A Kingfisher Fort Headdress is reunited with members of Alaska’s Tlingit tribe The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts returned a Kingfisher Fort Headdress (late 19th – early 20th century) to the Lúkaaxh.ádi clan of the [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is currently performing a specialized conservation treatment to ensure the long-term preservation of Thomas Jefferson’s bible, a small handmade book that provides an intimate view of Jefferson’s private [Read More]
Fundación Proa presents Louise Bourgeois The Return of the Repressed on view 19 March–19 June 2011. For the first time in Latin America, Fundación Proa presents in Argentina and Brazil Louise Bourgeois: The Return of [Read More]
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh presents Ragnar Kjartansson: Song through September 4, 2011. Ragnar Kjartansson: Song at Carnegie Museum of Art is Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s first solo museum exhibition in the United [Read More]
The Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition entitled ‘Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Seeing’, from 11 March to 22 May. Sight is the foundation of all visual art, and no artist has focused so centrally on [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the first solo museum exhibition and retrospective of the work of Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt (b. 1941, Washington, D.C.). Surveying the artist’s multifaceted [Read More]
The Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently discovered color, three-dimensional photographs of the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. The photographs by Frederick Eugene Ives (1856–1937) [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art will acquire two landmark paintings from the 1950s and a group of seven sculptures ranging in date from 1954 to 2005 by Cy Twombly, widely regarded as one of today’s [Read More]
The Huntington Museum of Art will welcome artist Sook Jin Jo as the second of two visiting Walter Gropius Master Artists this winter/spring. An exhibition of work by Sook Jin Jo will be on view [Read More]
The Washington State History Museum presents WRAPPED! The Search for the Essential Mummy, on display through September 11, 2011. Wrapped! The Search for the Essential Mummy takes visitors on a journey into the ancient beliefs [Read More]
The Sitka Historical Society and Museum announced the hiring of Jacqueline E. Fernandez as new Curator of Collections and Exhibits. Ms. Fernandez has an advanced museum studies degree from Tufts University in Massachusetts, and completed [Read More]
Art in the Streets will showcase installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists from the graffiti and street art community, including Fab 5 Freddy (New York), Lee Quiñones (New York), Futura (New York), Margaret [Read More]
The role of large predators, such as wolves and cougars, will be explored in a film and discussion at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on Tuesday, March 15, at 7pm. “Lords of Nature: [Read More]
The Museum of Liverpool will open to the public on Tuesday 19 July 2011. This is a significant date as it is exactly 100 years after the museum’s iconic neighbour the Royal Liver Building opened [Read More]
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Glenn Ligon: America on view through JUNE 5, 2011. The Whitney Museum of American Art presents the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), widely regarded [Read More]
The Ocean contains more than 99% of the living space on the planet, yet only 3% of it has been explored. Almost every time scientists visit the deep ocean they discover new species. Catch the [Read More]
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth on view from March 10, 2011. The exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) features more than 50 wearable [Read More]
Dan Cherry and Nguyen Hong My talk of “My Enemy, My Friend – A Story of Reconciliation from the Vietnam War” SEATTLE – Two Vietnam War fighter pilots who once flew combat against each other, [Read More]