The seven national museums in Wales received 1.69 million visits in 2011-12, the highest total ever recorded since free entry was introduced in April 2001. The Welsh Government and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales […]
Daily Archives: April 4, 2012
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The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents Military Series. Aleksandr Sokurov in the MACBA Collection, an exhibition on view 20 May 2012. In the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival Aleksandr Sokurov […]
Storm King Art Center, opens to the public on April 4 for its 2012 season. Located about an hour north of New York City, in the Hudson Valley, Storm King encompasses over 500 pristine acres […]
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American studio-glass movement with the opening of the renovated Aviva and Jack A. Robinson glass gallery on Wednesday, April 4. The gallery, […]
The Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall) of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn presents Menage a trois Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, on view through 20 May 2012. Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973 Acrylic and silkscreen on […]
Thomas Smith (b. 1938), visual effect producer for such films as “Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial” (1982), has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research […]
The Art Institute of Chicago presents Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Japanese Art in an exhibition on view May 9–October 28, 2012. Yoshida Ayomi. Touches, W1-M.A.K., 1988. Japanese Print Acquisition Fund, Japanese Art Shinkokai Fund For […]
The Art Institute of Chicago presents Fashioning the Object. Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund, on view April 14–September 13, 2012. Contemporary fashion over the last half-century has become increasingly influenced by current social, political, and environmental […]
A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recognizes the extraordinary generosity of one the Gallery’s great patrons. A Tribute to Ayala Zacks (1912–2011) opens April 4, 2012 in the Frank P. Wood […]
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) announced it has joined the Google Art Project. The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and a select group of international art partners. Using a combination of various […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an exhibition exploring origins of ancient egyptian art, on view April 10–August 5, 2012. Lion Cub, ca. 3100–2900 B.C. Egypt, Dynasty 1. Quartzite; L. 23.4 x H. 12 x […]
Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall) of the Federal Republic of Germany presents Romy Schneider, an exhibition on view 5 April to 24 June 2012. Romy Schneider (Vienna, 1938 – 1982, Paris) was one of the […]
The The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Durer and Beyond: Central European Drawings 1400–1700, in an exhibition on view April 3–September 3, 2012. Urs Graf, The Bearer of the Banner of the Canton Glarus, 1521. […]
Museum of Modern Art, New York presents Mezhrabpom. The Red Dream Factory, 1922–1936, on view April 11–30, 2012. This exhibition includes the first Russian sound film, Soviet science-fiction melodramas, a Soviet Western, and key works […]
The De La Warr Pavilion presents an exhibition of work by Cerith Wyn Evans on view through 10 June 2012. Cerith Wyn Evans, Assemblages VIII, 2010 (White Cube Bermondsey), 2011; Mixed media; dimensions variable; © […]
The Walker Art Center and Northern Lights.mn present Discourse and Discord. Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street, a symposium open April 12–14, 2012. In an era of cultural conservatives and […]
The Chatsworth House Trust and the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, presents ‘Caro at Chatsworth’, the first exhibition dedicated to the work of a single artist to be held in the garden at […]
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has today joined the Google Art Project (www.googleartproject.com), making its galleries and hundreds of highlights from its permanent collection accessible online to audiences around the world. The partnership is part of […]
The National Gallery in London presents Titian’s First Masterpiece. The Flight into Egypt, on view 4 April – 19 August 2012. Titian The Flight into Egypt, about 1506-7. © The State Hermitage Museum / Natalia […]
American aces recall combat adventures of two wars SEATTLE, April 3, 2012–On April 7 at 2 p.m. a panel of three veteran fighter pilots will share their personal stories of aerial combat during World War […]
The Smithsonian Latino Center and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History present Chilean singer, songwriter and arranger Claudia Acuña in a Latin jazz vocal workshop and evening concert Thursday, April 19. The workshop will […]
Recorded Live for The Modern Art Notes Podcast with host Tyler Green BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Museum of Art is pleased to support Station North Arts & Entertainment Inc.’s Open Walls Baltimore project by bringing […]