Cheekwood presents Temporary Contemporary Mel Ziegler: Smell the Flowers, on view through February 20 2011. Mel Ziegler’s works highlight systems or forms that are in plain sight, but never really seen. His installations have resulted […]
Daily Archives: November 19, 2010
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The Rijksmuseum will celebrate Christmas 2010 with two exceptional acquisitions that highlight the birth of Christ. It recently acquired an extremely rare silver ‘prayer nut’, containing miniature carvings only millimetres in size and depicting the […]
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum presents A Little House Christmas: An Exhibit, open November 20 – January 2, 2011. Twenty trees decorated in the traditions of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. The […]
Minneapolis civic leaders had the foresight 125 years ago to create the parks system we enjoy today, so we too must plan for future generations. Climate change, limited natural resources, economic instability, and changing demographics […]
Smithsonian American Art Museum presents Alexis Rockman A Fable for Tomorrow. Open November 19, 2010 – May 8, 2011 Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow is the first major survey of the artist’s work with […]
Exceptional Significance of the Fossil Ecosystem Becoming Increasingly Apparent After a month of frenetic activity, Denver Museum of Nature & Science scientists and volunteers have finished their initial excavation of the Ice Age fossil site […]
The Melton Carnegie Museum re-opened on Saturday 13th November folowing a major building project which has created a new stae-of-the-art gallery, study area and community space for museum acrtivities, schools, volunteers and community groups. The […]
The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced that Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a scholar of African-American history from Indiana University, has been selected as the next Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black […]
It’s Wall-to-Wall Walker on Saturday, December 4, 10 am-8 pm, the Walker Art Center’s day-into-night celebration with extended hours of all things Walker: film, performance, and an array of artworks from the exhibitions Event Horizon, […]
Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914 will focus on Pablo Picasso’s cardboard and sheet-metal Guitar sculptures, and the incandescent period of material and structural innovation these sculptures bracket in the artist’s long career. The exhibition will be on […]
The “Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery” opens to the public Nov. 19 at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, replacing the original “Pioneers” gallery that opened in 1976. Updated with new research, it […]