National Museums Scotland has announced two major exhibition for 2013, Vikings, from the Historiska Museet in Stockholm on view 1 February – 26 May 2013 and Mary Queen of Scots, a new exhibition curated by [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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The Mead Art Museum presents Reinvinting Tokyo. Japan’s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination, an exhibition on view August 25 to December 30, 2012. Maekawa Sempan Japanese (1888-1960) Night of Shinjuku (Shinjuku no yoru) from [Read More]
Due to its exceptional popularity, the landmark exhibition Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū at the National Gallery of Art will remain open until 8:00 p.m. during its last weekend, April 27, 28, [Read More]
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents It is what it is. Or is it? a group exhibition on view 12 May–29 July 2012. Faycal Baghriche, “Envelopments,” 2010. Flags from 28 countries, flagpoles, and hardware Courtesy [Read More]
Colorado railroads helped unearth many fossils as railroad tracks were laid. Construction crews often exposed these unusual and fascinating bones as they were digging and laying railroad ties. Trains were then used to transport these [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired seven greenish-blue glass vessels, the work of two first-time glass blowers who happened to be in attendance at the famed March 1962 Toledo Workshop. That workshop, and one [Read More]
The editorial board of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s scholarly journal, awarded the 2011 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award to JoAnne Mancini, an interdisciplinary historian of the United States and its colonial [Read More]
Frac Haute-Normandie presents German artist Michael Sailstorfer’s first exhibition at a French art institution ‘Forest Cleaning’ on view 21 April–15 July 2012. Michael Sailstorfer, “Raketenbaum,” 2008. Diptych: diasec on aluminium, museum glass For German artist [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced a new off-site space to be used for educational programming for students, families, educators and adults. Located at 111 Central Park North in New York’s rapidly developing [Read More]
The “new” London Film Museum is now open following a major redevelopment of the original Flower Cellars in the heart of Covent Garden. The inaugural exhibition ‘Magnum On Set’ will be supported by original artefacts [Read More]
The New York Botanical Garden will host its Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale, now in its 20th year, on April 27–29, 2012. Show hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. As the country’s [Read More]
Sotheby’s London will offer 18 monumental works from the Jerwood Sculpture Collection in its Modern and Post-War British Art Evening and Day Sales on 10th and 11th May 2012. Highlights from the Collection, which has [Read More]
The Hirshhorn Museum presents Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, an exhibition on view April 19, 2012 to February 24, 2013. The Hirshhorn presents “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” a monumental 12-part sculptural suite by Ai Weiwei (Chinese, [Read More]
A selection of 37 objects excavated from the sanctuaries of the ancient city of Morgantina in central Sicily are on display at the Getty Villa in the exhibition The Sanctuaries of Demeter and Persephone at [Read More]
The Speed Art Museum opens Inside|Out, an exhibition on view April 21 – September 23. Deborah Butterfield (American, born 1949), Danuta, 2008. Bronze, Museum Purchase. Photo courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA. Inside|Out is an [Read More]
The National Gallery of Denmark presents German World Images 1890-1930. From Kollwitz to Nolde, a new exhibition on view 20 April – 12 August 2012. Franz Marc. Creation, 1913 (detail) National Gallery of Denmark To [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) presents Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba – Fundacion Costantini, on view April 22–August 5, 2012, an exclusive loan exhibition from one of Latin America’s most important arts [Read More]
Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm presents the first large solo exhibition of the Swedish artist Klara Kristalova. On view 25 April–29 July 2012. Klara Kristalova’s imagery is doubled and multilayered. Motifs revolve around themes of transformation, [Read More]