American Still Life, the third in a series of exhibitions [Read More]
The exhibition “René Burri – Photographs” at KUNST HAUS WIEN, open 18th of November 2010 – 20th of February 2011, is a retrospective of the works of one of the most important photographers of our [Read More]
Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is to present Who Can Dance? focusing on West and Central African art from the museum’s collection to explore the ways that gender ideals are expressed in traditional African [Read More]
The Santa Cruz Natural History Museum presents Bones: An Inside Look at Nature, open through through February 26, 2011. The exhibition includes a display of skulls, teeth, and bones from fishes, reptiles, mammals, and birds. [Read More]
Albertosaurus and Edmontosaurus discovered in province’s capital Edmonton… A sharp eyed City of Edmonton worker halted the construction of a sewage tunnel, when he spotted what he thought might be a dinosaur bone. The city [Read More]
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, on view through January 16, 2011. Over the past four decades photographer Robert Adams has come to be widely [Read More]
The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition in London for over 40 years to celebrate the achievement of the Glasgow Boys, the loosely knit group of young painters who created a stir [Read More]
The Powerhouse Museum’s permanent exhibition EcoLogic: creating a sustainable future will reopen on 30 October 2010 with a new, in-depth focus on climate change. With major scientific, industrial and social developments over the last decade, [Read More]
The first exhibition to explore the rich dialogue between Victorian-era British photography and Pre-Raphaelite painting showcases how these parallel artistic phenomena informed and inspired one another. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875 includes [Read More]
The LBJ Museum of San Marcos presents a new exhibit LBJ Country: Through the Camera Lens of Norman Dietel that focuses on the photography of long-time publisher and managing editor of the Fredericksburg Radio Post. [Read More]