Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger is donating casts of the Australopithecus sediba to the National Museum of Natural History. The casts of these skeletons—which include two complete copies for public display and two copies for the Human [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 9, 2011
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Event displays hundreds of models from realistic planes to fantastic spaceships The annual NorthWest Scale Modelers Show returns to The Museum of Flight Feb. 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is [Read More]
Cézanne’s Card Players, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning February 9, 2011, will unite works from the famous series by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), bringing together a majority of the related paintings, oil [Read More]
The Nanaimo Museum presents Literary Luminaries on February 26, 2011. As part of National Heritage week the Nanaimo Museum once again is hosting twelve local authors with a range of writing styles. They will speak [Read More]
A generous donation was received in January by the Nanaimo Museum from the Jim Pattison Foundation. The cheque for $10 000 will be very valuable to us for future gallery and exhibit development. Mr. Pattison [Read More]
The 2011 installment of the Utah Museum of Natural History’s “The Nature of Things” lecture series will emphasize solution-based insight on climate change featuring the President of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, as the [Read More]
Mirror to Discovery: The 200-inch Disk and the Hale Reflecting Telescope at Palomar, an exhibit on view at the Rakow Research Library of The Corning Museum of Glass through October 30, 2011, tells the story [Read More]
Until April 17, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents 19th-Century British Photographs from the NGC, a fascinating exhibition of some of the national collection’s key holdings, including some that have rarely been shown. The [Read More]
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) will host it’s 60th Annual Art Fair on June 3-4, 2011 in Bronson Park. Open Friday, June 3, noon-7 pm – Saturday, June 4, 9 am-4 pm. Hosted by [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired the Van Halen “Frank 2” guitar played and made famous by Eddie Van Halen through a partnership donation with Fender Musical Instruments. It was made [Read More]
The Maine State Museum in Augusta marks the 300th anniversary of one of Maine’s most storied nautical disasters with a new exhibit of objects recovered from the underwater wreck site of the British merchant ship, [Read More]
In a special ceremony, actress Farrah Fawcett’s nephew, Greg Walls, and actor Ryan O’Neal donated objects from the private collection of her estate to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The donation includes the [Read More]
Thomas d’Aquino, Chair of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, announced the appointment of Sylvie Clermont Madely as Director of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation. The Foundation’s Board of Directors selected Ms. Madely for [Read More]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has dedicated a permanent-collection gallery to time-based art, an important new aspect of the media arts initiative at the museum that includes acquisitions, exhibitions, educational programs and archival research resources [Read More]
Three New York master luthiers, renowned for their hand-carved stringed instruments—particularly their archtop guitars, which have been sought after by many of the most important guitarists of the last century—will be the subject of Guitar [Read More]
ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art presents Mischa Kuball platon’s mirror on view 13 February – 3 April 2011. Düsseldorf-based media artist Mischa Kuball is among the few artists who has consistently understood light’s (socio-)political [Read More]
Paul Ruddock has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum’s Chairman. The election took place at the January 11 [Read More]
The San Francisco Art Institute presents Disponible–a kind of Mexican show, Phase 2 on view February 10–March 26, 2011. Opening reception: February 9, 2011, 5:30-7:30 pm. Co-curated by Hou Hanru, SFAI’s Director of Exhibitions and [Read More]