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 [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
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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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
With this gift, the museum reaffirms its position as a leading center for the study of Russian art and enamel making Baltimore —T he Walters Art Museum announces today the gift of enameled Russian silver [Read More]
Daylong symposium marks conclusion of special exhibition Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912 The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) hosts a major one-day symposium on early twentieth-century art in Scandinavia. Held in conjunction with the [Read More]
The Newport Art Museum presents Andrew Nixon. I Am Here and You Are Not an exhibition on view January 7 – March 11, 2012. Reception: Friday, February 3, 5 – 7 pm. Andrew Nixon, The [Read More]
The symposium begins on Thursday, February 9, at 6:30 pm, with a lecture by Massimo Scolari, the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture. This will be followed by [Read More]
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University is pleased to present “The Epic and the Exotic: 19th-century Academic Realism from the Dahesh Museum of Art”, on view from January 14th through April [Read More]
The Northern Art Prize was founded in 2006 by Prize Director and Founder and Co-Director of PSL [Project Space Leeds], Pippa Hale, in collaboration with design and communications agency Logistik Ltd and Leeds City Council. [Read More]
The University of California, Davis, has received a $10 million gift to name a new art museum that will serve as a teaching and cultural resource for the region and provide opportunities to share the [Read More]
Capitoline Museum presents Leonardo e Michelangelo. Capolavori della grafica e studi romani an exhibition of sixty-six drawings that aims to provide a detailed comparison between two great masters of the Italian Renaissance. Exhibition on view [Read More]
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea presents TELL ME TELL ME. Australian and Korean Art 1976–2011, on view 19 February 2012. This is the second stage of a two-part cultural exchange of art and [Read More]
In 2012 Haus der Kunst will mark the 75th anniversary of its public inauguration in the summer of 1937. It will do so with an exhibition that will present an extensive reflection on and overview [Read More]
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]
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]