Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
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The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Edward Weston: Life Work on view May 7, 2011 – July 24, 2011. Edward Weston: Life Work surveys the fifty-year career of a giant of twentieth-century photography. The photographs [Read More]
Malmö Konsthall presents Exhibition of Work by Anna Maria Maiolino, open 21 May–21 August 2011. Malmö Konsthall presents the first major European retrospective of Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942). Maiolino’s complex works have [Read More]
The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, [Read More]
Malmö Konsthall presents Poul Gernes-Retrospective, open 21 May–21 August 2011. The painter, sculptor and filmmaker Poul Gernes (1925-1996) is considered a modern classic and numbers among the most influential of Scandinavian artists. He constantly sought [Read More]
The Witte de With Center For Contemporary Art presents The End of Money a group exhibition on view 22 May–7 August 2011. The End of Money is a group exhibition about time and value. Bringing [Read More]
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]
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]