The Scottish National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a self portrait by Alison Watt. Alison Watt (b.1965), Self-portrait, 1986-87. Oil on canvas, 30.80 x 30.80 cm. © Alison Watt The painting, which was made while the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras, North Carolina presents the log page from the Hatteras Weather Bureau Station that first received and recorded the mayday message sent from the R.M.S. Titanic on April [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Naked before the Camera the History of the Nude in Photography, an exhibition of more than 60 photographs on view through September 9, 2012. Oscar Gustav Rejlander, Ariadne, 1857. [Read More]
The Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City presents a solo exhibition by Pablo Helguera, on view April 20–June 17, 2012. Pablo Helguera, “Quodlibet (Bellas Artes),” 2012. Still of the video “Anoche (Bellas [Read More]
Dignitaries from the Michener Art Museum, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, the Italian Consulate in Philadelphia and Visit Bucks County spoke at a press conference at the Consulate headquarters, announcing the arrival of major [Read More]
The American Clock & Watch Museum will celebrate the official opening of the 2012 season on Saturday, April 14, 2012, by hosting an Open House that will include free admission all day. Celebrating its 60th [Read More]
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah is pleased to announce its participation as the global presenting venue for Low Lives 4. This two-day festival [Read More]
Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Jürg Zeltner, CEO of UBS Wealth Management, today announced an ambitious, five-year collaboration to chart creative activity and contemporary art from around the [Read More]
The Space Shuttle Discovery, expected to arrive in the skies over the Washington area Tuesday, April 17, will be a sight people do not see every day. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, which [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) presents 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, a collaboration by Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne, on view through August 6, [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open a signature exhibition, “American Stories,” on April 12, 2012. “American Stories” presents a chronology of American history from European and Native cultural encounters of the early [Read More]
The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents Aziz + Cucher. Some People, an exhibition on view April 13–October 21, 2012. The collaborative duo Aziz + Cucher have worked together for twenty years, addressing the major dilemmas [Read More]
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College, is offering artists an opportunity to create small works of art and sell them at the museum. Night view of the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City [Read More]
The Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac (CMFDL) has received a $10,000 grant from the Efroymson Family Fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation. The grant has come to the museum at a critical time [Read More]
On Tuesday, June 12 beginning at 7pm, the public is invited to an evening of live music along the waterfront campus of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. The 28-member, 229th Maryland [Read More]
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College is pleased to announce that it has partnered with WCMU Public Broadcasting to offer a Free Night at the Museum at the Dennos in association with the [Read More]
The Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, MO, presents a Ronstadt Generations Concert on Friday, April 13, 2012. Doors open at 6:00, Concert begins at 7:30 pm. 7:00 pm Pre-Show with Lisa Bales. Ronstadt Generations [Read More]
The American Association of Museums (AAM) presents it’s 3rd annual virtual conference on April 30 and May 1, 2012. The AAM Annual Meeting Virtual Conference 2012, produced in collaboration with LearningTimes, is a two-day online [Read More]