The Museum of Science has teamed up with Segway® of Boston to offer the Museum of Science Segway® Experience, educational tours through Cambridge using innovative personal transportation vehicles. Developed by Museum of Science exhibit and [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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The Queensland Art Gallery presents an exhibition telling the story of an artistic marriage and partnership, one of the most significant in Australian art. Both were painters of modern life at the turn of the [Read More]
Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces today the appointment of Sarah Schleuning as the Museum’s new curator of decorative arts and design. Schleuning [Read More]
A rare copy of the Barcelona Haggadah edition, which was printed in 1992 in London through a special project with the British Museum and is the only copy in a four-state region, has been acquired [Read More]
Ben Quilty’s portrait of Margaret Olley wins this year’s Archibald Prize This year, the 90th year of Archibald, there were 798 entries for Archibald, 810 for the Wynne and 633 entries for the Sulman. The [Read More]
The High Museum of Art will organize and host an exhibition of 64 color photographs by Atlanta-based photographer Robert “Chip” Simone. Having worked as a classic black-and-white street photographer for most of his career, Simone [Read More]
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing [Read More]
Wyspa Institute of Art, in collaboration with the City of Gdansk and Gdansk 2016 is launching a series of international exhibitions, art events, publications and on-line activities under the title Alternativa scheduled for the Summers [Read More]
Istanbul Modern presents an exhibition addressing the relationship between art, nature and technology: Paradise Lost. Open now through 24 July 2011, the exhibition consists of digital media and video works. Included in the show are [Read More]
Mudam Luxembourg presents Out-of-Sync The Paradoxes of Time. Open through 22 May 2011. The Out-of-Sync exhibition broaches the sweeping issue of the place taken up by the dimension of time in the visual arts from [Read More]
Kiasma, Museum Of Contemporary Art in Helsinki presents ARS 11 on view 15 April–27 November 2011. ARS 11 Will Change Your Perceptions about Africa and Contemporary Art The ARS 11 exhibition in Museum of Contemporary [Read More]
The committee for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) 14th Annual Boating Party – Dressing the Ship, has set the date for this year’s signature event for Saturday, September 10, 2011. The fundraising gala will [Read More]
The Polar Museum in Cambridge is in the running for the Art Fund Prize 2011, the UK’s largest arts prize. It is among ten museums to be long listed for the prestigious £100,000 award, including [Read More]
Eva Hesse Spectres 1960, an exhibition of rarely seen paintings by the artist Eva Hesse (1936–1970), will be presented in the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art beginning September 16, 2011 through [Read More]
Nina Simon, nationally renowned museum consultant and exhibit-design expert, is the new Executive Director of the Museum of Art & History (MAH) at the McPherson Center in Santa Cruz. After an extensive nationwide search, with [Read More]
George Washington’s home, Historic Mount Vernon, broke ground at a special ceremony on April 14 for a new $47 million presidential library. The groundbreaking program featured remarks by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, an [Read More]
Alte Pinakothek in Munich presents Cranach in Bavaria on view 14.04.2011 – 17.07.2011. To mark the Alte Pinakothek’s jubilee year, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen has gathered 30 works from its large and far-flung holdings of paintings [Read More]
The Menil Collection presents Upside Down: Arctic Realities, on view April 15–July 17, 2011. Powerful forces combine in UPSIDE DOWN: ARCTIC REALTIES, an exhibition and museum-going experience at the Menil. Rare and rarely exhibited examples [Read More]