David M. Rubenstein donated $4.5 million to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo to fund the giant panda program for the next five years. In appreciation, the giant panda complex—home to giant pandas Tian Tian (male) and [Read More]
Daily Archives: December 19, 2011
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The National Gallery of Victoria presents In The Steps Of The Buddha on view 17 December 2011–03 June 2012, a remarkable exhibition that showcases the NGV’s outstanding collection of Buddhist art. Japanese Gyōdō mask of [Read More]
SPECIAL EVENTS Highlights of the Collection Tour First Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm and all Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 pm • FREE with general museum admission Experience the UMFA galleries through a [Read More]
The Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona presents Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000, from the Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown an exhibition on view through March 25, 2012. This important and ravishing [Read More]
The Polk Museum of Art presents Hunt Slonem. An Expressive Nature, on view December 17 March 24, 2012 in the Dorothy Jenkins Gallery. Hunt Slonem, Chandelier 1993, Oil on canvas. Contemporary works by New York- [Read More]
The Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends an exhibition on view 20 June 2012 – 16 September 2012. Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, copyright Andy Warhol Foundation The silk screen was the [Read More]
Dallas Contemporary presents ERWIN WURM Beauty Business an exhibition on view 14 April – August 2012. Erwin Wurm, Untitled, 2011 Photo: Ottomura Erwin Wurm, an artist living and working in Vienna, combines various art forms: [Read More]
Dallas Contemporary presents an exhibition featuring New York artist ROB PRUITT, on view 17 December 2011 – 18 March 2012. The exhibition made specifically for Dallas Contemporary will be Pruitt’s first major institutional exhibition in [Read More]
Dallas Contemporary presents DAVID JABLONOWSKI. Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance). Open 17 December 2011 – 18 March 2012. David Jablonowski’s first North American solo exhibition entitled, Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance), [Read More]
The Frick Collection has opened a new gallery—the first major addition to the museum in nearly thirty-five years. Located on the Fifth Avenue side of the historic mansion, it was created by enclosing a covered [Read More]
Museum Folkwang presents Evening of Time – Senores Naturales Yanomami an exhibition on view through 27 May, 2012. Sammlung Baumgarten/Sugai. Yanomami Ethnographica. Geflochtene Korbschalen mit ornamentaler Bemalung, 1979© Museum Folkwang und Lothar Baumgarten. At the [Read More]
The De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam presents Judaism. A World of Stories an exhibition on view 17 December 2011 – 15 April 2012. With more than five hundred objects on display, this exhibition will tell the [Read More]
The Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song, on view 25 January 2012 – 27 May 2012. A ragamala or ‘garland of ragas’ is a set of miniature paintings depicting various [Read More]
The Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague an exhibition on view 15 February 2012 – 27 May 2012. In the spring of 1624 the painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599 [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida presents Ancient Egypt—Art and Magic. Treasures from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art an exhibition on view December 17, 2011 – April 29, 2012. LID FROM AN ANTHROPOID [Read More]
Dulwich Picture Gallery is displaying four of the first series of the Seven Sacraments by Nicholas Poussin (1594–1665): Confirmation, Eucharist, Marriage and Extreme Unction. Housing one of the UK’s finest collections of Poussin’s work, Dulwich [Read More]
On December 15, in the presence of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and more than 700 dignitaries and special guests, Qatar Museums Authority inaugurated the MIA Park, a new cultural destination [Read More]
Tate Liverpool presents Turner, Monet and Twombly paintings in an exhibition on view 22 June – 28 October 2012. Claude Monet Poplars on the Epte 1891 Tate Oil on canvas This ambitious exhibition brings together [Read More]