Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Eric C. Shiner has been named director of The Andy Warhol Museum. Shiner joined the museum in 2008 as the Milton Fine Curator of Art, and he has [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The Andy Warhol Museum presents The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh an exhibition on view through September 4, 2011. Chitra Ganesh’s artwork combines different visual languages, canons and cultures, including comic books, Bollywood cinema and [Read More]
The San Diego Museum of Art presents El Greco to Dalí: Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection, on view through November 06, 2011. This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century [Read More]
The Carnavalet Museum now have their own website in French, English and Spanish. The oldest of the municipal museums tells the story of Paris from a bygone era (a prehistoric dugout canoe dating from 4600 [Read More]
The board of Kunsthalle Bern announce the appointment of Fabrice Stroun (born 1969) effective from January 1st 2012. Over the last 15 years Fabrice Stroun has been working as an independent curator based in Geneva. [Read More]
Fossils of the Earth’s oldest trees have been donated to the New York State Museum after workers uncovered them during a project to reconstruct the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County. Engineers for the New York [Read More]
The National Gallery of Australia presents Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the national collection, on view 8 July 2011 – 1 April 2012. Out of the West is the first exhibition [Read More]
he Dallas Museum of Art invites families to spend the summer at the DMA with a wide variety of programs for everyone to enjoy. Every year the DMA hosts more than 700 programs for children, [Read More]
Pinakothek der Moderne presents Curvatureromance, the first museum exhibition of sculptures created by the American John Chamberlain over the past three years. Exhibition open 08.07.2011 – 23.10.2011. The sculptor – born in 1927 – came [Read More]
Gift and Simultaneous Exhibitions Opening in October 2011 Mark the 20th Anniversary of the 1991 Catastrophic Oakland-Berkeley Fire The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film [Read More]
A new Elevator Museum has been opened in Long Island City, New York by former elevator repairman and collector Patrick Carrajat. Displaying over 4,000 pieces of elevator paraphernalia including buttons, gauges, meters, etc., the museum [Read More]
The Kunst Haus Wien presents Friedensreich Hundertwasser – The Art of the Green Path Exhibition. On view 7 July to 6 November 2011. With this exhibition KUNST HAUS WIEN honours the artist on whose philosophy [Read More]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and peripatetic art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s [Read More]
Iconic 1963 Painting on Loan from Permanent Collection of Norman Rockwell Museum The Norman Rockwell Museum announces the loan of Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting “The Problem We All Live With,” part of its permanent collection, [Read More]
The ICA is pleased to announce a series of events—entitled Interference—to coincide with the London-wide festival ‘Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture’ in celebration of modern Arab arts, culture, architecture, and design. Ahmad Oustwan [Read More]
The Royal Academy of Arts presents Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century, on view 2 October 2011. The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition dedicated to the birth of modern photography, featuring the [Read More]
Nearly 70 vintage photographs spanning 40 years of Hollywood history Includes portraits of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Loretta Young and Joan Collins previously unexhibited in the UK The National Portrait Gallery [Read More]
The Science Museum of Western Virginia has moved to Tanglewood Mall, reports Wdbj7. “We have our loyal members and loyal guests that came to see us all the time at Center in the Square and [Read More]