Sex, celebrity, violence, and surveillance have been intertwined with photography since the medium’s rise in the 19th century. Those themes permeate Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870, running May 21 to September 18, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The Cartoon Art Museum presents From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley Breathed, an exhibition of original artwork featuring one of the most popular cartoonists of the past quarter-century! To commemorate this exhibition, [Read More]
Free admission, space-related family activities 5 to 9 p.m. The Museum of Flight SEATTLE – On May 5 from 5 to 9 p.m., the Museum will offer space-related activities in observance of Space Day. [Read More]
The 24th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival is coming to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD on Friday, June 17 through Sunday, June 19. The largest event of its kind in [Read More]
The Hunterdon Art Museum hosts it’s 10th Annual Spring Wine & Food Tasting on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Presented by the Hunterdon Art Museum and Chris Cree, Master of Wine and owner of 56 Degree [Read More]
The Boca Raton Museum of Art has opened its spring exhibitions, Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism, running through June 19 and Art for the People: 20th Century Social Realism, running through September 11. Robert [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired 17 items from sculptor Glenna Goodacre from her successful commission to design the Sacagawea dollar coin released in 2000. This donation preserves the creative and [Read More]
Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, announced that the Museum Foundation has received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen [Read More]
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924), who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years,will be [Read More]
The Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site has been established on the campus of GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission which is located in the old African-American Brewer Hospital before desegregation. The site, adjacent to and part [Read More]
(Re)Staging the Art Museum (ed. Tone Hansen, Henie Onstad Art Centre) is released May 25th 2011. The anthology is published by Revolver Publishing. The anthology (Re)Staging the Art Museum discusses the implications of the increasing [Read More]
The new Children’s Museum of Tacoma at 1501 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA has started construction with a planned opening on Jan. 14, 2012. The present museum will close over the Christmas holidays for the move. [Read More]
The TMA Derby Party being held Saturday, May 7, 2011 | 4–8 p.m, is a community outreach and fundraising event to celebrate the Kentucky Derby and raise funds for educational programming. This year’s 137th Derby [Read More]
This exhibition explores the life and work of one of the most fascinating Victorian visionaries – Richard Dadd (1817-1886). Exhibition open from 28 May – 2 October 2011. Works from the Bethlem Art and History [Read More]
Wednesday, May 4, at 11 a.m. – Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art, The 20th and Early 21st Centuries, presented by Janetta Rebold Benton, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University. The final [Read More]
ACM management announced that the Tacoma, Wash., project, built mostly through philanthropic funding, will have its 2012 grand opening on May 19. “We’ve managed to build a museum (which began construction in June 2010) during [Read More]
New research informs Alaska Native basket exhibition In the 1990s, several baskets were discovered near Sitka that scientists carbon dated to nearly 5,000 years ago. The spruce and hemlock baskets were prepared and woven using [Read More]
Music Stands Still’ is a major exhibition at S.M.A.K., showing work by the Argentine artist Jorge Macchi (Buenos Aires, 1963). On view 30.04 through 18.09.2011 Macchi refuses to let himself be pushed into any art [Read More]