The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Rome, Naples, Venice: Italian Masterworks from the BAM/PFA Collection, on view uly 6, 2011 – October 15, 2011. When BAM/PFA was founded in the mid-1960s, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Rare specimens provide insights into our solar system’s infancy In celebration of the arrival of NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the world’s most comprehensive collection of meteorites [Read More]
The “Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels” exhibition attracted a record-breaking 172,000 visitors during its 20-week run at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. On view from Feb. 18 through July [Read More]
Artist loans large selection of his work to the museum Graphic designer, illustrator and author of children’s books Dick Bruna (1927) has agreed a long-term loan of a selection of his work to the Print [Read More]
The National Gallery in London presents Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 on view 6 July – 2 October 2011. Detail from Sassetta, ‘The Funeral of Saint Francis’, 1437-44. As part of a new [Read More]
The Spanish State has awarded one of its highest decorations, the Order of Civil Merit, to Enrique Juncosa, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art since 2003. The award is being made by King [Read More]
The Arkansas Arts Center will host In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America, a groundbreaking exhibition that pairs the work of American icon Norman Rockwell with images by award-winning photojournalist Kevin Rivoli. In Search of Norman [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is hosting a Farmers Market on Tuesdays, June 7-October 25, 2011, 7 am – 3 pm. This summer, the MCA hosts the City of Chicago Farmers Market on its [Read More]
The Arkansas Arts Center presents Currents in Contemporary Art, an ongoing exhibition. Currents in Contemporary Art features works of art from the permanent collection of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation. The installation focuses on commonalities [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is hosting a series of public satellite broadcasts with a multinational team of researchers, engineers and archaeologists in Peru on the origins and engineering of the Inka [Read More]
The Julia Stoschek Collection presents selected works in a newly designed exhibition, on view July 2011 – summer 2012. The show features 44 works by 35 artists in all, including many that have never been [Read More]
The Ulster Museum presents Landscape photographs by Robert Thompson on view through Sunday 4 September. The high Mournes, Co. Down, at sunset, by Robert Thompson For this exhibition, 14 stunning and evocative panoramic views of [Read More]
The Smithsonian Archives of American Art is hosting it’s annual benefit on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Honoring artist Cindy Sherman, art historian Dore Ashton, and the leadership of Ann L. Gund, Jo Carole Lauder, Wendy [Read More]
The Museum The Kennedys presents BEHIND THE MASK – Portraits by Martin Schoeller. Exhibition on view July 06 – July 31, 2011. With the beginning of the SHOWROOM DAYS BERLIN, the Museum THE KENNEDYS will [Read More]
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) announced it will provide residents of cities participating in the museum’s Inside|Out program with four free general admissions to a DIA Family Sunday. Inside|Out brings high quality reproductions of [Read More]
American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, on view July 1 through September 18, 2011, traces the evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences [Read More]
The New Orleans Museum of Art unveils a new large scale, site-specific installation by the internationally renowned artist Swoon. This installation, entitled Thalassa, is named for and inspired by the Greek goddess of the sea. [Read More]
Visitors to the Cantor Arts Center now benefit from the loan of two early 20th-century paintings by Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), a major figure in American art. The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University [Read More]