The Arlington Museum of Art presents Bowman & Bowman: Experiments in Visual Metaphors. On view JUNE 1 – JULY 31, 2011. Partners in life and in art, Lee and Carol Bowman present a variegated show [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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New Exhibit Commemorating 51st Anniversary of Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee. The Museum Center at Five Points presents We Shall Not be Moved: 51st Anniversary of Tennessee’s Civil Rights Sit-Ins. The exhibit looks at the [Read More]
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro presents the exhibition Encore! Japanese Actor Prints from the Permanent Collection. On view now through August 7, 2011. The show examines the subject [Read More]
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame presents the 2011 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductions. On Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 4:30 p.m., four science fiction luminaries will be inducted into the Science [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have received a major gift to support Persian art and culture and related programs at the museums. The donor, Jahangir Amuzegar, has established two [Read More]
Dana Friis-Hansen Will Assume the Position of Museum Director and CEO on July 13, 2011 The Board of Trustees of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) announced the appointment of Dana Friis-Hansen as Director and [Read More]
While the vitality and stimulation of the urban environment can be pleasant, those living in or visiting densely populated areas, such as New York, can have wildly different experiences. The ever-present cacophony of traffic, construction, [Read More]
The Rubin Museum in Tel Aviv presents a Selection of Reuven Rubin Paintings from the Permanent collection on view through 30/11/2011. Selected highlights from the museum’s permanent collection, spanning from his earliest works painted in [Read More]
Renovations Enhance Visitor Experience and Provide Newly Designed Exhibition and Teaching Space in the Academy School The National Academy Museum and School will reopen in September 2011 with exhibitions and installations of masterpieces of American [Read More]
The Getty Center will be closed to visitors, scholars and most staff the weekend of July 16 and July 17, 2011, during the demolition of the Mulholland Drive Bridge. Due to road closures, the Getty [Read More]
Fashion in the Middle Ages, on display May 31—August 14, 2011 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, explores how medieval artists used costumes to identify people by profession or to place them in [Read More]
On June 2, 2011, François Pinault Foundation opens the exhibition The World Belongs to You at Palazzo Grassi. François Pinault has appointed Caroline Bourgeois as the curator of this exhibition, which was conceived to coincide [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents a comprehensive solo exhibition with monumental works by Francesco Clemente., on view 8 June–4 September 2011. Francesco Clemente, “A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows (III),” 2009. Watercolor on paper, [Read More]
Haithabu Museum presents Action days at the Viking houses. The Viking Museum Haithabu is one of the most important archaeological museums in Germany. On the edge of the former commercial center of the Vikings since [Read More]
Under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, The Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, and World Monuments Fund (WMF) are launching the Middle [Read More]
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents Museum Madness a fundraiser for CCMNH on Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4 9:30 am-2:30 pm. With Plants, books, CDs, videos, flea market & Gift Shop [Read More]
Military and civilian choppers descend for free family event at the The Museum of Flight SEATTLE – June 18 is a day of heroes and helicopters at The Museum of Flight. The family-friendly American [Read More]
Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa, an overview of Nubia’s rich culture, from its earliest kingdoms (3200–3000 BC) to the Kushite period (ca. 900–400 BC), closes to the public on June 12. On view at New [Read More]