The Japanese American National Museum presents Folding Paper. The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, an exhibition on view March 10 – August 26, 2012. Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami will be the first major [Read More]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles presents Common Ground. The Heart of Community an ongoing exhibition. Incorporating hundreds of objects, documents and photographs collected by the National Museum, this exhibition chronicles 130 years [Read More]
Six more sport parachutists will be inducted into the National Skydiving Museum Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Eloy, Arizona the weekend of November 9, 2012. Parachute enthusiasts from around the world will attend. [Read More]
A stunning and highly complex painting composed of separate oak panels, The Mystic Lamb of 1432 by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, known as the Ghent Altarpiece, recently underwent much-needed emergency conservation within the Villa [Read More]
The Canadian War Museum is lending an authentic historical touch to Mirvish Productions’ staging of War Horse in Toronto. Over 30 of the Museum’s First World War-era cavalry and veterinary artifacts will be on display [Read More]
The Field Museum in Chicago presents Genghis Khan, an exhibition on view Feb. 24 through Sept. 3, 2012). Genghis Khan showcases the largest single collection of 13th century Mongolian artifacts ever assembled, and takes visitors [Read More]
The Laguna Art Museum presentsHugo Zayas. Mi Obra, an exhibition on view February 26-April 29, 2012. With a mixture of passion and bold energy, Mexican-American artist Victor Hugo Zayas (b. 1961) presents his expressionistic paintings [Read More]
The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design presents Painting Air. Spencer Finch a major exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch, on view February 24 through July 29, 2012. Installation view of Painting Air: [Read More]
The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History announces Adventures in Oceanography. Exploring the Deep Blue Sea, a mini camp March 12 through March 16, 2012 highlighting the Museum’s current exhibition, Getting to the Core: the [Read More]
The Oceanside Museum of Art presents Ghost Fleet. John Taylor an exhibition on view February 25 – April 8, 2012. Oceanside Museum of Art Striking in their detail, John Taylor’s miniature reproductions evoke the organic [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the release of its collection dataset, which will broaden access and allow for increased analysis of the museum’s object holdings. Basic museum data for more than 60 percent [Read More]
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to [Read More]
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro presents Telling Tales: Narratives from the 1930s, an exhibition on view Feb 25, 2012 – May 13, 2012. Edmund Lewandowski, “Factories”, 1936, watercolor [Read More]
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) presents Nedko Solakov. All in Order, with Exceptions, an exhibition on view 25 February–3 June 2012. Nedko Solakov (b. 1957, Cherven Briag) is one of Bulgaria’s internationally best [Read More]
The University of Richmond Museums presents Ti-Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman, and Modern Science, an exhibition on view from February 23 to June 29, 2012, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from [Read More]
Women Fly! is an annual event that gives young women the rare opportunity to meet dozens of exceptional women in aerospace professions. The two-day, March 2-3 program includes Friday networking activities for young women and [Read More]
New images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft show that the moon’s crust is being slightly stretched, forming small valleys—at least in some small areas. High-resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera provide [Read More]
The Hamburger Kunsthalle presents Louise Bourgeois. Passage dangereux, an exhibition on view 10 February–17 June 2012. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most important and influential artists of our time. In celebration of the [Read More]