The Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale will present “¡Adelante! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond,” a collection of works by an array of talented Mexican American artists, many who helped forge the Chicano Art Movement [Read More]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
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The Morris Museum princes On the Road: 100 Years of Motorcycles in America, on view September 25 – December 4, 2011. The mission of the Morris Museum is to elevate the cultural consciousness, excite the [Read More]
National Tour of Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections Pays Homage to the Artist and His Southern Influences This fall The Mint Museum will present Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, a major retrospective of one of America’s most [Read More]
Monroe Museum Village presents Civil War Era Re-enactment on Saturday & Sunday, September 3 & 4. More than two hundred re-enactors take over the museum grounds for the weekend, bringing history to life. Museum visitors [Read More]
Artists Simon Fujiwara, Anthony Key, Dave Lewis, Nina Mangalanayagam and Navin Rawanchaikul reflect on the complexities of living with more than one culture. Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) presents an inter-generational exhibition at Rivington [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents 19th-Century Modern an exhibition on view September 2, 2011–April 1, 2012. Featuring more than forty items from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American and European decorative arts, 19th-Century Modern will focus [Read More]
DAM brings together 70 works by the famed artist to reveal key steps in his artistic evolution Becoming Van Gogh, an in-depth exploration of Vincent van Gogh’s unconventional path to becoming one of the world’s [Read More]
KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents Seeing is believing, on view 11 September–13 November 2011. Opening: 10 September 2011, 5–10 pm. Images of terrorist attacks can be seen live and within seconds they are dispatched [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art’s Apollo Society has acquired Figure of a Woman Carrying a Child, a wooden sculpture from the Tabwa peoples in central Africa dating to pre-1880. The subject’s short, bent legs, rounded [Read More]
CINCINNATI – To mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a broad coalition of religious, civic and education leaders has formed the local 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Commemoration Coalition to plan a community-wide observance. [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art’s Apollo Society has acquired the compelling photograph La Grande Odalisque, by Lalla Essaydi, which references Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ famous 1814 reclining nude, La Grande Odalisque. That oil painting, residing in the [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA – The Academy of Natural Sciences, the nation’s oldest natural history museum, this week kicks off a 200-day countdown to a yearlong bicentennial celebration with a fascinating peek at its past and a look [Read More]
A landmark exhibition at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College is one of many events associated with the 300th anniversary of the birth of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg on Sept. 6, [Read More]
The Woodmere Art Museum presents Violet Oakley: The Building of the House of Wisdom an exhibition on view September 25, 2011 – November 6, 2011. In 1910–11, Violet Oakley collaborated with architect Frank Miles Day [Read More]
Sculpture by world-renowned artist Claes Oldenburg ushering in new era of cultural engagement in the region On August 20, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) witnessed a milestone in the history of this [Read More]
New Jersey Lighthouses and selected museums are pleased to again be hosting the “Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey” weekend on Saturday, Oct. 15 and Sunday, Oct. 16. Take the challenge, tour the state and visit [Read More]
The male-dominated Minimal art movement of the 1960s was characterized by an interest in basic geometric shapes and the use of industrially- produced materials. Although many critics consider Anne Truitt (1921–2004) to be a pioneer [Read More]
The La Salle University Art Museum presents the work of emerging Philadelphia artist Sarah Hunter from September 22 through December 8, 2011. Hunter offers whimsical depictions of toy animals in settings defined by flat planes [Read More]