The National Maritime Museum has received a £25,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for Ebb and Flow: Young Heritage Leaders – a new project for young people from the borough of Greenwich, aged [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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On Wednesday 25 April, Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh, officially re-opened Cutty Sark; the world’s last surviving tea clipper and one of Britain’s greatest maritime treasures, following [Read More]
A huge tapestry, created to celebrate Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008, is on display at the Museum of Liverpool. Following on from Mike McCartney’s Liverpool exhibition which ends on 15 April [Read More]
The Espai d’art contemporani de Castello presents Sharon Lockhart, Double Tide, on view May 11–September 2, 2012. Sharon Lockhart, “Double Tide (Jen Casad, South Bristol, Maine, July 22, 2008, Sunrise), Double Tide (Jen Casad, South [Read More]
A special exhibition opening in the Israel Museum’s Ruth Youth Wing for Art Education on March 29 will examine the passage from day to night and the universal human experience of falling asleep. Good Night [Read More]
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Himalayan Pilgrimage. Journey to the Land of Snows, on view June 16, 2010 – June 30, 2013. Unidentified artist, Tibet: Shakyamuni Buddha, 14th century; gilt bronze; [Read More]
Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work [Read More]
DOYLESTOWN, PA – To the gentle strains of harp music, surrounded by cascading floral arrangements and sparkling lights reflecting off the glassed-in view of the stone wall, A Night at the Uffizi greeted 220 guests [Read More]
The Mizel Museum will stay open late on Thursday nights, now through Labor Day, for free admission to its permanent exhibit, 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks, an interactive journey through art, artifacts and digital [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents Alex Katz Prints, an exhibition on view from April 28 through July 29 in the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery. Alex Katz, Orange Hat, from the portfolio Alex [Read More]
Haus der Kulturen der Welt presents ON RESEARCH Lecture Performances + Discussion with Rabih Mroué + Hito Steyerl Ina Wudtke + Dieter Lesage Xavier Le Roy and others, on 4 and 5 May 2012. The [Read More]
The New Museum in New York presents Museum as Hub.Carlos Motta. We Who Feel Differently, on view May 16–September 9, 2012. Carlos Motta, Our Hand, from “We Who Feel Differently,” 2011. Project sketch. Courtesy the [Read More]
The Walker Art Center presents whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir, a film installation by Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation, on view April 18–July 8, 2012. This seemingly self-generating sci-fi film never ends, nor does it actually begin. Drawing on [Read More]
The St. Michaels harbor will transform to an image of days gone by with several tall ships and visiting vessels docking at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) beginning this May and continuing throughout the [Read More]
The New Museum in New York presents We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium, on May 4–5, 2012, in the New Museum Theater. Leading up to the exhibition, “We Who Feel Differently: A Symposium” will investigate [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Calgary presents Atomic Suite. An exhibition by Mary Kavanagh on view through August 25, 2012. Mary Kavanagh, Thermal Cloud, Minute Man Missile Rocket Motor Detonation, Utah Test and Training Range, UT [Read More]
The Houston Museum of Natural Science presents A Day In The Life Of A Dinosaur, an exhibition on view through Sept. 30, 2012. Dinosaur Discovery , a new special exhibition at the Houston Museum of [Read More]
At the 2012 Collectors’Selection Dinner on Wednesday, April 25, MCASD’s International Collectors and Contemporary Collectors voted to purchase new works for the Museum’s collection: a luminous overhead sculpture by Spencer Finch, Rome (Pantheon, Noon, June [Read More]