The National Gallery of Australia presents Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands on view until 29 May 2011. The first Solomon Islands exhibition in Australia, Varilaku tells a story of both beauty and aggression, [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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This spring, the Hirshhorn provides the opportunity to view some of the best in contemporary film and the chance to meet celebrated filmmakers and animators as they introduce screenings of their award-winning work and provide [Read More]
The Hirshhorn is to be the premiere East Coast venue for the first U.S. retrospective of work by noted postwar abstract painter Blinky Palermo (German, b. Leipzig, 1943; d. Maldives, 1977). Although the artist’s reputation [Read More]
With its major spring show, Deichtorhallen Hamburg is once again bringing stars of the international art world to Hamburg. Gilbert & George (born 1943 and 1942) have long since been acknowledged icons of contemporary art. [Read More]
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents a retrospective of work by André Kertész on view 26 February–15 May 2011. André Kertész—who was born in Budapest in 1894 and died in New York in 1985—was a supporter of Brassaï, [Read More]
This conference aims to tackle key questions around the museum as an institutional entity and contemporary art as an art historical category. Speakers will provide an overview of developments across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, [Read More]
The Fort Worth Stockyards Museum is carrying out interior renovation to it’s 1902 Exchange Building, the home of the Stockyards Museum. The work started February 7th, 2011. The Museum has been re-arranged while the work [Read More]
The Canada Aviation and Space Museum has opened it’s new multimedia and learning centre. This space is more than the sum of its parts. It is a state of the art Theatre, lecture hall, event [Read More]
Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition, The Subject is Light: The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings, opening March 19, 2011 and on view through August 21, 2011. The exhibition [Read More]
Imperial War Museum North will be shedding new light on the role played by women at sea during the Second World War as it launches a new film to mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday [Read More]
The Massachusetts General Hospital has begun construction of a landmark museum of medical innovation, scheduled to be completed in late 2011. Following several years of planning and coordination led by the MGH History Committee, the [Read More]
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has received a $90,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Renewal Fund (AARF). The museum will use the money to fund the position of assistant curator and to [Read More]
Almost three years after disaster struck the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML), plans have been finalized for the historic relocation of the flood damaged building currently located at 30 Sixteenth Ave. SW. [Read More]
The Reno County Museum has announced plans to visit the smaller communities in Reno County and establishing small, temporary exhibits highlighting items unique to those towns. Museum Collections Through exhibits and programs, the Museum uses [Read More]
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History presents Black Mesa an exhibit Opening March 5. Oklahoma boasts the fourth highest biodiversity of any of the 50 United States. The Sam Noble Museum’s Hall of [Read More]
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has reached agreements with the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District (SWSD) and the State Historical Preservation Office that will allow excavation crews to return to Ziegler Reservoir in [Read More]
The Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has just soft launched HipHopHoF.TV and HipHopHoFMuseum.com community website. The site will be the home of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame, and feature its own Hip Hop [Read More]
A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or “thunder-thighs” after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica [Read More]