Christie’s auctioneers have announced an opportunity to acquire iconic London Underground posters direct from the archives of London Transport Museum (LTM). The auction, featuring over 300 original advertising posters dating from 1913 to 1955, will [Read More]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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The National Museum of Wildlife Art is hosting a Plein Air Festival on June 16 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Part of the grand opening week festivities around the museum’s [Read More]
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art has announced two new exhibitions, opening on Friday, June 15, 6pm – 8pm. Tracy Snelling, Mexicalichina, 2011, Mixed Media, Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, SF [Read More]
It is with great regret that the HMS Bounty, originally scheduled to make an appearance at St Michaels 25th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival, June 15-17, 2012 has to cancel and will not be [Read More]
Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Adrian Zingg. Precursor of Romanticism’, an exhibition on view from 25 May to 12 August 2012. This is Switzerland’s first museum exhibition devoted to the work of Adrian Zingg (1734-1816). Zingg is [Read More]
On June 23rd, Garvies Point Museum will be unveiling our new exhibit featuring “Forensic Geology.” At 1 pm, join Dr. George J. Allgaier’s discussion on how, when, and where unusual rock formations form. Using James [Read More]
The Indiana State Museum announces Star Wars:® Where Science Meets Imagination, an exhibition on view May 25, 2013, and running through Sept. 2, 2013. The exhibit explores the Star Wars films, the real science behind [Read More]
The Sam Houston Memorial Museum presents Working Hands. An Exhibition of Photographs by Rick Williams, an exhibition on view June 1- July 15, 2012. Photographer Rick Williams has captured images of workers and work places [Read More]
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Virginia Living Museum is offering military families a $25 discount on memberships during the Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28. Virginia Living Museum Caro, Monroe & Liang [Read More]
Eighty-six years after the death of Indiana artist T.C. Steele (1847-1926), a new painting has been discovered, much to the delight of the Indiana State Museum. This is the first discovery of its nature in [Read More]
La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre presents Invisible Monuments, an exhibition on view 26 May–21 July 2012. Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Lost Monument, 2009. Video still. As part of the annual foreign curator in residence programme, La Galerie [Read More]
Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt spoke at the Science Museum in London about why science matters. “Science illuminates the world and gives us the building blocks to transform our lives. The fundamental advances in human [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced a major expansion of its popular “Holiday Mondays” program. Henceforth, both of the Museum’s locations—the main building on Fifth Avenue and The Cloisters museum and gardens, [Read More]
A new collaboration between Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology will use the latest genetic techniques to investigate organic remains that some have claimed belong to the ‘Yeti’ and other ‘lost’ hominid species. [Read More]
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presents a discussion between T. Kelly Mason, Tyler Cassity, and George Baker on funerary objects and practices in early 21st-century Los Angeles and the relationship of these to private [Read More]
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will “Bring Back the Funk” with a free concert on the National Mall, Wednesday, June 27, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Festival’s performance [Read More]
AMOA-Arthouse has named Jeff Williams as the 2012 recipient of the Texas Prize, an ongoing program highlighting talented, under-recognized professional artists working in the Lone Star State. An internationally respected jury selected Austin-based Williams from [Read More]
The Virginia Living Museum presents Dinosaurs, an exhibition on view May 26 – Sept. 3, 2012. The purpose of the Virginia Living Museum shall be to stimulate knowledge, awareness and appreciation of the biological and [Read More]