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]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
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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]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recently unveiled a photographic portrait of food pioneer Alice Waters, founder of the Chez Panisse Restaurant and Cafe, the Edible Schoolyard and champion of the Slow Food movement. Now it [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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, [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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, [Read More]
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 [Read More]