Colorado railroads helped unearth many fossils as railroad tracks were laid. Construction crews often exposed these unusual and fascinating bones as they were digging and laying railroad ties. Trains were then used to transport these [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired seven greenish-blue glass vessels, the work of two first-time glass blowers who happened to be in attendance at the famed March 1962 Toledo Workshop. That workshop, and one [Read More]
The editorial board of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s scholarly journal, awarded the 2011 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award to JoAnne Mancini, an interdisciplinary historian of the United States and its colonial [Read More]
Frac Haute-Normandie presents German artist Michael Sailstorfer’s first exhibition at a French art institution ‘Forest Cleaning’ on view 21 April–15 July 2012. Michael Sailstorfer, “Raketenbaum,” 2008. Diptych: diasec on aluminium, museum glass For German artist [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced a new off-site space to be used for educational programming for students, families, educators and adults. Located at 111 Central Park North in New York’s rapidly developing [Read More]
The “new” London Film Museum is now open following a major redevelopment of the original Flower Cellars in the heart of Covent Garden. The inaugural exhibition ‘Magnum On Set’ will be supported by original artefacts [Read More]
The New York Botanical Garden will host its Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale, now in its 20th year, on April 27–29, 2012. Show hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. As the country’s [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer 18 monumental works from the Jerwood Sculpture Collection in its Modern and Post-War British Art Evening and Day Sales on 10th and 11th May 2012. Highlights from the Collection, which has [Read More]
The Hirshhorn Museum presents Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, an exhibition on view April 19, 2012 to February 24, 2013. The Hirshhorn presents “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” a monumental 12-part sculptural suite by Ai Weiwei (Chinese, [Read More]
A selection of 37 objects excavated from the sanctuaries of the ancient city of Morgantina in central Sicily are on display at the Getty Villa in the exhibition The Sanctuaries of Demeter and Persephone at [Read More]
The Speed Art Museum opens Inside|Out, an exhibition on view April 21 – September 23. Deborah Butterfield (American, born 1949), Danuta, 2008. Bronze, Museum Purchase. Photo courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA. Inside|Out is an [Read More]
The National Gallery of Denmark presents German World Images 1890-1930. From Kollwitz to Nolde, a new exhibition on view 20 April – 12 August 2012. Franz Marc. Creation, 1913 (detail) National Gallery of Denmark To [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) presents Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba – Fundacion Costantini, on view April 22–August 5, 2012, an exclusive loan exhibition from one of Latin America’s most important arts [Read More]
Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm presents the first large solo exhibition of the Swedish artist Klara Kristalova. On view 25 April–29 July 2012. Klara Kristalova’s imagery is doubled and multilayered. Motifs revolve around themes of transformation, [Read More]
The Morris Museum of Art presents Golden Afternoon. English Watercolors from the Elsley Collection, on view APRIL 21–JULY 1, 2012. Henry John Sylvester Stannard, Lily Pond, Goldney House, Bristol, 1933. Watercolor on paper. The Elsley [Read More]
The Hunington Library presents Visions of Empire. The Quest for a Railroad Across America, 1840–1880 on view April 21 through July 23 in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery. Currier & Ives, “The Express Train,” [Read More]
The Common Guild presents an exhibition of work by Woflgang Tillmans on view 20 April – 23 June, 2012. Woflgang Tillmans Onion 2010, Inkjet print on paper 208x138cm Featuring an important group of works acquired [Read More]
A new portrait of Shami Chakrabarti, Director of campaign group Liberty, has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The photographic portrait is a commission and the first work by British artist Gillian Wearing [Read More]