North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh presemts Real to Reel. The Making of Gone with the Wind an exhibition opening Friday, Aug. 31. Showcasing authentic memorabilia — costumes, screen tests, scene props, a script, [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Oceanside Museum of Art presents CRUISIN CALIFAS. The Art of Lowriding, an exhibition on view through September 30, 2012. Gilbert “Magu” Lujan Our Family Car Oceanside Museum of Art The personalized automobiles known as “Lowriders,” [Read More]
The Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska has released New Site and Building Concept Drawings for the exterior, floor plan, and elevations of the new building. The site plans show Phase 1 with the new building [Read More]
The National Building Museum presents two photography exhibitions exploring the meaning of Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit Disassembled the artist Andrew Moore offers dramatic, classically-inspired images of the ruins found in the Motor City. Detroit Is [Read More]
David Crosson has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) as Vice President of Development. Crosson brings a wide range of relevant experience to the position, as a previous marketing and communications campaign strategist who [Read More]
The Georgia Weekly Newspaper Museum in Homer is to to open Sept. 8. The purpose of the museum is to show how a typical rural weekly newspaper was published by letterpress in the era of [Read More]
A groundbreaking exhibition that unites masterpieces of Chinese sculpture from the famed sixth-century cave temples at Xiangtangshan with the first-ever digitized reconstructions of their original setting opens on September 11, 2012, at the Institute for [Read More]
The National Building Museum presents its fourteenth Vincent Scully Prize to Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, for his lifetime work of encouraging thoughtful discourse and debate about the importance of design. Goldberger has written [Read More]
The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College presents Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance, an exhibition, on view from August 28, 2012-June 30, 2013. Ghirlandaio Portrait of a Lady with a Rabbit, [Read More]
The Great Savannah Races Museum has opened in Savannah, Georgia. The Micro-Museum and Shop is dedicated to the Great Savannah Races: The First American Grand Prix, The Vanderbilt Cup, Tiedeman Trophy and Savannah Challenge of [Read More]
San Antonio Museum of Art presents Adad Hannah. Intimate Encounters, an exhibition on view September 1—December 30, 2012. Adad Hannah Eros and Aphrodite, 2008 HD video 7 min, 18 sec Produced with the cooperation of [Read More]
Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo presents Adriana Varejao Historias at the Margins, an exhibition on view 3 September–16 December 2012. Adriana Varejão, Linha Equinocial (Equinoctial Line), 1993. Oil on canvas, porcelain, polyamide threads. [Read More]
Cabaret Voltaire presents Claude Leveque Weisswald on 7 September 2012–6 January 2013. Opening: 6 September, 6–8pm. At the beginning of our collaboration, and with Cabaret Voltaire as the birthplace of dada in Switzerland as his [Read More]
The Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City has reopened after being closed for a year. Museo Rufino Tamayo Among the seven exhibitions on view in the vastly enlarged complex is a large-scale retrospective of Tamayo’s [Read More]
American documentary photographer Susan Meiselas will speak about her work in a lecture sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The talk is scheduled for 1 p.m. Oct. 6 in the [Read More]
Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents The Valley of the Shadow American Landscapes in the Time of the Civil War, an exhibition on view Aug. 31 through Dec. 16, 2012. David [Read More]
Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents Ancient Masters in Modern Styles. Chinese Ink Paintings from the 16th-21st Centuries, an exhibition on view Aug. 31 through Dec. 16, 2012. Zhao Shao’ang, Chinese, [Read More]
Using scientific techniques and cutting-edge equipment, researchers at the Indianapolis Museum of Art Conservation Science Laboratory have recently solved mysteries about paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Giorgio de Chirico. Since opening in early 2011, [Read More]