The British Library and Google have announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library’s collections. This major project plans to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution […]
Daily Archives: June 21, 2011
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Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter and John Glenn are to speak at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s annual John H. Glenn Lecture in Space History, on Thursday, June 23 8:00 pm. The lecture will […]
On Tuesday, June 21, Yale University’s Dr. Jon Butler will present “Religion and Politics in the American Experience.” The lecture, which is open to the public, is a program of the Teaching American History professional […]
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) dives into the dynamic, varied and beautiful world of water to present Ripple Effect, The Art of H2O. Inspired by natural phenomena such as fog, snowflakes and geysers, the 16 […]
The Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg (MFA) presents Four Portfolios of the Twentieth-Century: Archipenko, Gropper, Evans, and Doisneau on July 16-November 13,2011. This exhibition brings together two lithographic and two photographic portfolios by four […]
The Yale Center for British Art presents Art in Focus: William III, an exhibition on view through Sunday, July 31, 2011. Art in Focus is an academic initiative for members of the Yale Center for […]
The Mercer Museum in Doylestown, presents A World of Things: The Mercer Museum A-Z, the first exhibition in its new, $12.5 million, 13,000-square-foot wing. The exhibition features a diverse sampling of the museum’s 40,000-piece collection […]
The Everson Museum of Art presents The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald on view June 25, 2011 – September 18, 2011. For more than four decades, David MacDonald has masterfully created richly […]
The Mint Museum presents From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland, the first exhibition to explore the artist’s striking Irish portraits, on view through 7 August 2011. Organized by The Mint Museum and […]
Creating the New Century, is a special exhibition, on view through JULY 10, 2011. organized by The Dayton Art Institute, features 70 paintings, drawings, and sculptures – all created since the year 2000 – from […]
As part of its 50th birthday celebrations the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has generously awarded the Art Fund a grant to support RENEW, a funding scheme designed to encourage new approaches to collecting fine, decorative or […]
The new M Shed Museum in Bristol opened to the public on Friday 17 June 2011. Built on the site of the former Industrial Museum in Prince’s Wharf on Wapping Road, in Bristol, M Shed […]