Following the recent announcement of a $45,000 gift from The Dayton Foundation for roof repairs, The Dayton Art Institute has received a gift for the restoration of plaster work in the galleries and drainage repairs [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum announces the formation of a partnership with preeminent philatelic libraries around the world to provide a centralized gateway to the greatest philatelic research in existence. Founding partners in the initiative [Read More]
The Columbia Museum of Art presents its major summer exhibition, The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design, on view beginning Saturday, April 28 through Sunday, August 26, 2012. “This is the first comprehensive [Read More]
Kunsthalle Basel presents Aleksandra Domanovic – From yu to me, an exhibition on view 1 April–27 May 2012. Monumentality and national identity – within and beyond borders – are important topics in Aleksandra Domanović ’s work, [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico, the first large-scale exploration of the ancient kingdoms of southern Mexico and their patron deity, [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Chrysler Museum of Art voted March 29 to proceed with plans to expand and renovate the Museum. New first floor layout (Axonometric view) Chrysler Museum of Art If the [Read More]
The Columbia Museum of Art Contemporaries host the ninth annual Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year Soirée and Silent Auction on Friday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. The event, established in 2004, is designed to increase [Read More]
The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Max Weber on Long Island which will be on view from April 28 through August 5, 2012. Max Weber, who lived on Long Island from 1920 [Read More]
The University of Alaska Museum of the North presents an Open House and Military Appreciation, April 012 12-4 p.m. April 21, giving a look behind the scenes at the labs where researchers make discoveries about [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Basel presents Renoir. Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie. The Early Years, an exhibition on view 1. April – 12. August 2012, focusing on the underappreciated early work of the great painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). Fifty [Read More]
The New Bedford Art Museum presents an Opening Celebration on Thursday, April 5th. 6-8:30pm. $40 member.$45 non-member. Please join the museum in celebration of the new New Bedford Art Museum. NBAM 2.0 is an exhibit [Read More]
The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida announced the opening of its 26,000-square-foot Asian art wing to the public on March 31, 2012. Harn Museum of Art The new Asian [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced that the NGV was Australia’s most visited gallery and the 25th most visited art gallery in the world in 2011. Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted [Read More]
The Wellcome Collection presents Brains. The mind as matter an exhibition on view 29 March–17 June 2012. Brainbow Mouse Digital photomicrograph, Jean Livet, Joshua R Sanes and Jeff Lichtman, 2007 Lichtman Lab, Harvard University Wellcome [Read More]
The National Gallery of Canada presents The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2012, on 30 Mar 2012 – 17 Jun 2012. Ron Martin, To Foil Oils, Phase III, 1997,Winsor & Newton oils [Read More]
Baidu has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia Digital Museum. On view at http://baike.baidu.com/museum In this collaborative undertaking, Baidu joins forces with museums across China to digitally display their collections. Museums that are visited by thousands can [Read More]
The National Museum of China, located to the east of Tian’anmen Square in central Beijing, officially opened to the public. National Museum of China, Photo：Ma Tengfei “As China’s flagship public museum, the National Museum should [Read More]
The Wellcome Collection presents The treasures of Henry Wellcome, an exhibition on view through 20 May 2012. From a pair of wax hands to a shrunken head and from ivory anatomical figures to an executioner’s [Read More]