125 years of automotive history meet modern and contemporary art: The Daimler Art Collection is presenting a guest exhibition at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, its first at this venue. The unusual exhibition Art & […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announce the opening of six new exhibitions which feature diverse artist partnerships on Sunday, June 26, 2011. The exhibitions that comprise the Collaborations at The Aldrich semester are: Chelpa Ferro: […]
The Smithsonian‟s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has launched a Facebook application that allows users to virtually try on more than 25 objects from the “Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels” exhibition, […]
The National Portrait Gallery have announced Wim Heldens as the winner of the BP Portrait Award 2011. Wim Heldens wins £25,000 and a commission, at the National Portrait Gallery Trustees’ discretion, worth £4,000. The portrait […]
Today, twenty years after it first opened, the MMK is among the world’s leading museums of contemporary art. In its short history it has assembled a unique collection meanwhile comprising more than 4,500 works of […]
Michael Portillo, Chair of the Judges has announced that the British Museum has won the 2011 Art Fund Prize for its groundbreaking project A History of the World. A History of the World is an […]
The recent BIG TRUCK DAY at the Kemp Auto Museum was a BIG success for the venue and their charitable partner, Operation Food Search. More than 2,000 people attended the June 12th event, which featured […]
On Saturday, June 25 the Museum presents the Let’s Talk About Food Festival, taking place along the DCR Cambridge Parkway, behind the Royal Sonesta and adjacent to the Museum of Science. The festival aims to […]
The High Museum of Art recently acquired three important works for its contemporary art collection. Renowned American artist Alex Katz has given the Museum a painting titled “Twilight” (1998), which is joined by the High’s […]
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is issuing a new Mark Twain stamp on Saturday, June 25 at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. The new design will be formally unveiled in a ceremony […]
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse presents 400 Sonnets in Reverse, Together, the first solo exhibition of Seb Patane in a public institution in France. On view 18 June–28 August 2011. Opening: Friday, 17 June from 7.00 to […]
Opening June 11, 2011, Appropriated Landscapes Includes Photography and Video by Ângela Fer reira, David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Jo Ractliffe, and Guy Tillim, Among Others The complex layers of meaning embedded in the physical attributes […]
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum has announced it is taking steps to preserve Grant’s Drug Store by closing it to the public until funds can be raised to undertake a complete renovation. Grant’s, […]
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents George Condo Mental States a major retrospective exhibition of the American artist George Condo. His work is known for its adventurous, imaginative and provocative character. The exhibition features more than […]
AN EXPERIMENTAL CONFERENCE ON ART AND SCIENCE TO CHALLENGE THE MID-SUMMER SUN is the exotic title of a conference with pioneers of late modernism and experts on art history, which will take place both indoors […]
The Museum for African Art, New York (www.africanart.org), the country’s preeminent museum devoted to the art and culture of Africa and the African Diaspora, today reported that it will open in its new building, on […]
National Building Museum executive director Chase W. Rynd announced a change to the Museum’s policy regarding admission, which has been free since its opening in 1985 as a private, non-profit institution. Starting Monday, June 27, […]
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present salt 3: Cyprien Gaillard, the third in the museum’s new series of exhibitions featuring innovative art from around the […]