The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) presents Mirror of the Buddha. Early Portraits from Tibet open October 21, 2011 – March 5, 2012. Taklungthangpa Chenpo with His Lineage and Manifestations (detail); Eastern Tibet; early 14th […]
Daily Archives: October 22, 2011
On Saturday, November 5th The National Academy hosts a day-long symposium of lectures, a film screening and a panel discussion on artist Will Barnet, looking at different aspects of the artist’s life, work and place […]
The Wexner Center for the Arts presents Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow, on view through December 30, 2011. The exhibition is the first major survey of the artist’s work, with nearly 40 paintings that […]
The Wexner Center Foundation appointed Nick Akins, president of American Electric Power, to the board at its fall meeting at the Wexner Center for the Arts on October 6. Akins takes the place of outgoing […]
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery presents Victoria Sambunaris. Taxonomy of a Landscape a comprehensive, ten-year survey of the work of Victoria Sambunaris (American, born 1964) marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at a major American museum. […]
The Scottish National Gallery presents George Bain. Master of Modern Celtic Art on view through 13 February 2012. George Bain, Army tents at a Camp near Mahmudli, Macedonia, 1917. Watercolour on paper, 125 mm x […]
Photographs by Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, and Others The Albright-Knox Art Gallery presents Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland on view October 21, 2011–January 22, 2012. Russell Lee (American, 1903–1986). […]
The Columbus Museum of Art presents Caravaggio: Behold the Man! offering the opportunity to view the work of this Italian Baroque master. Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), painted by Caravaggio around 1605, and lent by […]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired the painting Yarrow Mamout, 1819, an exceptionally rare portrait of an African-American by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), one of the most renowned American artists of the late 18th […]
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art has acquired aWoman Standing, Holding a Fan by Mary Cassatt. The painting, created in 1878–79, is one of only two known canvases painted by the artist almost entirely […]
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will feature eighty iconic works by more than seventy-five artists from the late nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the history of […]
Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery presents The Art Books of Henri Matisse an exhibition on view 21 October 2011 – 15 April 2012. The exhibition comprises 63 framed original illustrations with text from four of Matisse’s […]
In April the Board of the Founders of Fondazione Museion confirmed Letizia Ragaglia as director of the museum for the next four years. Curator at various institutions, Ragaglia (1969, I), who is specialised in museology […]
Robert M. Baylis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Rubin Museum announced that the Museum has received a $25 million gift from Shelley and Donald Rubin, the Museum’s founders. […]
Nov. 5 Honeywell lecture recalls the story of Cal Rogers epic 1911 flight across the U.S. SEATTLE = On Nov. 5 aviation historian and author Mike Lavelle will present the sometimes-madcap story of the first […]
Changing society, globalization and the increasing significance of the media present museums of the twenty-first century with constant new challenges. The role of the museum as a public space demands perpetual redefinition, and communication as […]
Take part in the exciting new programs related to M is for Museum, an exhibition presented by Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In M is for Museum, kids and grown-ups go on an exciting journey […]