Menil Director Josef Helfenstein has announced the 2011 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement: Adam Szymczyk, director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel. Established in 2001 in honor of Menil Founding Director [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
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Museion is managed by the Foundation Museion, established by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and the Museion Association. The mission of the Foundation Museion is to collect, conserve, research, present and mediate contemporary art. The [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Ontario is bringing the magic, whimsy and wonder of Marc Chagall to Toronto next fall with a major exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from [Read More]
The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) has been awarded Accreditation status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) for its Museum of the Post Office in the Community at Blists Hill Victorian Town, [Read More]
The Columbus Museum of Art presents The Bible Illuminated, an exhibition based on seminal comic artist R. Crumb’s adaptation of the Book of Genesis. On view through JANUARY 16, 2011. Crumb spent the last five [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Steve Wolfe on Paper, the first solo museum exhibition of artist Steve Wolfe. For the last twenty years, Wolfe has created objects and drawings of astounding [Read More]
The Morgan Library & Museum announced that on December 20, 2010, it will make digital versions of more than forty celebrated music manuscripts from its extraordinary permanent collection available on its Web site for the [Read More]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an exhibition that explores one of the best-known English poems written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1835). On view now through 27 February 2011. Drawn from the British Library’s [Read More]
The Museum of Art and History presents Trains of Santa Cruz on view December 18, 2010-March 13, 2011 in the Art Forum Gallery. Continuing the series, “Things That Roll,” the Museum of Art and History [Read More]
The Gunn Historical Museum will host a New Year Tea Party on Sunday, January 2 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Ring in the New Year with an old-fashion Victorian tea party at the Museum. Visitors [Read More]
As part of its 2010–2011 season, the Louvre pays tribute to the 18th century with a special series of four exhibitions. The first of these, Paper Museums: Antiquity in Books, 1600–1800, opens in September, followed [Read More]
Three generations of Wyeth paintings will be on view beginning December 19, in recognition of a generous bequest to Philbrook from the Marylouise Cowan Trust. Included in this gift are fifteen original Wyeth paintings that [Read More]
Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, The Charleston Museum presents Threads of War: Clothing and Textiles of the Civil War. On view now through September 5, 2011. This original exhibition offers a glimpse into [Read More]
Exhibition Presents 205 Images from Artist´s First Three Groundbreaking Books, Some as Life-size Prints The first large-scale U.S. exhibition of Helmut Newton´s work premieres at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Helmut Newton: White Women [Read More]
The Tellus Science Museum will be open from 12:00 AM until 5:30 AM on 12.1.2010 for a special star party to observe the lunar eclipse. The observatory will be open, and several other telescopes located [Read More]
The 32nd annual Christmas Tree Festival opened December 1st and runs through the month of December. This year they’re almost 60 trees and wreaths decorated by Monroe County classrooms, clubs, and organizations, including Elementary schools, [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum is to present Images and the State: Graphics In China in the 1960s and 70s open 8th March 2011 to 3rd July 2011. Visual imagery in China during the Cultural Revolution was [Read More]
The Frick Collection announces Picasso Drawings 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition on view at The Frick Collection, New York October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012 and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. February 5, 2012, [Read More]