Illuminating the Sea: The Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894 — a major retrospective exhibition highlighting the work of famed 19th-century marine artist James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894), opens at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 16, 2011
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Museum of London’s new music trivia app! Soundtrack to London has been exclusively developed for Nokia’s Ovi Store and reveals some of the people, places and events that have made London one of the world’s [Read More]
Alec Baldwin, the prolific star of film, television, and theater, will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image on Monday, February 28, 2011 at Cipriani 42nd Street at its annual gala Salute. A [Read More]
The Museum of London presents London Street Photography an exhibition on view 18 February to 4 September 2011, FREE entry. Street photographs are at the heart of our understanding of London as a diverse and [Read More]
The Grohmann Museum presents Lake Boats: The Photography of Jim Brozek and Christopher Winters open through April 3, 2011. Local photographers Jim Brozek and Christopher Winters have both spent time on Great Lakes freighters documenting [Read More]
The National Technical Museum in Prague reopens on Tuesday after being closed for renovations. The National Technical Museum was founded in 1908 and is the biggest Czech institution specializing in technical museum exhibits. It gathers [Read More]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents The Art of Video Games, an exhibition open March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012. The Art of Video Games is the first exhibition to explore the forty-year evolution [Read More]
The Discovery Museum Science & Space Center announced today it has completed a much anticipated Robotics Lab that will encourage education in science, technology, engineering and math in the Sacramento region. The Robotics Lab, which [Read More]
Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy invites visitors to explore more than 50 paintings, textiles and decorative arts that defined the style that became known as the Italian Renaissance. The artworks and sumptuously [Read More]
The Museum at Campbell River presents Textile Art Exhibit – Turning the Tide, one ripple at a time… On view February 8 – 20, 2011. “Turning the tide, one ripple at a time” is an [Read More]
The Frick Collection presents Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections on view February 15, 2011, through May 15, 2011. In the century that has passed since the collectors Henry Clay [Read More]
Watercolour at Tate Britain invites you to challenge your preconceptions of what watercolour is. The most ambitious exhibition about watercolour ever to be staged, with works spanning 800 years, this boundary-breaking survey celebrates the full [Read More]
“I maintain that the expression of rubbish, of objects, possesses an immediate intrinsic value, without the will of aesthetic compositions obliterating them and likening them to the colors on a palette; furthermore, I introduce the [Read More]
The DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of work by Ceal Floyer on view 16 February–16 May 2011. Ceal Floyer’s art displays a clarity of thought within elegantly concise presentations. Engaged and active [Read More]