With a $45 million federal appropriation to the Smithsonian Institution, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, will start building what is expected to be one of the most energy-efficient [Read More]
Daily Archives: May 11, 2011
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The Museo Reina Sofía presents an exhibition of work by Yayoi Kusama on view May 11 – September 12 2011. The work of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929) unfolds in the international art [Read More]
Boeing band music, Tuskegee Airmen, and Blue Star Museum program begins with free admission active military through Labor Day SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight honors military service with patriotic music and ceremonies on [Read More]
Grand Palais presents Anish Kapoor: Leviathan an exhibition on view 11th May to 23rd June 2011. Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais [Read More]
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens added to its holdings two significant works of American art on Saturday. At the annual meeting of its Art Collectors’ Council, the institution acquired a 22-foot-long sculpture [Read More]
The Museo del Prado has entered into a collaborative agreement with Art Exhibitions Australia (AEA), a non-profit-making body responsible for the organisation of major exhibitions in Australian museums, and with the Queensland Art Gallery in [Read More]
The Windermere Steamboat Museum & Historic Boat Collection, situated on the shores of Lake Windermere, has successfully passed the first round of a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid. The HLF has endorsed the outline proposal, [Read More]
The Frick Art & Historical Center will present an exhibition Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection. Open October 22, 2011–January 15, 2012. This exhibition features a splendid group of over 100 objects made by famed Russian [Read More]
Surpassing attendance expectations, M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities has drawn record crowds to the Akron Art Museum. As the last of only two venues in the United States to show this once-in-a-lifetime loan from Athens, Greece, [Read More]
The Seattle Art Museum has scheduled an entire summer season packed full of activities that combine visual art, green living and community. Throughout the season, Get Out! aims to be socially responsible and environmentally friendly. [Read More]
Three museums will participate in the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day by offering free admission. Seattle Art Museum will offer free admission to the Seattle Art Museum Downtown and the Seattle [Read More]
Derrick Cartwright is resigning as SAM’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director effective June 30, 2011. Mr. Cartwright was named the museum’s director in May 2009. “This was a difficult decision for me but I feel the [Read More]
The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the [Read More]
Anja Kirschner and David Panos -The Empty Plan, Trine Falch – Theatre for a New Time. Open14 May–26 June 2011. The exhibitions open on the evening of Friday 13th May, with a screening of The [Read More]
Aargauer Kunsthaus presents Mai-Thu Perret The Adding Machine, open 14 May–31 July 2011. The exhibition, which incorporates sculpture, installation, painting, video and performance as well as text-based work, is the most comprehensive presentation to date [Read More]
The American Independence Museum host an Art & Antique Appraisal to benefit the Museum on Saturday, 14 May 2011 at Exeter Town Hall, 7 Front Street, Exeter, NH Professional appraisers from prestigious Winston Art Group, [Read More]