Roberson Museum and Science Center announces its annual Home for the Holidays display, November 26 – January 2. This year Roberson’s theme is “A Magical Time of Year.” Community members and local business organizations are [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The Nordic Heritage Museum Nordic announces Lights Film Festival on January 7 – 9, 2011. A partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), the festival will feature contemporary, award-winning feature-length and short films from [Read More]
The Nordic Heritage Museum invites everyone to begin the holiday season at this year’s YULEFEST on Saturday and Sunday, November 20 and 21, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. This popular Nordic Christmas celebration offers [Read More]
Smithsonian Unveils Hope Diamond in New Setting Designed by Harry Winston Inc. The Hope Diamond, the world’s most famous diamond, began another chapter in its already illustrious history. For the first time the diamond is [Read More]
The Whitney Museum of American Art announced that the 2012 Whitney Biennial will be co-curated by the Whitney’s Elisabeth Sussman and independent curator Jay Sanders. This will be the 76th in the Museum’s series of [Read More]
English Heritage’s proposals to transform the setting of Stonehenge and the visitor experience received a major boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund on 19 November 2010 with a grant of £10 million. Computer generated view [Read More]
During an update November 18, on the progress of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art at the monthly meeting of the Arkansas State Parks, Recreation and Travel Commission, Don Bacigalupi, Crystal Bridges’ executive director, announced [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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, [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]