This special exhibition marks the completion of an extensive project to conserve the Mead Art Museum’s collection of thangka (pronounced “tan-kah”)—scroll paintings of Buddhist figures. So fragile that they have remained largely inaccessible to scholars [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The Chinese Arts Centre presents EVERYTHING MUST GO A new project by Foreign Investment, on view 5 August–17 September 2011. Everything Must Go is a playful new project by the artist group Foreign Investment. This [Read More]
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge will present a stunning collection of precious decorative arts never before seen in the UK – the treasures of the Hapsburg Emperors, in an exhibition on view 6 August 2011 [Read More]
Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art Presents Swalif: Qatari Art Between Momory and Modernity, on view 14 August to 29 October 2011. This exhibition celebrates more than twenty of Qatar’s most influential artists and four [Read More]
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) presents A Walk in the Wild: Continuing John Muir’s Journey, on view August 6, 2011, through January 22, 2012, in the Museum’s Great Hall. John Muir’s experience in the [Read More]
The transformed Gallery of California Natural Sciences themed Hotspot California: Bringing Dioramas to Life Through Community Voices will feature innovative displays about California places that exemplify the state’s great biological and geological diversity as well [Read More]
The 8th Hiroshima Art Prize THE ROAD OF HOPE YOKO ONO 2011 30 July–16 October 2011 In 1989 the city of Hiroshima, first place in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, established the Hiroshima [Read More]
The Walker Art Center presents Pedro Reyes Baby Marx on view August 11–November 27, 2011. The Walker presents the latest phase and first US exhibition of Baby Marx, an ongoing project by Mexican artist Pedro [Read More]
The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum hosts Mark Twain’s Hannibal: The Clemens Conference, August 11-13, 2011. Before he became “Mark Twain” in Virginia City, Nevada in 1863, Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s literary path was firmly [Read More]
Longest-standing director in museum history; his tenure includes post-graduate schools, major acquisitions, alliances, and national honors Dr. Anthony Bannon, director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, announced today he will be [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago presents a presentation of work by Anne Elizabeth Moore Exhibition on view August 6-28, 2011. Anne Elizabeth Moore: Garment Work, 2010. Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Germany. Photo courtesy of the [Read More]
The Sheldon Museum of Artalong with a number of statewide partners, is producing a new publication that will tell the story of the visual arts in Nebraska. This magazine, to be released twice a year, [Read More]
George Eastman House presents The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, on view from October 1, 2011 through February 19, 2012 in the Brackett–Clark Gallery. All eyes will be on George Eastman House [Read More]
The University of Nebraska State Museum’s Nebraska Archaeological Survey is conducting further archaeological investigations at several prehistoric sites this summer at Hugh Butler Lake in Frontier County. Additional funds were granted recently to continue this [Read More]
The Fuller Craft Museum presents a Lighter Hand: The Glass Drawings of Michael Janis, on view August 6, 2011 – November 6, 2011. The exhibition features the recent work of the virtuosic Washington, DC-based artist, [Read More]
The George Eastman House presents Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera an exhibition on view through September 18, 2011 in the Brackett–Clark Gallery. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) adopted photography in the mid-1930s as a tool to bring [Read More]
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents Chelpa Ferro Visual Sound, on view to January 8, 2012. Chelpa Ferro is a Brazilian collective comprised of artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Sergio Mekler that was formed in [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery presents Road to 2012 : A Local Story an exhibition of striking new photographs of people from East London community groups who are working with the National Portrait Gallery opens on [Read More]