On Saturday, June 11, the North Carolina Maritime Museum opens “Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge” – the largest exhibit to date of artifacts from the shipwreck. “The exhibit includes around 300 artifacts, most of them never [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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The Art Institute of Chicago will open its expanded galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas on June 3, 2011. Digital gallery rendering, African art gallery. Copyright © 2011 wHY Architecture Following [Read More]
Nine writers on hand throughout the weekend SEATTLE – On June 18 and 19 the Museum will host a weekend book signing party with nine of the most popular aviation novelists and nonfiction writers in [Read More]
Modern Art Oxford presents Teacher of Dance, the first major UK exhibition of the Seoul- and Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang. Exhibition on view 11 June–4 September 2011. Yang has developed a distinctive practice of colourful [Read More]
B-17, B-24 bombers and P-51 fighter in Seattle for tours and flights SEATTLE – Two historic World War II bombers and a rare, two-seat P-51 fighter aircraft will be at The Museum of Flight [Read More]
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has started a major conservation project, and announced it has been awarded an important grant by the New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) and the Office of Parks, Recreation and [Read More]
The Computer History Museum presents The History of Magnetic Striped Media Technology – A Lecture by Jerome Svigals on Jun 29, 2011. Magnetic striped media are used by more than 80% of the world’s population. [Read More]
Vist the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD on Sunday, August 14 from 10am to 5pm and meet Chesapeake watermen celebrating their heritage at the 2nd Annual Watermen’s Appreciation Day. Beginning at 11am, [Read More]
Ceremony features Coast Guard officials SEATTLE – A restored 1960s-vintage Coast Guard helicopter officially takes its place of honor suspended in The Museum of Flight’s Great Gallery on June 18. The Sikorsky HH-52 Seaguard amphibious [Read More]
James Joyce (1882-1941), author of the prolific landmark novel Ulysses, has been called the greatest 20th-century novelist writing in English. On Thursday, June 16 from Noon – 7pm, the Rosenbach Museum & Library will celebrate [Read More]
Event celebrates new civic space and lighting of Claes Oldenburg’s Paint Torch PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will celebrate the completion of its new civic space, Lenfest Plaza, with PAFA’s [Read More]
The Wilkes Heritage Museum is pleased to present the Fourth Annual Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Stone Center for Performing Arts, 613 Cherry [Read More]
The Royal Academy has opened it’s Summer Exhibition 2011, on view 7 June – 15 August, 2011. The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show. Now in its [Read More]
The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Johnstown presents its latest exhibition, A Celebration of the Wolf Family Donations to the Permanent Collection, 1986-2006. The exhibition features some of the SAMA Permanent Collection’s benchmark works, [Read More]
Through July 15, visitors to the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing will have a rare opportunity to see the headquarters flag carried by the Third Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Shenandoah while under the [Read More]
The Chrysler Museum of Art will present Portraits of a City: Views of Norfolk by Kenneth Harris. Opening Fall 2011. In 1950 the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences—today the Chrysler Museum of Art—commissioned a [Read More]
Appointment Accompanied by the Endowment of Two Additional Mid-Level Asian Curatorships The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), home to one of the most important Asian art collections in the nation, has announced the appointment of [Read More]
The Frick Collection Summer Presentation Explores Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette. exhibition on view June 7 through September 11, 2011. Small Console Table with Supporting Figures of Nubians (detail of one of a [Read More]