The National Coal Mining Museum for England near Wakefield has recently acquired a first edition of Georgius Agricola’s volume De Re Metallica, the definitive early treatise on mining methods, engineering, chemistry and geology. The volume, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
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The Yellowstone Art Museum announces it’s 43rd Annual Art Auction – On The Wing. “From the early days when it was one of the only museum-based art auctions, the Yellowstone Art Museum continues its tradition [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago presents Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character on view January 29 – May 29, 2011. Since 1990, Jim Nutt has focused exclusively on female heads in spare line [Read More]
Pop Art master Jim Dine will show his prolific, yet less well-known, sculptural efforts in the first-ever sculpture retrospective. This exclusive exhibition, opening January 28, traces the origins of his three-dimensional efforts from rarely seen [Read More]
The Butler Institute of American Art presents Herbert Ascherman: Native Americans, Photographs (Youngstown) on view through Mar 06, 2011. Considered by many one of this nation’s foremost living portrait photographers, Herbert Ascherman has rejected modern [Read More]
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art on view March 27–August 28, 2011 in theThe Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall. One of Eight Views of [Read More]
The Hammer Museum presents All of this and nothing the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international [Read More]
The Bruce Museum presents Astronomy Day Astronomy Day Family Day on Saturday, February 12, 2011, 1:00 – 4:00 PM. Activities and crafts for everyone focusing on the stars and planets! STARLAB Planetarium will run continuous [Read More]
The Krannert Art Museum presents OPENSTUDIO The Speaker Project open January 28 through April 3, 2011. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Krannert Art Museum presents OPENSTUDIO: a series of public programs in conjunction with [Read More]
MoAD Celebrates with ‘Hands on the Freedom Plow’ Author, ‘Freedom Riders’ Screening, Jazz, Free Family Offerings SAN FRANCISCO – The Museum of the African Diaspora is uniquely positioned to lead the Bay Area’s recognition of [Read More]
The Krannert Art Museum presents Building a Modern Collection: A Look Back on view January 28 through May 1, 2011. In honor of Krannert Art Museum’s 50th Anniversary, KAM will be focusing on an installation [Read More]
The National Coal Mining Museum is open this weekend and Underground Tours re-open from Monday 31 January 2011. The Museum galleries and all of the above-ground facilities are open for visitors and the Underground Tours [Read More]
The Museum of the African Diaspora presents Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition, Contemporary African American Quilts on view January 27, 2011 – April 24, 2011. Textural Rhythms, curated by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, Founder and [Read More]
The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park presents Butterflies Are Blooming open March 1 – April 30, 2011. A visitor favorite in its sixteenth year, Butterflies Are Blooming features butterflies from tropical regions around the [Read More]
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents Laszlo Moholy-Nagy The Art of Light on view 29 January 2011 – 1 May 2011. Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light [Read More]
Photographs from Pieter Hugos “Permanent Error” series and Zwelethu Mthethwa’s “Interiors” and “Sugar Cane” series The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of nine photographs by two important South African photographers, Pieter Hugo and [Read More]
Musée d’art contemporain presents Anri Sala on view February 3 – April 25, 2011. An exhibition that can be viewed like a single work of art: that is what visitors will experience at the MAC [Read More]
Renown HSU geophysicist & head of Humboldt Earthquake Information Center, Lori Dengler will present new research on Saturday, February 5 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm. Recommended reading: Simon Winchester’s “A Crack in the Edge of the [Read More]