The Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, National Fossil Day There was a ribbon cutting ceremony in the morning and 250 people attend the event. Paleontologists, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The Asheville Arts Museum is to presents Present The Olmsted Project: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, open Friday, December 10, 2010 – Sunday, April 24, 2011. Lee Friedlander (1934- ) is one of this country’s preeminent [Read More]
The Asheville Arts Museum is showing Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum. As part of the Asheville Art Museum’s 60th anniversary celebrations, the Museum is presenting this installation of [Read More]
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art presents Fletcher Benton : The Artist’s Studio and Living Walls: A Collaborative Installation, open Saturday, November 20, 2010 – Sunday, February 6, 2011. Fletcher Benton: The Artist’s Studio explores [Read More]
Following the major exhibition “Holy Russia: Russian Art from the Beginnings to Peter the Great” in spring 2010, the Louvre hosts a second event in honor of the Year of Russia in France. Open October [Read More]
The Louvre presents Paper Museums The Antiquity in Books, 1600–1800, open through 01-03-2011. ntiquarians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often compiled their knowledge in imposing figurative books of antiquities, like “paper museums” that displayed, [Read More]
A grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has allowed the National Maritime Museum (NMM) to make part of its considerable collection of prints and drawings available online for the first time. The NMM’s collections [Read More]
Enjoy a magical day out this Halloween as the Queen’s House opens its doors to all budding wizards and witches. Come along to conjure up some spooky spells and create magic potions. Watch out for [Read More]
A new era began at the Asheville Art Museum on December 13, 1995, when Pamela Myers started her tenure as Executive Director. With prior experience at institutions including the North Carolina Museum of Art, The [Read More]
The Yale Center for British Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (CCA), have co-produced the first ever exhibition of the archive of British architect, Yale School of Architecture professor, and Pritzker Prize laureate [Read More]
The Kunsthaus Zürich revives the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso had organized a [Read More]
Abstract Expressionist New York Celebrates the Achievements of a Generation That Catapulted New York City to the Center of the International Art World Sixty Years Ago Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of [Read More]
On November 19 & 20 Noel Barrett will auction will be one of the most important sales of 2010. It will feature toys from the Tom Gray Collection along with those of the Old Salem [Read More]
Christophe Cherix has been appointed The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, it was announced today by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry. In this role, [Read More]
Carnegie Science Center is inviting visitors to get in a spooky mood with its Laser Family Halloween show, which is set to open Monday, Oct. 18. Laser Family Halloween features a variety of festive hit [Read More]
The Katonah Museum of Art (www.katonahmuseum.org) welcomes curator Sarah Tanguy along with artists Doug Beube, Josh Dorman, and Paula Scher for The Place We’re In, a revealing discussion on the allure of cartography in contemporary [Read More]
Chicano Photographer, an exhibition by Riverside, California documentary photographer Jesús Manuel Mena Garza opens at the San Bernardino County Museum Schuilling Gallery on March 19, 2011. The show continues to November 6. You are invited [Read More]
Dorset’s Teddy Bear Museum auctioned off a unique collection of Steiff Teddy Bears and animals at Christies. The collection that is expected to fetch in the region of 1.3 million pounds contains many rarities including [Read More]