The Museum of Flight celebrates Memorial Day with three days of military airplane rides, fly-ins, a lecture and book signing with a Medal of Honor recipient, concerts and speeches. Memorial Day begins the Blue Star [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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Kids can explore the Miles River and learn maritime skills in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) summer sailing program, where new sailors and old salts gain the confidence to sail a small boat in [Read More]
Mark di Suvero at Governors Island: Presented by Storm King Art Center opens on May 26, 2012; expanded series of public programs begins in June Storm King Art Center today announced a second season of [Read More]
Collecting for the Future: A Decade of Acquisition Highlights, a fully illustrated volume, presents notable artworks acquired for the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum over the past ten years. Ranging from ancient Egyptian coins [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents LaToya Ruby Frazier. A Haunted Capital, an exhibition on view June 29 through October 21, 2012. LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital features approximately 40 photographic works that intimately connect the [Read More]
The National Museum of African Art presents Lalla Essaydi. Revisions, an exhibition on view May 9 through Feb. 24, 2013. Lalla Essaydi’s refined work belies its subversive, challenging nature. Moroccan-born, Essaydi became an artist after [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) renowned concert series, Jazz at LACMA, will launch a new broadcast series with KJazz 88.1 FM on May 13, 2012. Airing every Sunday from 7-9 pm, this [Read More]
Kunstverein Hamburg presents an exhibition of work by Alexandra Bircken, on view May 12–September 2, 2012. Alexandra Bircken, Pferdchen, 2008. Rocking horse (wood), knots, bolts, wool. 13.75 x 88.5 x 36 cm Alexandra Bircken (b. [Read More]
The new Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing at Maryhill Museum of Art will open to the public with a full weekend of celebration May 12 and 13. Visitors will be treated to free admission, special [Read More]
The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH announces Alina Szapocznikow. Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972, an exhibition on view May 19–August 5, 2012. Alina Szapocznikow, “Petit dessert I” (Small Dessert I), 1970–71. Kravis Collection. © [Read More]
The National Museum of the American Indian presents Best in the World. Native Athletes in the Olympics, an exhibition on view from May 25, through through Sept. 3, 2012. On the 100th anniversary of the [Read More]
Flying Fortress “Aluminum Overcast” honors veterans of World War II SEATTLE, – A Memorial Day weekend tradition continues as The Museum of Flight will host the Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17 bomber, Aluminum Overcast, for rides [Read More]
Bergen Kunsthal presents Marianne Heier. Surplus, an exhibition on view 24 May–5 July 2012. The title of Heier’s exhibition makes use of the concept of ‘surplus.’ The complexity of the concept is exploited in the [Read More]
The Wexner Center for the Arts presents Omer Fast: 2001/11, on view May 19–August 5, 2012. Omer Fast, “5000 Feet Is the Best,” 2011. Digital film, 30-minute loop. Courtesy of gb agency, Paris, and Arratia [Read More]
The New Museum presents Phyllida Barlow. siege, an exhibition on view 5/2/12 – 6/24/2012. “Phyllida Barlow: siege” is the first New York solo exhibition of the work of British sculptor. For her New Museum presentation, [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has handed over a unique loan to the National Maritime Museum in London. After 345 years, the ‘stern carvings decoration’ of the flagship the Royal Charles has been returned to England. In June [Read More]
SALT Galata presents Modern Essays 4. SALON, on view through June 17, 2012. SALON exhibition, SALT Galata. Photo by Mustafa Hazneci, 2012 SALT’s Modern Essays series investigates different aspects of modernism, the effects of Westernization, [Read More]
The Shop at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will launch a newly designed online store May 14, with improved functionality, narrative product pages, seamless checkout, integrated member discounting and enhanced search capabilities. The new site, shop.cooperhewitt.org, [Read More]