On 13 October, on the occasion of Design Meile, the design gallery ZEITLOS – BERLIN opens an exhibition of approx. 40 exquisite travel posters from the 1920s to 1950s from the two private collections Joachim [Read More]
Daily Archives: August 1, 2012
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Professor Jack Lohman, Chief Executive Officer of the Royal BC Museum was appointed CBE – Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire – in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The CBE is [Read More]
Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a solo exhibition Mark Hearld: Birds and Beasts will run at the Park near Wakefield from 17 November 2012 until 17 February 2013. Mark Hearld Hat Box Squirrels Hearld will take [Read More]
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission will land the “mega-rover” Curiosity-the largest mobile spacecraft ever launched to another planet-on Sunday, August 5. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is hosting an event for this [Read More]
The Rosenbach Museum & Library, announce the acquisition of materials from television host and, more recently, “children’s book” author, Stephen Colbert. Colbert recently donated to the Rosenbach working materials from his book, I Am a [Read More]
Strawbery Banke Museum presents Thread: Stories of Fashion at Strawbery Banke, 1740-2012 an exhibition on view through October 31, 2012. The exhibition presents the real people who lived in the Puddle Dock neighborhood of Portsmouth [Read More]
A sculpture by artist and musician Jem Finer has gone onto display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park this week. The work, known as Spiegelei, is a 360-degree camera obscura housed inside a stainless steel sphere on [Read More]
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has received a series of grants totaling $3.75 million from the Avenir Foundation in support of the Museum’s new Collections Conservation Center, currently under construction. The funds will [Read More]
The Getty Villa presents Lion Attacking a Horse from the Capitoline Museums, Rome on August 10, 2012–February 4, 2013. Lion Attacking a Horse, end of 4th century B.C. Greek. Marble. Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali di [Read More]
Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth NH, is to host a Vintage & Vine Wine Festival on Saturday, September 8, 2012. The 2012 event encompasses a Green. Grow. Global. theme with a special focus on global [Read More]
The Getty Center will be closed to visitors, scholars and most staff Saturday and Sunday, September 29 and 30, during the demolition of the Mulholland Drive Bridge when, due to road closures, the Getty Center [Read More]
Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s current photography exhibition exploring the work of the iconic Los Angeles-based photographer, has been extended through September 2 to coincide with Labor Day weekend. To date, [Read More]
Getty Research Institute presents Farewell to Surrealism. The Dyn Circle in Mexico, an exhibition that explores the ideas of the unique journal Dyn, created by an international group of writers and artists collaborating in Mexico [Read More]
Rosenbach Museum & Library presents Maurice Sendak. A Legacy , an exhibition on view through 05/26/2013. The exhibition features around 65 objects, to honor his 65-year career, in a salon-style exhibition. The most comprehensive exhibition [Read More]
Cantor Arts Center presents When Artists Attack the King. Honore Daumier and La Caricature, 1830–1835, an exhibition on view August 1–November 11, 2012. Auguste Bouquet, The Pear and Its Seeds. (La Poire et ses Pépins.). [Read More]