The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) hosts it’s 13th Annual KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE on Sat. May 7, 2011. A race of wacky, imaginative, totally human-powered works of art designed to travel on land, through mud, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
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The Colne Valley Museum has announced three exhibitions, Golcar Lily Day and The Golcar Sing From 11th June 2011 to 31st July 2011 Looking back over past Golcar Lily Days, the exhibition will include the [Read More]
May 21 flag ceremony, exhibit preview and lecture begin free military admissions at Museum through summer The Museum of Flight begins a program of free admission for active military personnel with I.D. and up to [Read More]
The New York State Museum presents The 1911 Capitol Fire Exhibition as part of a series of special events and programs commemorating the 100th anniversary of the devastating fire that struck the New York State [Read More]
The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum has closed, reports Azcentral.com. “The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum closed abruptly over the weekend, ending a favorite destination for schoolchildren and fanning controversy over the building’s future as [Read More]
ArtSway, the innovative contemporary art gallery based in England’s New Forest, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth, presents ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. Gayle Chong Kwan’s installation The Obsidian Isle explores ideas of [Read More]
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced the appointment of historian Thomas F. Schwartz as the new director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum. His appointment is effective July 5, 2011. [Read More]
A man who has become a leader in promoting awareness of missing persons as a result of having a missing loved one in his own family will tell his moving story to families and friends [Read More]
From 6 May to 5 June 2011, artist Yang Jiechang will show three works under the title of Stranger than Paradise. With this exhibition, the artist uses the figure of the animal, the landscape and [Read More]
SEATTLE – Guy Norris, senior editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and the author of “Boeing 787 Dreamliner,” will present an insider’s story behind Boeing’s newest airliner during a lecture at 7 p.m. [Read More]
Peter Galassi, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, will retire from that position in July, it was announced today by MoMA’s Director, Glenn [Read More]
Exhibition showcases hidden Venetian treasures from Isabella Gardner’s rare books collection From May 3 to June 19, visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are invited to take a closer look at seven Venetian manuscripts [Read More]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology announce the selection of the 2011 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to Miki Kratsman, a prize-winning Argentinean-born [Read More]
The Blanton Museum presents About Face: Portraiture as Subject, open April 30 – September 4, 2011. About Face: Portraiture as Subject, a unique exhibition organized by The Blanton, features 40 portraits in diverse mediums from [Read More]
The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees announced its selection of the Maryland-based architecture firm Ziger/Snead to work with the Museum on its ambitious $24 million capital renovation. The decision follows a comprehensive year-long [Read More]
The Tyler Museum of Art presents a selection of oil paintings by Sedrick Huckaby, a Texas artist who uses thick, impasto paint to create his shape-shifting quilt murals, evocative of tradition, family and his own [Read More]
The Kresge Art Museum presents Hiraki Sawa: Other Dwellings a seminal single-channel works of this young Japanese-born artist whose videos have placed him at the forefront of a new generation of video artists. Sawa’s videos [Read More]
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women an exhibition on view May 1–November 27, 2011, in the new North Carolina Gallery of the NCMA’s East Building. Featuring works from the NCMA’s permanent collection as well as loans, [Read More]