The National Gallery of Victoria presents This Wondrous Land: Colonial Art on Paper, on view 16 July–27 November 2011. This exhibition explores colonial settlement in Australia through a stunning selection of late eighteenth and nineteenth [Read More]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
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An important collection of Tibetan Buddhist art in the U.S. has been given to the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, announced the gift in the presence [Read More]
The Frans Hals Museum presents eight new paintings on view from 12 July, six on loan, one gift and one that has been purchased. The portrait of a woman by Frans Hals which the museum [Read More]
The High Museum of Art recently established a new academic affiliation with a second University System of Georgia institution, Georgia College (GCSU). This will be the fifth academic affiliation with an educational partner for the [Read More]
Exhibition at the Central Library Tells the Story of Mexico’s Past through Period Photographs The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), which lasted a decade and transformed the nation, was extensively chronicled by Mexican, American, and European photographers [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced that one of the most prominent holdings of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France’s Cabinet des Médailles in Paris, the Berthouville Treasure, has begun a three-year-long process of conservation and [Read More]
The Walker Art Center presents Summer Jubilee, a two-week residency with Machine Project, a non-profit confederacy of artists that makes its home in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Hosting weekly events that span [Read More]
Commanding Officer of Everett-based USS Nimitz aircraft carrier honored guest SEATTLE – Media are invited to attend the July 22 VIP opening reception for The Museum of Flight’s new temporary exhibit, Soaring at Sea: 100 [Read More]
Irish artists and writers have played a fascinating role in the story of modernism, and The Moderns traces this by bringing together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture, photography, film, architecture, literature, music and design, [Read More]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has announced the acquisition of Wall Grid (3 x 3) (1966), an important early work by Sol LeWitt, one of the key artists of the postwar period. [Read More]
The African American Civil War Museum has re-opened in Washington with a Ribbon Cutting and Dedication Ceremony held on July 18. The New location is 1925 Vermont Avenue NW, directly across from the African American [Read More]
Bill Boeing, Jr. featured speaker at July 16 ceremony SEATTLE – William E. Boeing, Jr., the son of Boeing Aircraft Company’s founder, was a featured speaker at The Museum of Flight’s July 16th “Heroes of [Read More]
The new DePaul Art Museum will open on September 16, 2011, with a new exhibition titled Chicago Needs More Famous. The exhibition will extend through February 2012. Focusing on the span of art history in [Read More]
The Maryhill Museum of Art presents an exhibition to Explore Mid-Columbia Indian Life between 1900 and the late 1950s. The exhibition “Beside the Big River”is on view July 16 – November 15, 2011. Organized by [Read More]
The Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth, has opened a New Found Treasures exhibition, a special exhibition of newly commissioned works by nine artists inspired from the collections held in the museum are to be displayed [Read More]
Leading The Power Plant is an exciting and high-profile position with one of Canada’s finest arts institutions, with high visibility globally. The gallery is seeking a Director who will lead this dynamic and innovative public [Read More]
The Science Museum of Minnesota has some Tobacco seeds on board the Space Shuttle during it’s last mission. The seeds will be studied at the museum when they are returned after the shuttle returns to [Read More]
The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive is a pluralistic digital archive using the digital virtual globe “Google Earth to display on it in a multilayered way all the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima [Read More]