David Bowie, Artist, a public program, will celebrate this singular talent who has continued to be a constant innovator in performance-based practices. Expanding past his notoriety as a musician, David Bowie, Artist showcases the too-often-overlooked [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
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The Queens Museum of Art presents Hassan Khan, The Hidden Location, on view May 22 – August 14, 2011. The Queens Museum of Art is to present the first New York museum installation of Egyptian [Read More]
The Queens Museum of Art presents Site-specific project by Niyeti Chadha, open May 22 – August 14, 2011. Niyeti Chadha’s work borrows visual cues from her immediate surroundings that are architectural or spatial. It begins [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host a variety of free public programs to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, including a two-day Hawaiian cultural festival, the opening of the exhibition “This [Read More]
Mamenchisaurus, an 18-year-old vegetarian known for her 30-foot-long neck and for being one of the world’s largest dinosaurs, recently arrived at the American Museum of Natural History, and thousands of people have come to see [Read More]
British Airways pilot John Hutchison presentation June 4 The Museum of Flight SEATTLE – On Saturday, June 4th, pilot John Hutchison will talk about flying one of the most exotic airliners ever built–the supersonic [Read More]
The Hayward Gallery Presents The First Major London Exhibition of Tracey Emin The Hayward Gallery unveils TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT, the first major survey in London of the work of one of [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents rarely seen 18th-Century Pastel Portraits on view May 17–August 14, 2011. Pastel quite suddenly became popular throughout Europe in the 18th century, so much so that, by 1750, some [Read More]
The Museum Assessment Program (MAP), a proven initiative that promotes professional practices in museums and the field, has announced its latest group of participants. The program is funded by the federal Institute of Museum and [Read More]
The Wellcome Library in London has added to its collection of drawings with the acquisition of a magnificent portrait drawing of the French surgeon Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes (1747-1818) by Pierre Chasselat – a portrait with a [Read More]
Exhibition Marks First Showing of Getty’s Walker Evan’s Cuban Photographs; Also on view are Cuban Revolutionary Photographs and Contemporary Work by Virginia Beahan, Alex Harris, and Alexey Titarenko The Getty Museum Presents Photographs of Cuba [Read More]
The Centre Pompidou-Metz has developed a privileged relationship with Daniel Buren notably through the Constellation pre-inauguration event in 2009 which produced two projects: 5,610 flammes colorées pour un arc-en-ciel (5,610 coloured flames make a rainbow), [Read More]
The international exhibition project On the Metaphor of Growth takes place in three parallel exhibitions in the Kunstverein Hannover (April 16–June 26, 2011), the Kunsthaus Baselland (May 21– July 10, 2011) and the Frankfurter Kunstverein [Read More]
The GRAMMY Museum has created a new division – ASSET DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT – designed to archive and develop an artist’s legacy for historical preservation. ASSET DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT is devoted to building artifact databases [Read More]
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) presents The Industrial Modern, on view MAY 28–SEPTEMBER 4, 2011. The Industrial Modern explores artists’ conflicted responses to industry, labor, and the urban environment from the middle of [Read More]
The GRAMMY Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, has announced today plans to commemorate the life and career of folk music legend Woody Guthrie. Designed to celebrate Guthrie’s [Read More]
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) presents Picturing Technology: Land and Machine, on view MAY 21-AUGUST 21, 2011. In Picturing Technology: Land and Machine, MMoCA’s curator of exhibitions, Jane Simon, explores artists’ reactions to [Read More]
Dr. David W. Penney to Direct the Museum’s New Scholarship Department The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has named Dr. David W. Penney as its first associate director of the museum’s new scholarship [Read More]