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 [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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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 [Read More]
The Racine Art Museum presents Field of Vision: Artists Explore Place, on view now through October 2, 2011. Our feelings or memories about a place are formed by how a location (beach, forest, field, building) [Read More]
The Henery Ford Museum is displaying the original Emancipation Proclamation for a limited time in June. On loan from the National Archives, the original Emancipation Proclamation is one of the landmarks of American history. As [Read More]
Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh has approved a site on the North Post of Fort Belvoir, Va., for construction of the National Museum of the U.S. Army, scheduled to open in June 2015. [Read More]
The Akron Art Museum Presents The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Ohio on view June 18 through October 2, 2011. The remarkable story of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel has become the stuff [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Martha Colburn: Triumph of the Wild on view in Gallery 301 from June 17 through September 5, 2011. Artist and filmmaker Martha Colburn depicts a frenetic, whirlwind narrative of [Read More]
Dassault Systèmes, announced that the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), was selected by the IDG Computerworld Honors Program as a 2011 Laureate. The annual award program taking place tonight [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection, on view June 17 – September 4, 2011. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents works from one of the [Read More]
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Gustav Stickley & the American Arts and Crafts Movement, the first nationally touring exhibition to focus on the artist’s career and his contributions to the history of American [Read More]
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture on view now through August 28, 2011. This exhibition was organized by guest curator Helaine Posner for SculptureCenter in New York and features a selection [Read More]
The Bruce Museum presents Picasso’s Vollard Suite: The Sculptor’s Studio, on view June 18, 2011 – October 16, 2011. In 1932, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) purchased the château Boisgeloup in Normandy, where he set himself up [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, on view June 18 – October 16, 2011. Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Collection is an exhibition that [Read More]
Now in its twelfth edition at MoMA PS1, the YAP – Young Architects Program arrives for the first time in Rome, thanks to the collaboration between the MAXXI and MoMA/MoMA PS1. On view 23 June–16 [Read More]
Edgar Hansen of the fishing vessel Northwestern—as featured on Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch,” is coming to St. Michaels, MD and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Sunday, August 14 for the 2nd annual Watermen’s Appreciation [Read More]
Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: In Utero, on view now through 29 July 2011. Parasol unit dedicate’s a solo exhibition to the Polish artist Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Ziolkowski’s paintings are [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD has expanded its members’ docking services to include free Wi-Fi, complimentary coffee, and extended hours of operation. The museum’s 18-acre waterfront campus sits along the [Read More]
Following almost 20 years at the helm of the DZ BANK Art Collection Luminita Sabau is now leaving DZ BANK AG on 30 June 2011. Since 1992 the art historian has been in charge of [Read More]