The Israel Museum presents Curious Minds. New Approaches in Design an exhibition on view December 16, 2011-April 30, 2012, in the Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art. Maria Blaisse, Dutch, born 1944. Sphere […]
Daily Archives: December 21, 2011
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The Penn Museum presents its 31st annual Chinese New Year Celebration on Saturday, February 4, 2012, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. The day features music and dance performances, martial arts demonstrations, workshops, children’s activities, […]
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum presents Hello Manga a new exhibition on view through March 17, 2012. Since the 1980’s, Japanese comics have been capturing the attention of the American public and inspiring artists and […]
The Guggenheim becomes the first museum to release an exhibition catalogue e-book. As part of the museum’s foray into digital publishing, Guggenheim Publications is not only releasing new e-book titles such as the Cattelan catalogue […]
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn presents Driving America, a brand new, one-of-a-kind automotive experience, open to the public January 29, 2012. Buckminster Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford Museum Centered around an […]
The Art Fund has helped Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums buy Meditation, a 1972 sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth. The sculpture originally belonged to Sir Norman Reid, an artist and former Director of the Tate, […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini an exhibition on view December 21, 2011 – March 18, 2012. The first great age of portraiture in Europe, both north and […]
The Art Institute of Chicago announced that Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Martha Tedeschi, both accomplished Art Institute curators with specialties in earlier prints and drawings and American modern prints and drawings, respectively, have been appointed […]
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) announced that it has acquired two new important paintings for the European collection. Both of these works of art are fractional gifts to the museum from local collector and SAM […]
Theaster Gates, recipient of the 2011–2012 Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship, explores the ways history, place and performance intersect in his new solo exhibition: Theaster Gates: The Listening Room. Opening […]
The Rijksmuseum presents Dutch Winters exhibition at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, on view rom 21 December 2011 to 26 March 2012. The evolution of the 19th-century winter landscape will be displayed by means of eight atmospheric […]
The new octopus at the National Zoo revealed its true identity Saturday when a keeper helped it select its name: Pandora. The octopus had a chance to pick one of four names submitted by the […]