A centenary appeal launched earlier this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the Friends of Nationalmuseum has raised a total of SEK 10.66 million. The donations have funded the purchase of a painting by [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
New York’s Frick Collection is home to one of the most important groups of Renaissance enamels in the world, ranking alongside those of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, The Wallace Collection and the Victoria [Read More]
CAM Raleigh announced it has received awards in both the design (Merit) and preservation (Tower) catagories of the 2011 AIA Design Awards. AIA Design Awards – Merit Each year AIA celebrates the achievements of architects [Read More]
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents Laura Horelli Hannah-Höch-Förderpreis 2011. Open 29 November 2011–20 January 2012 Laura Horelli, born in Helsinki in 1976, studied at the Kuvataideakatemia in Helsinki and with Thomas Bayrle at Frankfurt’s Städelschule. [Read More]
NASA Solar System Ambassador to talk about Cassini-Huygens spacecraft and its seven years orbiting Saturn SEATTLE – A Dec. 3 lecture by NASA Solar System Ambassador Dr. Ron Hobbs looks at the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft’s seven [Read More]
The Biggs Museum of American Art has launched the public phase of “The New Biggs” capital campaign, the final push for a $1.86 million fundraising initiative begun in 2010 to expand the museum and renovate [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrates Menominee Nation Cultural Day, with traditional song, dance, drumming and storytelling Saturday, Dec. 10, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For thousands of years, the Menominee [Read More]
The Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford Presents Clouet to Claude – French Master Drawings an exhibition on view through 23 December 2011. While the Ashmolean Museum is celebrating the French artist Claude Lorrain, the [Read More]
The Smithsonian Latino Center continues to document Latino presence in Washington, D.C., with “Celebrando las Raíces, Creando Comunidad: Una Noche de Música y Poesía Bilingüe” (Celebrating Roots, Creating Community: An Evening of Bilingual Music and [Read More]
The Biggs Museum of American Art presents Delaware By Hand. Masterworks 2011 an exhibition on view through February 26, 2012. Every two years, Delaware By Hand (DBH) hosts a membership-wide juried competition in order to [Read More]
The Dayton Visual Arts Center present Bart Vargas. Alchemy of Art an exhibition on view November 4-December 30, 2011. Bart Vargas, Dayton Visual Arts Center Artist Statement – My artwork is about process, form and [Read More]
The 27th General Assembly elected the following twelve new members to serve on the International Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage) (ICCROM) Council for the period 2011 – 2015: [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents Storytelling in Japanese Art an exhibition on view November 19, 2011–May 6, 2012. Kaihō Yūchiku (1654-1728), The Tale of Drunken Demon (Shuten Dōji Emaki), Edo period [Read More]
The Dayton Visual Arts Center, announced the appointment of Eva Buttacavoli as its new executive director. Beginning December 1, 2011, Buttacavoli will work closely with DVAC’s board and members to carry out DVAC’s mission to [Read More]
The exhibition Time and Memory brings together two contemporary Swedish artists, Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand, whose works have never before been shown in a London institution. From the late 1980s, both at home and [Read More]
The board of BAC – Baltic Art Center announce the appointment of Lívia Páldi as its new director from December 1st, 2011. Born in Budapest, Lívia Páldi was previously the chief curator of the Műcsarnok [Read More]
In 2012/2013, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain will host the next edition of project room @ aquarium, an artist-in-residency programme based in the so-called “Aquarium,” a 175 sqm steel and glass pavilion. This international [Read More]
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory launch delayed to Nov. 26, Museum scrubs early opening SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight’s Nov. 25 public broadcast of the launch of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft has been [Read More]