The Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian became the first museum restaurant in Washington, D.C., to earn a Rammy award from the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington. Honored as the [Read More]
Daily Archives: June 27, 2012
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OMA’s annual Art Auction gives you the opportunity to acquire artwork by renowned regional artists at exceptional prices while supporting the museum. Featured artwork will include paintings, sculptures, photography and works on paper by established [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Institution’s Archives of American Gardens, which is managed by Smithsonian Gardens, recently received the American Public Gardens Association Award for Program Excellence. This annual award recognizes exemplary public garden programming that has been [Read More]
In preparation for the Aug. 6 landing of the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover at Mars’ Gale crater, future astronauts, scientists and armchair space travelers are invited to the National Air and Space Museum July [Read More]
Smithsonian Regent Roger Sant and his wife Vicki have made a gift of $10 million to endow the director’s position at the National Museum of Natural History and support the museum’s research and public engagement [Read More]
The Fruitlands Museum in Harvard presents Summer Storytime. Legend of the Raven on 28 June Near this time of the summer solstice, learn about the Native American Legend of the Raven, and discover how the [Read More]
Bernhard Sandfort (*1936, Cologne) has since the early 1960s – in contrast to art informel and Tachism – realized a strict painterly concept based both on minimalist construction as well as a random process. The [Read More]
Franz Erhard Walther is unquestionably one of the most influential artists of recent decades. Scarcely any other artist has been able to change the definition of what sculpture can be, with such foresight and consequence [Read More]
The exhibition of the Croatian artist Ivan Faktor (*1953, Crnac) presents for the first time in Germany an overview of his comprehensive oeuvre. Along with experimental films of the 1970s, such as “First Program” (1978), [Read More]
The fourth part of the exhibition series Sensor. Time for Young Approaches presents Asta Gröting’s work in sculpture, drawing and video art from the Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and the Sammlung Grässlin. Since the 1990s, Asta [Read More]
Engaging in dialog with other artists while at the same time rendering this visible in and through art has been one of the key aspects in Józef Robakowski’s (*1939, Posen) oeuvre from the 1960s. With [Read More]
The ZKM | Media Museum presents the work of Dieter Meier, the multi-talented artist from Zurich, as well as his activity as director of film and video-clips. Meier’s artistic origins are characterized by radical and [Read More]
The exhibition “Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art” presents for the first time the development of sound art in the 21th century at the ZKM | Media Museum and in a public space. [Read More]
Works as “Naked Lunch” or “The Soft Machine” are what made William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) world famous as an author. Far less known, by contrast, is that Burroughs, as a cross-media artist, also produced a [Read More]
The Stadel Museum presents Painting in Photography. Strategies of Appropriation, an exhibition on view From 27 June to 23 September 2012. Richard Hamilton (1922–2011), Eight-Self-Portraits (Detail), 1994. Thermal dye sublimation prints, 40 x 35 cm. [Read More]
The Art Institute of Chicago has won the 2011 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for the landmark exhibition catalogue Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945. The award was presented [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents Lively Edo, an exhibition on view June 30 – October 28, 2012. Edo (literally, “bay entrance”) was a small fishing village when Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) established his shogunal headquarters [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents SYNTHESIS 3D. Artist Multiples, on view June 30 – March 10, 2013. Many consider Marcel Duchamp to be the originator of the modern multiple. As early as 1913, this [Read More]