The spring 2011 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, it was announced by the Museum today. The exhibition, on view from May 4 [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would undertake a comprehensive, multi-year effort to redesign and rebuild the four-block-long outdoor plaza that fronts its landmark Fifth Avenue façade. The project will feature as one [Read More]
Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture, on view November 10, 2010 through May 30, 2011, highlights the great variety of important acquisitions made by the Department of Architecture and Design since 2005, juxtaposing, in several [Read More]
Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum’s scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas [Read More]
The Lyme Regis Museum presents Mary Anning and the Men of Science, on view now through spring 2011. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was a largely self-educated, working class woman from Lyme Regis who became the greatest [Read More]
On November 10, 1975, the 729-foot steamer Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in an infamous Lake Superior storm near Whitefish Point, Michigan with her entire crew of 29 men. The Fitzgerald’s story has become a popular [Read More]
Thanks to an innovative new partnership between the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto residents and visitors can now view some of the most significant works from [Read More]
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 has been won by David Chancellor, 49, for his portrait, Huntress with Buck, of 14 year old Josie Slaughter from Alabama on her first hunting trip to South [Read More]
Early 19th century settlers in Louisville quenched their thirst at their own risk. In 1860, Louisville Water Company (LWC) was founded and helped to virtually wipe out cases of typhoid and cholera caused by drinking [Read More]
Guercino’s King David (1651) will come to the National Gallery to join Guercino’s The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto (1651) on display from November 5 2010 until November 21 2010. This will be the first [Read More]
The New York City Police Museum has opened a permanent multi media exhibit that chronicles the extraordinary role the NYPD played in response to September 11, 2001. Through exclusive on-camera interviews, striking photographs, and numerous [Read More]
Alec Soth to Sign Copies of his Exhibition Catalogue From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America November 11 in the Walker Shop In conjunction with Alec Soth’s first major U.S. survey exhibition, currently on view [Read More]
California Center for the Arts Artist in Residence Week, November 9 – 14, 2010, free with Museum admission. Watch firsthand as artists respond to the changes made by Museum patrons during Action/Reaction. All four artists [Read More]
The California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum presents Patricia Patterson : Here and There (February 12–July 4, 2011), a landmark retrospective exhibition, filling the entire 9,000 square feet of Center Museum. The exhibition will [Read More]
The archive of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of “Infinite Jest” (1996), “The Broom of the System” (1987), “Girl with Curious Hair” (1989) and numerous collections of stories and essays, is now open at the [Read More]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer and actor Spalding Gray (1941-2004). Spanning more than 40 years, the archive [Read More]
Mudam Luxembourg presents six exhibitions illustrating the diversity of approaches and media that go to make up contemporary art. Attila Csörgö leads us into a universe of scientific exploration, providing a comprehensive overview of his [Read More]
The first-ever museum exhibition on perfume as an art form will premiere at the Museum of Arts and Design in November 2011. Organized by MAD and curated by Chandler Burr, the scent critic for The [Read More]