The Archives of American Art has contributed 285 digitized photographs from the Federal Art Project’s Photographic Division Collection to Wikimedia Commons. Most of the photographs date between 1935 and 1942, the active years of the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
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“Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon” The Museum of Flight SEATTLE – On Oct. 8 at 2 p.m., Apollo astronaut Al Worden will be at the Museum to lecture about [Read More]
World War II ace was great supporter of aviation history and Museum SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight lost a great friend, supporter, and enthusiastic member of our Board of Trustees this morning with the [Read More]
Detroit’s architecture, neighborhoods, people and auto industry are among the subjects included in Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000–2010, on view Oct. 16, 2011–April 8, 2012 at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). The exhibition is organized [Read More]
Tate and Guaranty Trust Bank announced that Elvira Dyangani Ose has been appointed Curator International Art at Tate Modern, generously supported by Guaranty Trust Bank. Born in 1974 in Cordoba, Spain, Dyangani Ose, is a [Read More]
Gerhard Richter Painting, Corinna Belz, Germany 2011, 97 min In conjunction with Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate Modern presents this acclaimed new documentary by filmmaker Corinna Belz, to whom Richter granted access to his studio in [Read More]
The Oceanside Museum of Art presents Cathy Breslaw A Matter Of Space an exhibition on view October 22, 2011 – February 12, 2012 in the The Gerald and Inez Grant Parker Gallery. Informed by the [Read More]
Exhibitions on view 6 October 2011 – 26 February 2012. The Wellcome Collection’s autumn exhibition programme explores the extraordinary in the everyday with two shows: Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings, the first major display of [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents an Installation by conceptual artist Lee Mingwei on view October 5, 2011–January 22, 2012. Lee Mingwei: “The Moving Garden,” an installation comprising a forty-five-foot-long granite table with one hundred freshly cut [Read More]
The Hudson River Museum presents Elihu Vedder: Voyage on the Nile an exhibition on view through January 8, 2012. American painter Elihu Vedder journed up the Nile from December 1889 to April 1890 and recorded [Read More]
The Hudson River Museum presents Get Your Gears Turning…. The Curious World of Patent Models on view through January 1, 2012. “Problem solving with American ingenuity” is seen in more than 50 intricately crafted working [Read More]
The Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science presents “Mars Update” at the Koch Planetarium. The Mars Update planetarium show will be presented at 1:00 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday from August 27 – November [Read More]
The Byzantine and Christian Museum presents “Within/Beyond Borders. The Collection of the European Bank of Investment” a temporary exhibition: on view until 30 October 2011. The exhibition theme treats the evolution of the European art [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part II, on view October 5–23, 2011. Beginning October 5, the second installment of the film series Mapping [Read More]
The Frick Collection presents Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition an exhibition on view October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Sleeping Peasants, Paris or San Raphaël, August 1919. Gouache, watercolor, and pencil [Read More]
The Tate Museum Group, who recently announced a major shift in their approach to their online presence by a move to the Drupal CMS, have selected London based Axis12 Limited to deliver the technical architecture [Read More]
Through to an agreement with the Fundación Selgas-Fagalde in Asturias The Museo del Prado will be exhibiting Goya’s first documented painting for a period of six years Francisco de Goya, The victorious Hannibal, 1771 The [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has acquired a stunning example of portraiture by Dutch Master Frans Hals with the purchase of Family Portrait in a Landscape. Scholar Gregory Martin referred to the painting as [Read More]