The Portland Museum of Art presents John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury open June 23, 2011 – October 10, 2011. John Marin sought Maine as a subject—its islands, mountains, beaches, and rocky shores—from 1917 onward. However, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
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The Toledo Museum of Art will be closed today, February 2, due to the Level 3 snow emergency declared in Lucas County. The Toledo Museum of Art was founded April 18, 1901. The seven incorporators [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Realistic Perfection: The Making of Oriental Ceramic Art on view March 12–June 4, 2011. In 1889, William Walters commissioned Louis Prang & Co., the foremost practitioners of the art of [Read More]
The Arizona State Museum hosts the 13th Annual Southwest Indian Art Fair, Saturday, February 19, 10 a.m.–5 p.m – Sunday, February 20, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Meet 200 Southwest Native artists, many of them award-winning. Talk [Read More]
The Mauritshuis has acquired the exceptional history painting, Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown by Jan Steen (1626-1679), from a private collection. Jan Steen (1626-1679), Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown, c.1670, Canvas, 78 x79 cm. Royal Picture Gallery [Read More]
Key, original excerpts from the historic Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo can be seen at Arizona State Museum, February 2 through 28, 2011. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (named for the town near Mexico City where [Read More]
The High Museum of Art will continue its collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), with the exclusive presentation of the major exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters” beginning October 2011. [Read More]
New construction works at the Museum over the winter months means that from Spring 2011 the Museum will benefit from an enlarged southern apron giving space for 100 new visitor cars and greater access to [Read More]
The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) presents Jasper Johns The Traces of Memory on view through Apr 24, 2011. Exhibitions devoted to Jasper Johns are rare in general and even less frequent in Europe. [Read More]
Generali Foundation presents unExhibit on view 4 February – 17 July 2011. unExhibit takes the legendary show an Exhibit by Richard Hamilton, or more properly by the Independent Group, held at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon [Read More]
Kunsthaus Graz presents Anti/Form Sculptures from the MUMOK Collection on view 5 February – 15 May 2011, Opening: 4 February 2011, 7pm The term “anti-form” in the 1960s represented the abandonment of the traditional concept [Read More]
The Sprengel Museum in Hannover presents Portrayals of Dance in Modern Art. From Varieté to the Bauhaus Stage, on view 02. February 2011 – 01. May 2011. The renowned dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Mary [Read More]
The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) Presents Victoria Civera Slanting dreams open Feb 03 – Apr 17, 2011. This exhibition is not so much a mid-career coverage of Vicky Civera’s work over the last [Read More]
Special exhibition provides portrait of important but little-known ancient culture The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa on view March 11 – June 12, 2011, open Tuesday [Read More]
The National Railway Museum at Shildon, now has three additional locomotives now on display in the museum’s Collection Building. LMS Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 No. 45170 has arrived at Shildon from Turkey, where it saw [Read More]
The Patricia Huffman Smith Museum to honor the seven astronauts who perished in the Shuttle Columbia tragedy has opened in East Texas. In February 2003, Hemphill and its vicinity were one of the key search [Read More]
The Friends of the National Railway Museum have launched an appeal to raise the money to give iconic locomotive Winston Churchill a new look in time for the 50th anniversary year of the wartime leader’s [Read More]
Google has unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over [Read More]