The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art presents the largest retrospective to date of the American artist John McCracken (b. 1934, Berkeley, California. Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico). Exhibition open 22 [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum presents Shield and Storm: 20th Anniversary of the Persian Gulf War on view through June 25, 2011. n the First Persian Gulf War (August 1990-February 1991), [Read More]
The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation brings together eleven works by eleven artists that look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to critically comment on the past and [Read More]
The Rowan Museum opens With These Hands- Black History Exhibit the museum’s latest Black History exhibit on Sunday afternoon, February 13. It will feature handcrafted arts and crafts from local black citizens, past and present. [Read More]
Drawing from material culture, thing theory, anthropology, Museum education, and traditions of storytelling, Object Stories, the Portland Art Museum’s new installation, is an open-ended exploration of the relationship between people and things, the Museum and [Read More]
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (AAHMSNJ) opens three new exhibition on Saturday February 12, 1-3pm. Ralph Hunter’s Pictures of Africa: A Dream Fulfilled Rod Robinson’s Images of Africa Jacqueline Hall-Smith Displays [Read More]
“Tyondai has with great ambition and detail-loving hard work created music that is a mash-up of 20th-century music and has bravely taken an extra step: into the unknown.”– Björk Tyondai Braxton Photo: Grace Villamil Best [Read More]
On Saturday, February 12, the Illinois State Museum will present two free family programs. Celebrate Cultural Diversity! from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Music Around the World Super Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 [Read More]
Baltimore – Director Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum announced today that Dr. Regine Schulz, director of international curatorial affairs and curator of ancient art at the Walters since 2000, has been named executive [Read More]
Saturday, March 12, the Illinois State Museum will host the 13th annual Junior Collectors Day. Collectors between the ages of 8 and 15 are encouraged to share their collection with others and learn techniques for [Read More]
Kunsthallen Brandts presents Bianca Maria Barmen Tableaux of Silence, open 11 February – 7 August 2011. Bianca Maria Barmen will be showing a major solo exhibition at Kunsthallen Brandts. The Swedish artist has a personal [Read More]
Works by contemporary Latino and Native artists draw on traditional Catholic iconography to contemplate the heritage of Spanish colonialism The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) presents Contemporary Coda, a companion installation to Splendors of Faith/Scars [Read More]
A self-portrait by Jack Vettriano will go on show in the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery when it reopens in the autumn of 2011. Jack Vettriano’s painting, The Weight, which has been offered on long-term [Read More]
The Illinois State Museum and Pennsylvania State University recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Geoinformatics Program to develop the “Neotoma Paleoecology Database.” This database includes fossil data for the past 5 [Read More]
MNAC Bucharest presents rchitectures/Dessins/Utopies exhibition works from the Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, Paris on view through 20 April 2011. The Architectures/Dessins/Utopies exhibition presents drawings (collages, drawn interventions) pertaining to architecture by visual artists and [Read More]
Cincinnati, OH – The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), one of the nation’s oldest and most celebrated contemporary art institutions, announced that Susan Berliant has been hired as Chief of Development, a newly created position, and [Read More]
The New Museum presents an exhibition of work by Lynda Benglis on view through 6/19/11. Over the past forty years, Lynda Benglis has developed a distinctive and influential sculptural language. Benglis rose to prominence during [Read More]
Penguin Beach, the Zoo’s brand new flagship exhibit for 2011, will be home to nearly 150 Macaroni and Humboldt penguins when it opens on the 27th of May. The new penguin pool will be four [Read More]