This year’s annual meeting of The Ukrainian Museum, on June 26, saw the election of a new president of the Board of Trustees, Mykola Darmochwal, and the installation of several new Board members. As in [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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The Cranial Academy Foundation announced that funds were extended to the Museum of Osteopathic MedicineSM and International Center for Osteopathic History to support the Viola Frymann Legacy Collection. The Frymann Legacy Collection is a collection [Read More]
Jonathan Bober has joined the National Gallery of Art, Washington, as curator and head of the department of old master prints. He succeeds Peter Parshall, who headed the department from 1999 until his retirement in [Read More]
Brookhaven Town Board Approves License for LIMHOF to Move Into Historic First National Bank, Brookhaven’s former Tax Receiver Office Building in Port Jefferson Village Councilman Fiore-Rosenfeld has announced the Town Board approval of the new [Read More]
Special Exhibit Spotlights the “Queen of Comedy” and the Genius of Desi A new exhibition at the Hollywood Museum celebrates two milestones in the life of America’s Queen of Comedy: Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday on [Read More]
A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh—probably Amenemhat II—will be lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts has announced its unanimous decision to appoint Kristina Van Dyke as Director, following an intensive international search. Ms. Van Dyke, currently the Curator for [Read More]
ARTIST CHUCK CLOSE TO BE HONORED BY THE KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART AT 2011 HIMMEL AWARD AND LECTURE Established in 2009, the annual Katonah Museum Himmel Award & Lecture honors an outstanding leader who has [Read More]
The Studio Museum in Harlem announce the 2011–12 artists in resi- dence: Njideka Akunyili, Meleko Mokgosi and Xaviera Simmons. Since its founding in 1968, the Studio Museum has held a strong commitment to nurturing and [Read More]
The Deer Valley Rock Art Center is seeking volunteers to spend a few hours a week in a beautiful corner of Phoenix, surrounded by nature. The center is hosting a Volunteer Orientation event on Saturday, [Read More]
The ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands presents “Dalí: Mind of a Genius on view now through 30 October, 2011. The Exhibition presents over 250 Savador Dali artworks, making this the first time ever that [Read More]
The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the appointment of Naima J. Keith as Assistant Curator. Naima J. Keith comes to the Studio Museum from a position as Curato- rial Fellow at Los Angeles’s Hammer [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents an exhibition of Prints by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, on view from Monday 01 August 2011. The exhibition presents a selection of prints by painter and print master [Read More]
Debuting September 22, 2011, the Indianapolis Museum of Art presents FLOW (Can You See the River?), an installation by Mary Miss spanning a six-mile stretch along the White River and throughout 100 Acres and the [Read More]
MAM Director Thomas Collins announced the appointment of Tobias Ostrander to chief curator, deputy director for curatorial affairs. Ostrander, a visual arts curator with nearly two decades of experience at some of the world’s top [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has commissioned an inventive concession stand from the Swedish architecture duo Visiondivision for 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, which will begin construction this summer. Visiondivision’s [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Playing the City 3 on 11–25 August 2011. Playing the City—take three. From August 11 to August 25, 2011, more than fifteen international artists will occupy the inner city of Frankfurt [Read More]
Eight days earlier than in record-breaking year 2010, Hannover Adventure Zoo was pleased to welcome its millionth visitor on August 3, 2011. The guest of honor, Katja Seeliger from Rellingen close to Hamburg, entered the [Read More]