As the Birmingham Museum of Art enters its 60th year a a new collection handbook, Birmingham Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection has been published. This 272-page catalog is an outstanding survey of four [Read More]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
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The Petach Tikva Museum of Art presents Itzik Badash: Zala on view through 16 February 2011. Female-sung eulogy, customary in Jewish congregations hailing from Islamic countries, is at the core of Itzik Badash’s new video [Read More]
The SOUPERgreen exhibition, on view February 12 – April 14, 2011, features five architectural propositions that critically challenge the discipline’s prevailing attempt to address the environmental crisis as either an engineering problem to be simply [Read More]
The Charleston Museum, America’s first museum, holds one of the finest historic textiles and clothing collection in the southeastern United States. To increase public accessibility to this rich collection, the Museum has created a 2,000 [Read More]
The Muskegon Museum of Art presents Upcycling! Creating More with Less on view February 3 through April 3, 2011. Opening Reception: Thursday, February 17, 5:30 pm. On March 25 and 26, 2011, the West Michigan [Read More]
Thw Muskegon Museum of Art is hosting Super Tornado Saturday/Free Family Fun Day on Saturday, January 08. 10:00 am Watch Out! This is a wild and crazy sort of Saturday that spins around the MMA’s [Read More]
The Muskegon Museum of Art presents WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball Original Paintings by Kadir Nelson, on view January 13 through March 13, 2011. Award-winning artist and author Kadir Nelson [Read More]
The National Museum of Commercial Aviation is planning a new Museum Campus comprised of several buildings, built in phases over a number of years. The main building will be a themed terminal covering the major [Read More]
For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen an extraordinarily successful year has drawn to a close. More than 320,000 people visited the 30-plus presentations that the museum organised in its own building and on location. The museum [Read More]
Free Winter Weekdays from January 3 through February 4, 2011. The museum invites everyone to take advantage of free admission every weekday, all day long—from Monday, January 3 through Friday, February 4, 2011, including late [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is displaying nine photographs of President John F. Kennedy and his family taken by Richard Avedon for Harpers Bazaar. The photos will be on view until Feb. 28. [Read More]
As part of it’s Collecting Initiative the Smithsonian National Museum of American History will acquire a skateboard deck ridden by renowned skateboarder Tony Hawk following the closing ceremony this evening at the Quiksilver All 80s [Read More]
One of the oldest surviving gondolas from Venice is now on view on the mezzanine of the East Building at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. It will complement the exhibition Venice: Canaletto and His [Read More]
Mayor Gavin Newsom, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, City Controller Ben Rosenfield, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu and the Asian Art Museum Foundation, the private fundraising arm of the Asian Art Museum, today announced a [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of [Read More]
The San Diego Museum Council announce that its heavily discounted and sought-after event, Museum Month, is back this February 2011. During the entire month of February, individuals can pick up a free Museum Month Pass [Read More]
The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army is the most successful exhibition presented by the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in the decade since Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (2000). From the exhibition’s [Read More]
One of the coral reefs in Carnegie Science Center’s SeaScape exhibit has thrived so well that it has outgrown its aquarium tank. Dave Sobal, aquarium animal coordinator at the Science Center, has been in contact [Read More]