The Museum Of Russian Icons has extended it’s 1000 Years of Veneration Exhibition through October 1. Exhibited together for the first time, these precious and beautiful works span 1000 years of Russian history. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into how Orthodox tradition inspired the development of Russian culture from the first Tsars onward. Some […]
The Museum Of Russian Icons will present an acclaimed collection of Russian metal icons and crosses, which chronicles the entire history of the Russian Orthodox Church from the 11th C. to the 19th C. On view Oct. 15, 2011 – January 7, 2012. The holy objects on view in Sacred Russian Castings are of a […]
The Hixson Museum of Flight is to host Wings, Wheels, and Water in memory of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The Hixson Museum of Flight,s 18,000 sq. ft. facility is located right beside the 3,005 ft. runway at Dallas Bay Skypark (1A0).Most days work is being done on the aircraft. The independent, non-profit Hixson Flight […]
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents The Allure of Paper: Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection, on view through October 9, 2011. Infrequently shown because of their sensitivity to light, the nearly 100 artworks in this special exhibition have never before been exhibited together. Admission is free. […]
The Asheville Art Museum presents The Elemental Arts: Air | Earth | Fire | Water. Opening September 2. The four elements are universal energies, grounded not only in the nature of our planet, but also within our bodies.Our lungs and breath relate to air, our skeleton and flesh to earth, the heat generated by our […]
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Romare Bearden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display Bearden’s The Block, a six-panel tableau that portrays one city block of the Harlem neighborhood that nurtured his career. On view at the Metropolitan Museum from August 30, 2011, through January 2, 2012, Romare Bearden […]
The Lentos Museum of Modern Art presents Ralo Mayer / Obviously a Major Malfunction on view through 23 October 2011. 4.56-billion-year-old meteorites, a painting from the collection of the LENTOS, a closed eco system and a checklist that travelled to the moon and back with the astronauts on board Apollo: four highly diverse objects that […]
The Knoxville Museum of Art presents FAX an exhibition on view, August 26-November 6, 2011. The exhibition consists of faxes submitted by nearly 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center, New York, along with seminal examples of early telecommunications art. The KMA will invite additional artists to submit works […]
Four photographers — two each from Canada and India — have been shortlisted for The Grange Prize 2011, Canada’s largest cash prize for photography. The winner of the $50,000 prize is chosen by public vote, which opens today and continues through October 23 at www.thegrangeprize.com. The winner will be announced at a gala reception hosted […]
The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College has placed on view nine works from its collection by renowned photographer, filmmaker and Hampshire College professor Jerome “Jerry” Liebling, who passed away on July 27. Born in Brooklyn in 1924, Liebling studied photography with Walter Rosenblum at Brooklyn College and with Paul Strand as part of the […]
Jennifer Farrell, whose scholarly research, writing, foundation and curatorial work focuses on modern and contemporary art, joined the University of Virginia Art Museum staff Aug. 15 as curator of exhibitions. She will be in charge of developing in-house exhibitions, working with outside curators to formulate future projects and advising on museum purchases, among other duties. […]
Political and social satire, comic-strip and comic-book drawings, New Yorker magazine illustrations and graphic narratives—original cartoon art that was added to the Library of Congress collections during the past decade—will be featured in a new exhibition, “Timely and Timeless: New Comic Art Acquisitions.” The exhibition opens Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, in the changing-exhibit space of […]
