The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is celebrating the Latin American holiday Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) with a free two-day family event Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20–21, 10:30 a.m. [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 18, 2012
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One of the first satellites designed to provide space-based digital radio service to consumers in the United States and Canada was donated by SiriusXM Radio and Space Systems/Loral to the Smithsonian. The Sirius FM-4 broadcasting [Read More]
The Hyde Collection presents Hyde Collection opens From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden an exhibition on view through January 6, 2013, as part of a centennial tribute honoring artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988). [Read More]
Portland Art Museum presents The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, an exhibition on view through anuary 6, 2013. The Body Beautiful In Ancient Greece features more than 120 priceless objects from the British Museum’s famed [Read More]
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has acquired two new paintings: View of Margam House, Glamorgan, looking South & View of Margam House, Glamorgan, looking North- after receiving generous grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund [Read More]
In 2005 and 2009 Museum Van Loon showed its hospitality towards Foam_ Fotografie Museum Amsterdam which is located directly opposite the museum, across the Keizersgracht canal. Danielle van Ark, Untitled from the series Everything Fell [Read More]
Faurschou Foundation presents Louise Bourgeois Alone And Together, an exhibition on view October 27, 2012–March 24, 2013. Considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, this will be Bourgeois’s first retrospective exhibition [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens Gustave Caillebotte An Impressionist and Photography, an exhibition on view October 18, 2012–January 20, 2013. Gustave Caillebotte, Raboteurs de parquet (Floor Scrapers), 1875. Oil on canvas, 102 x 145 cm. © [Read More]
Maine Maritime Museum presents Ahead Full at Fifty. 50 Years of Collecting, an exhibition on view Nov. 10, 2012 to April 21, 2013. Celebrating our first fifty years, Maine Maritime Museum is compiling a retrospective [Read More]
LUMA Foundation presents Doug Aitken ALTERED EARTH. Arles, city of moving images, on view 20 October–20 November 2012. Altered Earth, Doug Aitken Workshop, Arles 2012 ALTERED EARTH is a 21st-century Earthwork. This multimedia work is [Read More]
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts presents Le Corbusier e l’Italia on view 18 October 2012–17 February 2013. Architect, sculptor, painter, brilliant thinker of his time, the creator of an architecture based on [Read More]
Author Brian Baum recounts 1977 Pan Am Flight SEATTLE – Thirty-five years ago this month, Pan American World Airways organized Flight 50, the first passenger flight around the world over the North and South Poles. [Read More]
Maine Maritime Museum presents Subdue, Seize and Take. Maritime Maine in the Unwelcome Interruption of the War of 1812, an exhibition on view Oct. 28, 2012. Subdue, Seize and Take will chronicle the maritime world [Read More]
Goethe-Institut New York announces Resonance, an exhibition on view October 26–December 16, 2012. Faivovich & Goldberg, Retrato del meteorito El Chaco, de Campo del Cielo, 2006. Resonance at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building joins artwork and [Read More]
Jackson Hole, Wyoming – The National Museum of Wildlife Art has acquired an important early work by master wildlife artist Carl Rungius. The Stampede, completed by the artist circa 1898, was purchased for the museum [Read More]