The Air Force announced Dec. 2, 2010, the assignment of Senior Executive Service member and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John “Jack” L. Hudson as Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
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Vancouver Art Gallery presents Offsite: Heather and Ivan Morison open through May 1, 2011. Offsite is the Vancouver Art Gallery’s outdoor exhibition space in the heart of urban Vancouver that offers a rotating program of [Read More]
The California Automobile Museum has celebrated Its First-Ever Founders Day with a special event honoring its founders and sharing with the public a bit of Sacramento history. “There was a great fear from those of [Read More]
Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, today announced the appointment of Brett Abbott as the Museum’s new curator of photography. Abbott currently serves as associate [Read More]
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts presents The Magnificent Seven: Paulina Olowska. Paulina Olowska is the Wattis Institute’s fall 2010 Capp Street Project artist in residence and one of the seven featured artists in the [Read More]
The Chillida-Leku Museum has requested a temporary labor force adjustment plan and has agreed to close the museum starting on January 1, 2011. This decision is attributed to the recurring deficit that, along with practically [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass, in America’s “Crystal City,” celebrates the holiday season with a glass wonderland of giant glittering ornament trees, hands-on holiday-themed glassmaking and special events. Through January 2, 2011, visitors to the [Read More]
From winter 2010 the Museum will begin the redevelopment of its Egyptian galleries housed in Charles Cockerell’s Grade -1 listed Beaumont Street Building. Leading the project will be the award-winning practice Rick Mather Architects, who [Read More]
The newest addition to the National Naval Aviation Museum, Hangar Bay One, adds 55,000 square feet of exhibit space to a facility that is already one of the largest of its kind in the world. [Read More]
The Computer History Museum (CHM), the world’s leading institution exploring the history of computing and its ongoing impact on society, today announced the appointment of two new trustees to its Board of Directors: Raymie Stata, [Read More]
“Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing” is in the final stages of completion and will open to the public on January 13, 2011. The Museum will feature special opening hours from January 13 to [Read More]
The Museum of Discovery was awarded a grant of $9.2 million by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation! The grant will enable the Museum to construct a street-level entrance on President Clinton Avenue and to redesign [Read More]
Fort Nelson is currently undergoing a £3.5M development of its galleries and fortifications, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The newly developed site is scheduled for completion in 2011. Existing galleries and fortifications will remain [Read More]
Joan Rosenbaum, who has led The Jewish Museum since 1981, creating its innovative identity as a museum of art and culture and doubling the size of its home at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, has [Read More]
New Herzog & de Meuron‐designed museum will open to the public in 2013 Following years of planning and anticipation, Miami Art Museum has broken ground for its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Downtown [Read More]
The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) presents New Gravity / Interesting Thing on view 7 December 2010 – 23 January 2011. The exhibition New Gravity/Interesting Thing includes video and performance works that address, in [Read More]
This autumn Tate Britain embarks on a process which takes the gallery into the first phase of a major building project, through a period of transition and into a changed approach to showing the collections [Read More]
A new display at the National Portrait Gallery marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Camden Town group of artists. Focusing on the leading members of the group which flourished around 1911-1912, the [Read More]