Focus Tours feature landscape, contemporary art, and architectural history The Glass House launches its 2012 tour season on Wednesday, May 2, offering seven different ways for visitors to experience the site. Tour tickets, ranging in [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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Featuring Indigenous Antique Fine Art, Baskets, Ancient Indian Rock Drawings, and Storytelling on May 5 – 6. Sandra Horn, purveyor of antique Native American basketry, surrounded by her personal collection. The Autry National Center invites [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) presents BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works. Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, an exhibition on view May 1–Jul 24, 2012. Molly Zuckerman-Hartung The Initial Painting, 2012 Oil and spray paint on canvas [Read More]
The Vancouver Art Gallery announces Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, an exhibition on view May 26 to September 30, 2012. Paul Gauguin, Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango), [Read More]
Professor Nasser D. Khalili has presented the Ashmolean with an exceptional embroidered sitarah (curtain) made for the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina. The textile will go on permanent display in the Ashmolean’s Islamic [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles has announced photographer Annie Leibovitz as the recipient of the 7th MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts. “Annie Leibovitz’s powerful images of American popular culture have [Read More]
Discovery Times Square presents Terracotta Warriors. Defenders of China’s First Emperor, an exhibition on view , featuring nine of the estimated 8,000 figures entombed at Xian in central China. The Terracotta Army or the “Terra [Read More]
MoMA PS1 presents Lara Favaretto. Just Knocked Out, a survey on view May 3–September 10, 2012. Comprising a dozen works from the past fifteen years, as well as new pieces created specifically for the exhibition. [Read More]
The Hayward Gallery London presents Wide Open School on 11 June–11 July 2012. Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery’s Wide Open School is an unusual experiment in public learning. Its programme of courses has been devised [Read More]
The theme of this year’s Garden Fest at the Smithsonian is “Gardening for Healthy Living,” featuring live music and a variety of activities for children and adults. The free festival will be held Friday, May [Read More]
HUNTERDON ART MUSEUM HOSTS SERIES OF EXCLUSIVE EVENTS FEATURING FREE SCREENINGS OF SEASON SIX OF THE PEABODY AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY All Four Episodes of Groundbreaking Series to be Presented between May [Read More]
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) presents Picasso. Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, an exhibition on view from May 1, 2012. Pablo Picasso Deux femmes courant sur la plage (La course)(Two women running [Read More]
The National World War II Museum in New Orleans presents Turning Point. The Doolittle Raid, Battle of the Coral Sea, and Battle of Midway, an exhibition on view July 8, 2012. In the early, dark [Read More]
Visitors of all ages are invited to celebrate Space Day this year at both National Air and Space Museum locations Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. At the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy visitors [Read More]
The US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA announced its awards honoring significant exhibitions of the previous season (June 2010–June 2011). The 400 active members of the Association voted from over 100 finalists. [Read More]
The Carnegie Museum of Art presents an exhibition of work by Duncan Campbell, on view April 28–July 8, 2012. Duncan Campbell, Make It New John, 2009, video; black-and-white and color, sound, 50 min, courtesy the [Read More]
The Andy Warhol Museum and KIWI Arts Group announce that a selection of 100 signed and numbered photographs from the William John Kennedy archives will become part of the museum’s permanent collection. In addition, two [Read More]
The Frick Collection presents Antico. The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, the first monographic exhibition in the United States devoted to the Italian sculptor and goldsmith on view from May 1, 2012 through July 29, [Read More]