The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is [Read More]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
East German artifacts of art, culture and politics from The Wende Museum, the world’s largest Cold War visual archive, will be the subject of a major TASCHEN publication in 2012. The publication will mark the [Read More]
Three days & nights of concerts by Bluegrass Hall of Fame members with their bands! The International Bluegrass Music Museum presents a Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration on September 12, 13 & 14, 2011. Earl Scruggs, [Read More]
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is closing for nine weeks, from Nov. 15 while the museum gets ready for the opening of it’s new Renzo Piano designed wing on Thursday, January 19, 2012. The new [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the acquisition of a wide range of works of art that will significantly enhance its world-renowned collection. Ranging in date from a 10th-century Indian bronze sculpture of the Chola [Read More]
Saint Mary’s College of California has begun construction on an expansion of the Hearst Art Gallery. The new construction will enable the College to increase exhibition space by 50 percent and display a greater number [Read More]
William H. Gross, the founder of PIMCO and a stamp collector, has donated $8 million to the National Postal Museum to create a new 12,000-square-foot gallery that will be named in his honor. The new [Read More]
To coincide with the celebration of World Youth Day and with Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Madrid, the Museo del Prado will be displaying The Entombment of Christ, a major masterpiece by Caravaggio loaned from [Read More]
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents Àngels Ribé: IN THE LABYRINTH an exhibition on view through 23 October 2011. The exhibition by Àngels Ribé (Barcelona, 1943) covers a period of her production from 1969 [Read More]
The Elgin Public Museum presents Illinois Rocks! A Guided Tour Through Geologic Time. The fascinating geological history of Illinois is revealed through rocks and landforms we see today. Turquoise Rock, Elgin Public Museum Built in [Read More]
The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts presents Young Country a group exhibition on view through Jul 29, 2011. Young Country is a traveling exhibition and is organized by the Delaware Center for the Contemporary [Read More]
World War II aircraft fly-in for display, Navy lectures in Museum SEATTLE – On Sunday, July 31, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the Museum’s 2011 celebration of the U.S. Navy’s centennial of flight continues [Read More]
To address the need to meet operational funding goals, The Brogan Museum Board of Directors, in partnership with this Campaign Cabinet, has launched the Five by Five Campaign to help Sustain North Florida’s Only Art [Read More]
The Fitzwilliam Museum presents Flower Drawings: Redouté and his Pupils, an exhibition on view Tue 19 July 2011 to Sun 30 October 2011 in the Shiba Gallery. The ‘Raphael of flowers’, Joseph-Pierre Redouté (1759-1840), internationally [Read More]
Special exhibition examines character of ancient city on the Euphrates, inhabited by Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman peoples. Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos examines the life and culture of this [Read More]
The British Museum presents Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam, an exhibition on view 26 January – 15 April 2012. Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam will be the first major exhibition dedicated [Read More]
China & the story of Macassan-Aboriginal trade opens this Saturday at Melbourne Museum, showcasing the first recorded history of trade relations between China and Australia. Macassan traders developed relationships with Aboriginal clans on the north [Read More]
The National September 11 Memorial announced the launch of an online reservation system to help the public plan a visit to the Memorial. The 9/11 Memorial will be dedicated on September 11, 2011, the 10th [Read More]