The Smithsonian museums were closed Tuesday (23 August) because of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. All are reopening Wednesday, except for the Castle Building on the Mall, which requires an inspection because of the age of […]
Daily Archives: August 24, 2011
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Bonniers Konsthall presents The Spiral and the Square. Exercises in Translatability on view 24 August 2011–8 January 2012. What happens in translations between cultures, between languages, between a viewer and an artwork? In The Spiral […]
Patricia “Sue” Canterbury has been appointed The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, it was announced today by Olivier Meslay, the DMA’s Interim Director and its Senior […]
The Museum De Paviljoens presents Suchan Kinoshita: Het verkeerde moment op de juiste plek / The Right Moment at the Wrong Place, on view through September 2011. Suchan Kinoshita, “Gordijn” (Curtain, 2006). © Jordi Huisman, […]
A new exhibition at the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands lifts the lid on the shocking reality of trafficking and forced labour in the capital. The exhibition, opens ofrom 23 August 2011 […]
The Chrysler Museum of Art presents Norfolk’s Past Illustrated with a Kenneth Harris Exhibition. The exhibition is on view August 24, 2011 to January 29, 2012. Admission is free. Kenneth Harris, Portrait of Norfolk, 1965. […]
Three New Volumes Feature the work of Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Carl Mydans The more than 172,000 black-and-white and 1,600 color images that comprise the Farm Security Administration Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) Collection at […]
Established in 2001, Malba – Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, with several exhibitions and events planned to mark the occasion. Malba – Fundación Costantini […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) presents barely there (part two), on view September 16-December 30, 2011. barely there (both parts one and two) considers the ability of art to engage broad and often […]
The National Railway Museum at Shildon is now displaying the sole surviving NER J21 class locomotive No. 65033 in the Collection Building at Locomotion. NER J21 class locomotive No. 65033 Built in Gateshead in 1889, […]
The BBC and V&A have announced Handmade In Britain, a year-long season of programming that will be the most wide-ranging and ambitious exploration of decorative arts ever to be undertaken on British television. Ceramics, metalwork, […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) presents Stéphanie Nava: Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory). On view September 16-December 30, 2011. Considering a Plot (Dig for Victory) is a work in progress, developed by […]
SEATTLE – Aviation High School launched its next era as they celebrated their planned new, $43.5 million campus at The Museum of Flight with a groundbreaking that included five planes piloted by Aviation High School […]