Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, director of the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI), Kuwait, and co-owner with Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah of The al-Sabah [Read More]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
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The Adventure Park at The Discovery Museum, Connecticut’s first aerial forest ropes park, which is located in Bridgeport Connecticut, announced that it survived Hurricane Sandy with no damage to its trees or aerial courses. It [Read More]
Visitors to the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) have no doubt recently noticed a monumental new sculpture at Nepean Point, behind the Gallery. The work, by the internationally known Canadian artist Michel de Broin, is [Read More]
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe opens Better Books: Art, Anarchy and Apostasy on view November 3, 2012–January 6, 2013. Better Books, 92-94 Charing Cross Road, 1972. ©/Photo: Richard Friedman, Oakland. In the [Read More]
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Frequency and Volume, an exhibition on view until February 3, 2013, invites visitors to tune in and listen to different radio frequencies by using their [Read More]
CAPC musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux announces onathan Binet La petite moitié, an exhibition on view November 15, 2012–February 10, 2013. Jonathan Binet at the CAPC museum of contemporary art. Photo Blaise Mercier The presence [Read More]
The Royal Academy of Art in London presents Almost Real Art. A Satirical Archaeology of the RA Collections and Library by Mark Hampson, an exhibition on view 1 November 2012 – 17 February 2013. Mark [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati’s favorite holiday tradition is back! Holiday Junction featuring the Duke Energy Holiday Trains opens Friday, Nov. 2 for the second year in its new home at Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. [Read More]
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge reports that the campaign by the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Art Fund to raise £3.9m to enable the museum to acquire Nicolas Poussin’s masterpiece Extreme Unction (c. 1638-40) has reached [Read More]
Maxwell L. Anderson, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Sabiha Al Khemir, the founding director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, as the Museum’s [Read More]
Schirn presents Privacy, an exhibition on view 1. NOVEMBER – 3. FEBRUARY 2013. Private—a word from the past, or so it would seem these days. A word of hardly any relevance in an era when [Read More]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Now’s The Time. Recent Acquisitions, an exhibition bringing together highlights from the museum’s growing collection of contemporary art that have been acquired over the past five years, on view November [Read More]
Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art / Riwaq presents Gestures in Time, on view 1–15 November 2012. Gestures in Time is part of the pilot edition of Qalandiya International – art and life in Palestine. Presenting [Read More]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is closed due to storm Hurricane Sandy and is expected to resume regular operating hours on Friday, November 2nd. Check the Guggenheim website at guggenheim.org or Twitter at twitter.com/guggenheim for [Read More]
Portikus presents Latifa Echakhch Die Vogel on view November 3, 2012–February 2013. Portikus has been located for six years now on the Maininsel, a small island in the river Main, sharing this exceptional site with [Read More]
Instituto de Arte Contemporanea (IAC) announces Resonant Space. The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero, on view September 3, 2012–January 6, 2013. One of the most significant artists in the history of modernist abstraction, the Venezuelan Alejandro [Read More]
The National Museum of the American Indian will launch Living Maya Time – Viviendo el tiempo maya—a bilingual website dedicated to highlighting Maya culture and dispelling doomsday myths about the end of the Maya calendar [Read More]
Nov. 11 opening for show from the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow SEATTLE, – On Sunday, Nov. 11, The Museum of Flight opens a temporary exhibit in conjunction with the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow, [Read More]