The Milwaukee Art Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its iconic building, the Quadracci Pavilion, with the exhibition Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee Art Museum, photo: Michael Hicks. [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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The Boise Art Museum presents Comics at the Crossroads, an exhibition on view August 20 – November 27, 2011 For decades comics have largely been viewed as light-hearted action comics and amusing stories told through [Read More]
The Boise Art Museum’s 75th Anniversary exhibition in 2012 is a celebration of the Museum’s Permanent Collection, highlighting over 100 important artworks in a variety of mediums and from both historical and contemporary periods. The [Read More]
kestnergesellschaft presents Daniel Richter | 10001nights, on view 3 September–6 November 2011. Daniel Richter (*1962, lives and works in Berlin) is one of Germany’s leading contemporary painters. He has made a name for himself with [Read More]
The 20th Annual Labor Day Parade, co-sponsored by the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark and the Borough of Haledon, is scheduled for Sunday, September 4th, 2011, and will step-off at 1:30 PM. This year’s [Read More]
The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) has announced a $10 million grant from Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his family, that will be used to establish the “Center for Innovation” at the [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass, which features more than 45,000 objects from 35 centuries of glass art and history, has released a new mobile app with information about its collection and related glassmaking techniques. The [Read More]
New Photography 2011: Zhang Dali, Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, and Viviane Sassen The Museum of Modern Art announces the 26th annual New Photography exhibition, running September 27, 2011, through January 16, [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery presents Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter on view through through October 14, 2012. This exhibition displays the diversity of contemporary Asian American identity through the groundbreaking work of seven [Read More]
The Foundry Art Centre is hosting a special Family Culture Days Kickoff event on Sunday, August 28, 2011 from 1:00 until 7:00 pm. PNC Arts Alive is presenting sponsor. The Family Culture Days Kickoff event [Read More]
More than 250,000 people have visited the Museum of Liverpool since it opened four weeks ago, equivalent to the capacities of Anfield or Goodison Park 5 to 6 times over and more than half the [Read More]
The OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of the He Xianning Art Museum presents Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art, open 10 September–10 November 2011.It’s the latest project in OCAT Programme for Emerging Art Practitioners 2011, following [Read More]
If you own a NFC enabled phone, then make sure you take full advantage of this cutting-edge technology by tapping the tags around the museums to help you make the most of your visit. NFC [Read More]
A retrospective of Carl Beam (Ojibwe, 1943-2004) that includes many of the artist’s epic works will open Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav [Read More]
“9/11: A Uniform Response” runs from Sept. 9, 2011 to Jan. 16, 2012 To mark the 10th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, The Associated Press and The New York City Police Museum [Read More]
The Museum of Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents Elevated Perspective: Paintings by Joellyn Duesberry, an overview of a 50-year career of plein-air painting, in the El Pomar and Steiner Family Galleries. On view through [Read More]
The Academy Art Museum presents Focus On Flowers: The Photography of Richard Paul Weiblinger, on view through AUGUST 28, 2011. Richard Paul Weiblinger is an avid nature photographer and his favorite topics include macro images, [Read More]
The Academy Art Museum presents Modernist Inclinations: The Art of Jan Matulka, on view OCTOBER 16, 2011. In the 1920s and 30s, Jan Matulka (1890 1972) was a leader of New York art world promoting [Read More]