Three fighter pilots share their stories about air combat over Europe SEATTLE – The latest in a continuing series of American Fighter Ace panel discussions at The Museum of Flight is Feb. 12 at 2 [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Paris, The BNP Paribas Foundation and BNP Paribas Australia are supporting the restoration of a masterpiece by Nicolas Poussin, part of the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. As part of a program [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has launched its 150th anniversary year, a major milestone in the history of Australia’s first public art gallery. Victorian Premier and Minister for the Arts, Ted Baillieu, NGV Council [Read More]
The National Civil War Museum announced it will open a series of year-long exhibits in recognition of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. In January of each year beginning in 2011 through 2015, each [Read More]
The American Folk Art Museum will dramatically transform the Park Avenue Armory’s historic 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall with the installation of 650 red and white American quilts, all of which are on loan from [Read More]
The Newark Museum presents Posing Beauty African American Images From the 1890s to the Present on view through 04.28.2011. Posing Beauty explores the ways in which African American beauty has been represented in the media [Read More]
The Children’s Museum, Seattle is celebrating National Wear Red Day by offering free admission* to children wearing red on Friday, February 4th. On National Wear Red Day children ages 10 months to 10 years old [Read More]
On Feb. 2, 2011, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab, the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work in the U.S. Using familiar [Read More]
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces two concurrent exhibitions of photography. “In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt” and “Paths through the Global City: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien” open February 2, [Read More]
Kunsthalle Bern presents Moshekwa Langa Marhumbini – In Another Time open 5 February – 27 March 2011. Moshekwa Langa’s art is amongst the most difficult to pigeonhole. “People can’t reconcile my idiosyncratic views with their [Read More]
The long list of museums competing for the ‘Museum of the Year’ accolade has been selected by an independent panel of judges, chaired this year by broadcaster and former cabinet minister Michael Portillo. The Art [Read More]
The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art presents Rabih Mroué: The Inhabitants of Images on view February 5 – April 23, 2011. Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué creates performance-based video installations that examine the powerful influence that [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media February 16–28, 2011. Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, running February 16 through [Read More]
The Portland Museum of Art presents John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury open June 23, 2011 – October 10, 2011. John Marin sought Maine as a subject—its islands, mountains, beaches, and rocky shores—from 1917 onward. However, [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art will be closed today, February 2, due to the Level 3 snow emergency declared in Lucas County. The Toledo Museum of Art was founded April 18, 1901. The seven incorporators [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Realistic Perfection: The Making of Oriental Ceramic Art on view March 12–June 4, 2011. In 1889, William Walters commissioned Louis Prang & Co., the foremost practitioners of the art of [Read More]
The Arizona State Museum hosts the 13th Annual Southwest Indian Art Fair, Saturday, February 19, 10 a.m.–5 p.m – Sunday, February 20, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Meet 200 Southwest Native artists, many of them award-winning. Talk [Read More]
The Mauritshuis has acquired the exceptional history painting, Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown by Jan Steen (1626-1679), from a private collection. Jan Steen (1626-1679), Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown, c.1670, Canvas, 78 x79 cm. Royal Picture Gallery [Read More]