The 5th annual St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance has been set for September 25 on the grounds of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. From left: CBMM President Langley Shook and St. Michaels [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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The Augusta Museum of History is to present the stories of the regions extraordinary individuals with the opening of the Local Legends exhibition on October 28, 2011. The show is divided into areas representing Entertainers, [Read More]
Catharina Manchanda, former Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, will join the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) as the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary [Read More]
Visual artists working in Washington, Oregon or Idaho are invited to apply for the Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM’s) annual Betty Bowen Award. Applications are available now at www.callforentry.org, and the deadline for submissions is Monday, [Read More]
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents a major Lyonel Feininger exhibition, on view JUNE 30–OCTOBER 16, 2011. Born and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) moved at the age of sixteen to Germany, [Read More]
Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of 227 photographs taken by Ai Weiwei, capturing the history, culture, and atmosphere of 1980s New York from his unique perspective. The exhibition, on view June 29 through August [Read More]
Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, a new installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on view through August 28, 2011, revisits the post-World War II art movement to include artists historically not [Read More]
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment, contemporary works by Philadelphia artists Arden Bendler Browning, the Dufala Brothers, Ben Peterson, and Amy Walsh, on view July 2 – [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Mother India an exhibition featuring Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting on view June 29 – November 27, 2011. Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of [Read More]
The Design Museum in London is hosting a Summer Party July 6 at 6 – 10pm. The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, [Read More]
Fondazione Querini Stampalia Onlus presents Marisa Merz: non corrisponde eppur fiorisce It doesn’t match yet it flourishes an exhibition on view 1 June–18 September 2011. One of the most significant and interesting artists of the [Read More]
The Trustees of the Design Museum announced a major gift by the Conran Foundation, endowed by Sir Terence Conran towards the museum’s new development project. This will help to create the world’s leading museum of [Read More]
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance) marks the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Harun Farocki (b. 1944, German-annexed Czechoslovakia) in a United States museum, and features the U.S. premiere of Serious [Read More]
Tate Britain presents BP British Art Displays: Has the film already started? on view 27 June 2011 – Thursday 1 March 2012. Significant new acquisitions to Tate’s Collection by some of Britain’s most innovative contemporary [Read More]
Tate Britain presents John Martin: Apocalypse, on view 21 September 2011 – 15 January 2012. John Martin (1789–1854) was a key figure in the nineteenth-century art world, renowned for his dramatic scenes of apocalyptic destruction [Read More]
The Tallahassee Museum presents it’s 33rd annual Swamp Stomp on Saturday, July 9, 4-9 p.m. Along with the music, you can enjoy outdoor games, close-up animal encounters, living history demonstrations, and environmental education. The line-up [Read More]
The Carnegie Museum of Art presents Architectural Explorations an exhibition on view through August 12, 2011 in The Heinz Architectural Center. The Heinz Architectural Center’s collection comprises more than 5,000 drawings, models, photographs, rare books, [Read More]
The Museum of Glass presents Mildred Howard: Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech. Exhibition open July 2, 2011 – April 29, 2012. Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech is a new [Read More]