Princeton University Art Museum presents an installation of Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads on view from Aug. 1, 2012 to Aug. 1, 2013 and is part of a world tour of the work, which [Read More]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) honors Campbell with this year’s Bay Area Treasure Award at a presentation and dinner on Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Organized by SFMOMA’s Modern Art Council, the museum’s [Read More]
Storm King Art Center presents a Special Exhibition Event. Full Moon Tour of Lunar (2011), by Spencer Finch on Thursday, August 2 at 9:00 pm. Lunar (2011) by Spencer Finch Under the light of the [Read More]
The Jewish Museum will present Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries from September 14, 2012 through February 3, 2013. This exhibition will feature over 60 works – Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts – the [Read More]
With steamed crabs, cold beer, a boat docking contest, and the live music of Bird Dog and the Road Kings, the traditions of the Chesapeake will be celebrated on August 12 at the Talbot County [Read More]
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents four controversial murals that were removed from the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s building in downtown Atlanta last year. In 1956, George Beattie, an Atlanta-based [Read More]
(Katonah, NY) The Katonah Museum of Art shines a spotlight on the creative process of computer animation with the exhibition “Ice Age” to the Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios, on [Read More]
CREHST Museum in Richland presents NOISE an exhibition on view now. Break the sound barrier at CREHST this summer with NOISE!, a hands-on exhibit that takes a playful look at the physics of sound waves [Read More]
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]
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]