Audience of space fans applaud Discovery SEATTLE – A crowd of space fans from across the nation and around the world converged on the William M. Allen Theater at The Museum of Flight today for […]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents an exhibition of new photographs by Yossi Breger on view through June 4, 2011. The exhibition marks the 90th birthday of Yosl Bergner. The exhibition presents 159 photos, […]
Kestnergesellschaft presents a solo exhibition of works by photographer David LaChapelle on view 5 february to 8 may 2011. Since the 1990s and 2000s the American photographer David LaChapelle (*1964) has been well known for […]
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs announced that The Danish Immigrant Museum has been awarded an Iowa Cultural Trust Endowment Challenge Grant in the amount of $28,000. The museum is one of eleven Iowa cultural […]
The Barnum Museum in Hartford CT is facing repairs expected to be in the region of $15 to $17 million after after tornado damage. The Barnum Museum is hosting a press conference on Friday February […]
The National Gallery of Australia presents Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands on view until 29 May 2011. The first Solomon Islands exhibition in Australia, Varilaku tells a story of both beauty and aggression, […]
This spring, the Hirshhorn provides the opportunity to view some of the best in contemporary film and the chance to meet celebrated filmmakers and animators as they introduce screenings of their award-winning work and provide […]
The Hirshhorn is to be the premiere East Coast venue for the first U.S. retrospective of work by noted postwar abstract painter Blinky Palermo (German, b. Leipzig, 1943; d. Maldives, 1977). Although the artist’s reputation […]
With its major spring show, Deichtorhallen Hamburg is once again bringing stars of the international art world to Hamburg. Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have long since been acknowledged icons of contemporary art. […]
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents a retrospective of work by André Kertész on view 26 February–15 May 2011. André Kertész—who was born in Budapest in 1894 and died in New York in 1985—was a supporter of Brassaï, […]
This conference aims to tackle key questions around the museum as an institutional entity and contemporary art as an art historical category. Speakers will provide an overview of developments across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, […]
The Fort Worth Stockyards Museum is carrying out interior renovation to it’s 1902 Exchange Building, the home of the Stockyards Museum. The work started February 7th, 2011. The Museum has been re-arranged while the work […]
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum has opened it’s new multimedia and learning centre. This space is more than the sum of its parts. It is a state of the art Theatre, lecture hall, event […]
Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition, The Subject is Light: The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings, opening March 19, 2011 and on view through August 21, 2011. The exhibition […]
Imperial War Museum North will be shedding new light on the role played by women at sea during the Second World War as it launches a new film to mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday […]
The Massachusetts General Hospital has begun construction of a landmark museum of medical innovation, scheduled to be completed in late 2011. Following several years of planning and coordination led by the MGH History Committee, the […]
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has received a $90,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Renewal Fund (AARF). The museum will use the money to fund the position of assistant curator and to […]
Almost three years after disaster struck the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML), plans have been finalized for the historic relocation of the flood damaged building currently located at 30 Sixteenth Ave. SW. […]