The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford presents The English Prize. The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour, an exhibition on view 17th May 2012 to 27th August 2012. In January 1779, The [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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The Ashmolean Museum presents Unwrapped. The Story of a Child Mummy, an exhibition on view to 4th March 2012. Ashmolean Museum of Art and ArchaeologyThe Museum hosts an installation of contemporary work by artist Angela [Read More]
The Gemeentemuseum Den Alexander Calder The Great Discovery, an exhibition on view 11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Thanks to a prestigious Turing Art Grant, which made this important exhibition possible, [Read More]
What makes an airplane fly? How does a spacecraft stay in orbit? Why does a balloon float in the air? These and many other questions are answered in the How Things Fly website, a companion [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum presents Guercino. A Passion for Drawing – The Collections of Sir Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum, an exhibition on view 11th February 2012 to 15th April 2012. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri An [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford presents Yakusha-e. Kabuki prints, a continuing tradition, an exhibition on view until 4th March 2012. The Ashmolean’s special display in the Eastern Art Paintings gallery is Yakusha-e: Kabuki Prints – [Read More]
CINCINNATI – On August 24, 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted for the first time in 1,700 years. The force of the explosion was ten times more powerful than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. [Read More]
Cincinnati Museum Center president and CEO, Douglass W. McDonald has been appointed as a member of the Finance and Resources Committee for The International Council of Museums (ICOM). The International Council of Museums is the [Read More]
SEATTLE, – The Museum has taken delivery of the first large artifact for its new Space Gallery – a Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft. Charles Simonyi (left) shakes hands with The Museum of Flight Senior Curator Dan [Read More]
Members of the Frederick Douglass Day committee recently gathered at the Talbot County Courthouse in preparation for the second Frederick Douglass Day celebration, set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum [Read More]
The Speed Art Museum presents Renoir to Chagall. Paris and the Allure of Color, an exhibition on view February 3 – May 6. Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917,)DETAIL Dancer Adjusting Her Shoe, 1885. Charcoal and pastel [Read More]
International Museum of Women ( IMOW ) presents MAMA. Motherhood Around the Globe, an online exhibition on view at http://mama.imow.org/mamatobe. The exhibition will showcase original creative works, including art, film, music, photography, essays and interviews, [Read More]
Kevin Salatino, 55, director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, has been named the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of Art Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. [Read More]
SEATTLE – On the eve of the 50th anniversary of astronaut John Glenn’s historic orbital flight, historian Roger Launius’ Feb. 19 presentation at the Museum will reconsider the Project Mercury space program and the individuals [Read More]
As its way to celebrate Black History Month this year, the Stax Music Academy (SMA) is presenting an original, Broadway-style musical production, “Welcome to Soulsville,” on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at the Cannon Center for [Read More]
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) and the American West Center (AWC) at the University of Utah are pleased to present At Work: Prints from the Great Depression, an [Read More]
STAR TREK actor Robert Picardo beamed into the Saint Louis Science Center last Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2012 and provided fans with an inside glimpse into his popular role as “The Doctor” on STAR [Read More]
FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE in collaboration with the George Eastman House (Rochester, USA), home of the archive of that name, is presenting a retrospective of the work of the American photographer Lewis Hine (Wisconsin, 1874–New York, 1940), [Read More]