The Bowes Museum presents Vivienne Westwood Shoes: A World Wide Exhibition on view 10th June- 10th July 2011. This exhibition celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, focusing on her designs [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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New York’s 33rd annual museum mile festival takes place on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, 6pm – 9pm, rain or shine, with ‘Free Museum Admission and Outdoor Art Activites’ . One day a year, for the [Read More]
This summer, experience three thousand years of Chinese art and culture in five exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This exhibition series, titled the Summer of CHINA, is part of a year-long celebration honoring the [Read More]
Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life,a major exhibition on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 11 through October 9, 2011, in the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries (G 182–184). Focuses on six highly influential [Read More]
The Childrens Museum of Phoenix marks it’s 2nd Birthday on June 14 by celebrating everything “2”. Visitors to the Museum on Monday, June 14th will enjoy: • 2-for-1 admission (admission is only $9 for every [Read More]
The exhibition is on view in the Main Library’s second and third floor galleries through June 25, 2011 during regular Library hours. Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult [Read More]
The opportunity to buy an affordable boat and support a good cause will be at the annual Boat Auction held on Saturday, September 3 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels. The [Read More]
On view from February 15-April 22, 2012, the second New Museum “Generational” triennial will examine the practices of emerging artists born since the mid-1970s. Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public [Read More]
First Major Pissarro Exhibition to Focus on the Personal Ties and Social Ideas of the Famous Impressionist Master The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present a new exploration of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro [Read More]
The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents an exhibition of photographs by André Kertész. Exhibition oipen 11 June to 11 September 2011. Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing a grand retrospective of over 300 photographs by André Kertész, who was born [Read More]
The Laguna Art Museum presents Noguchi: California Legacy. Exhibition open June 12-October 2, 2011. Isamu Noguchi is an internationally celebrated Japanese-American artist and designer. Noguchi: California Legacy is comprised of three parts that examine the [Read More]
The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, on view June 10-September 4, 2011. Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun (b. 1944) began work on his series of Aggregations in the 1990s. Today, he is recognized [Read More]
In 1952 Henri Matisse was asked to create a stained-glass window for the mausoleum of art collector Albert Lasker, and he took on the project with enthusiasm. His full-scale maquette was made with shapes cut [Read More]
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Man Ray | Lee Miller Partners in Surrealism. On view June 11, 2011 to December 4, 2011. l’Heure de l’Observatoire – les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers), 1964 [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art has acquired a major group of works from the collection of exhibition organizer, publisher, and dealer Seth Siegelaub, a key supporter of artists working in dematerialized art practices in the [Read More]
The Philbrook Museum of Art presents Rauschenberg at Gemini an exhibition of works by Robert Rauschenberg on view JUNE 12 – SEPTEMBER 11, 2011. For more than three decades Robert Rauschenberg created works at Gemini [Read More]
From June 14, 2011, to January 8, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections. The exhibition investigates major trends in U.S. and European art in a singular [Read More]
The Cantor Arts Center has deaccessioned two 19th-century American paintings from its collection: Charles Christian Nahl’s Saturday Night in the Mines, 1856, and Crossing the Plains,1856. Both works are oil on canvas. Ownership of the [Read More]