The Marston House Museum in Balboa Park is displaying redwood furniture designed a century ago by Irving J. Gill, San Diego’s foremost modernist architect, at the recently reopened Museum and Gardens. Marston House Museum A [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich opens Women. Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, an exhibition on view 30.03.2012 – 15.07.2012. MAX BECKMANN Carnival Mask, Green, Violet, and Pink: Columbine (Fastnacht-Maske grün, violett und rosa, [Read More]
St. Louis, Missouri – The stunning 1935 500K Mercedes-Benz from Kemp Auto Museum was awarded “Best New Coachwork or Re-Creation” at the17th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, held at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida [Read More]
Space-ranger Buzz Lightyear, of Toy Story fame, became part of the National Air and Space Museum’s popular culture collection today. Launched May 31, 2008, aboard the space shuttle Discovery with mission STS-124 and returned on [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston have announced the Arts of Korea gallery at the MFAH will be reinstalled with 43 new, exclusive loans of ancient Korean works of art, primarily from the National Museum [Read More]
Christie’s will offer a collection of 71 lots Sold to Benefit Acquisitions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, its spring Photographs sale, on Thursday, April 5. Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents College Night at the Getty Center, on Monday, April 16, 2012, 6:00–9:30 p.m. Local college students are invited to enjoy a free night of special tours, live music, food, [Read More]
Tucson, AZ – March 23, 2012 – The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona Libraries is pleased to announce that it has acquired the photographic archive of Lynn Stern. “We are delighted [Read More]
American museum-goers will have the rare opportunity to view a complete triptych by Renaissance master Maerten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), one of the most admired Netherlandish painters of the 16th century, when his dramatic Ecce Homo [Read More]
Ann Goldstein, Director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, announced that this leading international institution of modern and contemporary art will celebrate its opening ceremony on Saturday, September 22, 2012, and will begin welcoming the public [Read More]
The Center for Creative Photography presents Speaking in Tongues. Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, on view March 27, 2012 – June 17, 2012. Wallace Berman Untitled (Shuffle), 1969 Verifax & acrylic 13 × 14 [Read More]
Beginning in March, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presented 14 exhibitions and projects, including work by more than 25 leading and emerging contemporary artists such as Nina Katchadourian, Joachim Koester, [Read More]
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presents Bojan Sarcevic, A Curious Contortion in the Method of Progress, an exhibition on view through 26 May 2012. Bojan Sarcevic A Curious Contortion in the Method of Progress is the first [Read More]
Highlights of the Collection Tour 6:30 pm on the first Wednesday of the month and 1:30 pm on all Saturdays and Sundays FREE with general Museum admission Experience the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour [Read More]
The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art presents Piero Gilardi. Collaborative Effects, 1962–1985, an exhibition on view 30 March–6 May 2012. Piero Gilardi, “Vestito natura-anguria,” 1967. Foam polyurethane. Courtesy the artist Castello di Rivoli, [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the 11th annual Jazz Appreciation Month in April with a monthlong celebration of jazz featuring performances, talks, tours and family-oriented events in venues around Washington, D.C. [Read More]
Baltimore – This summer, the Walters Art Museum will present Public Property, an exhibition collectively created by the public. In 1931, the museum’s founder Henry Walters bequeathed the core collection of the Walters to the [Read More]
The Birmingham Museum of Art recently added a painting to its American Gallery that has special resonance in Perry County: a portrait of the county’s namesake, American Naval hero Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The portrait [Read More]