In March 2011, The Bass Museum of Art initiated the first of three, one-year curatorial fellowships focusing on contemporary art thanks to generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part [Read More]
Daily Archives: December 22, 2011
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Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Mur Murs by Agnes Varda film screening on January 6th, 2012 6:00 PM – 7:20 PM. Agnès Varda’s love letter to Los Angeles’ ephemeral, idiosyncratic, and startling street murals captures [Read More]
The South Street Seaport Museum’s galleries will re-open January 26. The South Street Seaport Museum When it reopens, the museum will use 16 of its 21 galleries; the rest will be used for school programs. [Read More]
The New York State Museum will celebrate the holidays with a series of interactive programs designed to educate, entertain and engage visitors of all ages December 27-30. All activities are free and will be held [Read More]
Only Three Weeks Remain to See Robotic Dinosaurs and Life-Size T. Rex Cast, Free with Museum Admission DENVER – The Denver Museum of Nature & Science invites visitors to experience T. Rex Encounter before it [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents “THE MUSEUM PRESENTS ITSELF: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection” an exhibition on view through Sunday 30 December 2012 in the Herta and Paul Amir Building. Reuven Rubin, [Read More]
The tens of thousands of objects in the Museum’s decorative arts collection include hundreds of teapots in ceramics and silver. These teapots embrace several hundred years of Western history and demonstrate the endless design possibilities [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus. Los Angeles, 1945–1980, on view December 20, 2011–May 6, 2012. Los Angeles, 1964, Gary Winogrand. Gelatin silver print. 9 x 13 7/16 in. © 1984 The Estate [Read More]
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Aspen‐based People’s Press are publishing a first‐person account of the historic Ice Age fossil find near Snowmass Village. Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the [Read More]
The Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York presents Vivian Maier: photographs from the Maloof Collection on view December 15, 2011 – January 28, 2012. Vivian Maier, Howard Greenberg Gallery An eccentric nanny from Chicago, who often [Read More]
Dia Art Foundation presents Opus + One, the first comprehensive museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of Paris-based artist Jean-Luc Moulène. On view December 17, 2011 – December 31, 2012. Commissioned by [Read More]
The New York State Museum presents From the Collections an exhibition on view Sunday, April 1, 2012. The New York State Museum traces its origins to an 1836 survey of the state’s geology, plants, and [Read More]
The National Galleries of Scotland announce a major new acquisition, Rome from Monte Mario (1820) by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). This stunning watercolour has recently been allocated to the Scottish National Gallery through the Acceptance in [Read More]
The Queensland Art Gallery presents Eugene von Guerard. Nature Revealed a major retrospective of the work of Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901), one of Australia’s most renowned colonial landscape painters, on view from 17 December 2011 [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) announced that the Board of Governors has appointed a 14-member search committee tasked with finding the museum’s next Melvin and Bren Simon Director & CEO. Maxwell L. Anderson will [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art presents a special installation of three of Mark Rothko’s paintings made for the so-called Seagram Mural Project, timed to coincide with the presentation of John Logan’s play Red at Arena [Read More]
The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s northern Manhattan branch dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—will be open to the public on two Mondays this coming holiday season: December 26 [Read More]
The Museum’s Education Department will be offering “Winter Family Fun” activities during the week between Christmas and New Year’s – December 26 through Jan. 1. Drop-in aerospace programs include “Robot Garage” – where families can [Read More]