The whole family can enjoy an artistic holiday at the Getty, with stepped-up schedules of family-focused activities during the holidays. At the Getty Center, join Family Art Stops and get up close and personal with [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
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After eighteen months of analysis, conservation, and re-stabilization, the bronze statue of Apollo Saettante (Apollo as an Archer) from Pompeii will go on view at the Getty Villa from March 2 to September 12, 2011 [Read More]
The Baltimore Museum of Art presents more than 200 compelling and provocative images that showcase the work of more than 60 of the most remarkable photographers of our time in Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960. [Read More]
SEATTLE, – 1st Lt. Lynn “Buck” Compton and Tech. Sgt. Donald Malarkey, two of the original members of “Easy Company” (immortalized in the book and mini-series “Band of Brothers”) will join filmmaker Vance Day for [Read More]
One of the most significant and rare artifacts in toy history—the oldest known version of Monopoly, handmade by Charles Darrow around 1933—has been acquired by the National Museum of Play at the Strong in Rochester, [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced that it has returned to the Museo Diocesano Tridentino (Diocesan Museum of Trent, Italy) an embroidered panel, the Entombment of Saint Vigilius, from around 1390–1391. Entombment [Read More]
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum will keep its doors open and maintain operations despite financial challenges faced by the Asian Art Museum’s Foundation, which is the private fundraising arm of the Museum. “The Museum is [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art welcomes the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College’s Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (1625) by Hendrick ter Brugghen. The painting will be the focal point of Larger Than Life: [Read More]
Nin Brudermann presents Twelve O’Clock in London through 13 February 2011. Nin Brudermann’s ‘Twelve O’Clock in London’ illuminates an inter-governmental action occurring daily at the strike of UTC 00.00h and 12.00h, as all nations synchronously [Read More]
Fundació Joan Miró Presents Let Us Face the Future British Art 1945-1968 on view through 20 February 2011. The Fundació Joan Miró presents Let Us Face the Future, a journey through British art from the [Read More]
Historic cabinets from the Natural History Museum and, until very recently, home to some of the world’s greatest butterfly collections, are to be sold at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January 2011. [Read More]
Eight of the biggest names in art and music have pledged their support for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Antony Gormley, David Shrigley, Louise and Jane Wilson, Yoko Ono, Melvyn Bragg, Sting, Neil Tennant and [Read More]
The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Rare British Miniature, an Op Art Masterpiece and a Fifteenth-Century Engraving as Newest Acquisitions A rare portrait miniature by nineteenth-century British artist John Linnell, a boldly designed Op Art [Read More]
The University of Michigan Museum of Art presents Mai-Thu Perret: An Ideal for Living open December 18, 2010 through March 13, 2011 Contemporary Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret’s multidisciplinary practice fuses feminist politics with classic modernist [Read More]
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art will open to the public on December 30, 2010, in Doha, Qatar. Mathaf (pronounced Mat-haff, which means “museum” in Arabic) will present exhibitions and programs that explore modern Arab [Read More]
Taiwan Calling is the first large-scale exhibition in the region to present contemporary Taiwanese art. In recent years, the increasing number of programmes created by various European cultural institutions has shown a genuine and professional [Read More]
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs selected the Arab American National Museum to organize the United States’ representation of American artists at the 12th International Cairo Biennale in Egypt, December [Read More]
Winterlude visitors will now be able to participate in a raft of exciting activities at the National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada announced that it will add to the magic of the [Read More]