The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of the [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 12, 2011
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The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) presents Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas an exhibition on view September 4, 2011. The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) hosts the first museum exhibition [Read More]
The de Young Museum presents an exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) from the permanent collection of Paris’s world-renowned Musée National Picasso. The once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, made possible only because [Read More]
The aerospace industry’s impact on Southern California in the 20th century—and vice versa—will be explored in a new exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this fall. “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace [Read More]
JULY Family Activity Bank of America Weekend Family Workshop Saturdays and Sundays July 2, 3, 9, 10, 23, 24, 30, 31; 11:00 a.m.and 1:00 p.m. “Spy in the Sky” Can you keep a secret? You [Read More]
A colossal marble bust of George Washington by French artist Pierre-Jean David, called David d’Angers (1788–1856), in the collection of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is on view after undergoing conservation analysis [Read More]
CAPC Musée d’art contemporain presents DYSTOPIA. A show written by Mark von Schlegell & curated by Alexis Vaillant on view through 28 August 2011. Amid global crisis, contemporary art finds itself confronted by its own [Read More]
Exhibition Explores Fascination with Sun, Clouds, Moon and Stars Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos, open June 15–November 13, features 39 photographs from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection that explore, among other out-of-this-world [Read More]
The Schneider Museum of Art presents Views from the Inner Eye. Opening with a public reception on Thursday, June 16, 5-7pm, comprising of three one-person exhibitions including, “Morris Graves: From the collection of the Vellutini [Read More]
The National Quilt Museum presents The Nature of Design: Quilts by Cynthia Morgan and Velda Newman. On Exhibit June 8 to September 5. How do quiltmakers respond to nature? How do they portray nature in [Read More]
The William Benton Museum of Art presents The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka, on view now through August 7, 2011. The colored woodcut was ubiquitous in 19th-century Japan, and for Europeans a [Read More]
The Hood Museum of Art presents Embracing Elegance: American Art from the Huber Family Collection on view June 11 through September 4, 2011. Jane Peterson, The Dry Dock, c. 1915, opaque watercolor and charcoal on [Read More]