The Houston Museum of Natural Science presents Coming To America Through Galveston Island on view now through Feb 20, 2011. From 1845 to 1924, the Port of Galveston was a major gateway to American immigration. [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The High Desert Museum has chosen J. Martin Goebel, president of Sustainable Northwest of Portland, for the 27th annual Earle A. Chiles Award, recognizing his achievements in helping communities to restore and maintain ecological health, [Read More]
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents a solo exhibition by Cecilia Paredes, internationally renowned Peruvian artist. Having spent her early years in Peru, she continued her education in the UK and then in Italy. [Read More]
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth photographs on view, through March 13, 2011. These 60 photographs depict one-day celebrations of a festive and playful nature [Read More]
The New York State Museum presents the first exhibition of its kind “The Landscape of Memory: Prints by Frank C. Eckmair” open until September 18, 2011 in the Crossroads Gallery showcasing the works of one [Read More]
The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum held the First Live Mollusk Photography Contest to commemorate the Museum’s 15th Anniversary. “The strong first year response was very encouraging, The judges did not have an easy assignment,” reports Diane [Read More]
“Seasons,” a series of five exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art fon view through through March 4, 2012, will explore the vast history of seasonal imagery and associations in Chinese and Japanese art. [Read More]
The British Council announced an exhibition of British art from the last 30 years that will tour four cities in China (Chengdu, Xi’an, Hong Kong New Territories and Suzhou), at a time of increased interest [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents an exhibition, Dov Karmi, Architecht-Engineer: Public Domestica, on view now. Dov Karmi (1905–1962) immigrated to Eretz-Israel from Zhvanets, Ukraine, aged 16, studied architecture and engineering in Ghent, Belgium [Read More]
The New York State Museum will “Celebrate Public Health” with a series of interactive programs designed to educate, entertain and engage students during school break week December 27-30. Participants will have the opportunity to sketch, [Read More]
The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced the appointment of Paul Lang, an expert in neo-classical European Art, as its new Deputy Director and Chief Curator. An accomplished scholar who holds a PhD in Art [Read More]
“When China’s last emperor, Puyi, left the Forbidden City in 1924, the doors closed on a secluded compound of pavilions and gardens deep within the palace. Filled with exquisite objects personally commissioned by the Qianlong [Read More]
The Bruce Museum’s major winter exhibition features Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum, focusing on a number of key moments in the artist’s remarkable career. The exhibition, on view January 29, 2011 [Read More]
The Racine Art Museum presents Watercolor Wisconsin 2010 on view now through April 30, 2011. Encouraged to experiment and explore all the possibilities of painting on paper, the artists in the show have created works [Read More]
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century it was unheard of for a woman to collect minerals. However, the social status of women at that time didn’t stop one Lady Henrietta Antonia, Countess of [Read More]
The Bruce Museum presents Kashmir Shawls from it’s collection on view through February 27, 2011. Kashmir Shawls from the Bruce Museum Collection features a display of ten outstanding shawls selected from the Museum’s international textile [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on Monday, December 27 (Christmas/New Year’s Week), as part of the Museum’s popular “Holiday Mondays” program. Emily K. Rafferty, President of the Metropolitan Museum, [Read More]
The Pera Museum in İstanbul an presents exhibition of Works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Gelman Collection, on view 23 December 2010 – 20 Mach 2011. The Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera [Read More]