The Franklin Institute is organizing the 2nd Annual Philadelphia Science Festival, which will take place April 20-29. This ten-day community-wide celebration of science will include an outdoor science carnival, lectures, debates, hands-on activities, and a [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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From 8 May, the Rijksmuseum will be exhibiting a selection of 30 works from two new donations of Japanese prints. Luxury, subtlety, technical perfection, expressiveness and, of course, beautiful Japanese women all feature prominently in [Read More]
The Frick Collection will present Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier). The painting has not left its home institution, the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena, CA, in nearly forty years, making this [Read More]
The Columbia Museum of Art is honored to be the recipient of 594 works of art from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, internationally recognized collectors of contemporary art. This substantial collection represents work in various media [Read More]
The Hood Museum of Art Explores José Clemente Orozco’s Impact on Jackson Pollock’s Early Work, in an exhibition on view from April 7 through June 17, 2012, with an opening reception on Friday, April 13, [Read More]
One of the most acclaimed astronaut-authors, Tom Jones, will be at the Museum on April 24 from 2 to 5 p.m. to sign copies of his books. The four-time shuttle astronaut is the author of [Read More]
The Nationalmuseum’s in Stockholm collection of 19th-century silver has expanded with the addition of three new acquisitions, all made in Gustaf Möllenborg’s workshop in Stockholm. The oldest of the objects is a late Empire mantel [Read More]
The King Survey of the Great Basin, from 1867 to 1872, was the model for the other “great surveys” of the 19th-century American West. Rare and iconic works by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, the King Survey’s [Read More]
The US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA announced its annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions. [Read More]
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have announced that John Max Rosenfield, Harvard Professor Emeritus of East Asian Art, will be awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal in recognition of his [Read More]
Despite increased recognition of the cultural significance of modern architecture, there is still a dearth of information on how best to conserve it. The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles announced a new international [Read More]
Google announce its partnership with the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, and the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, bringing a number of the museums’ top works online with the innovative [Read More]
The Villa Bardini presents a large and valuable collection of over 100 paintings by famous artisits including Fattori, Signorini, Giuseppe Abbati, Eugenio Cecconi, Vito D’Ancona, Oscar Ghiglia, Ulvi Liege, Llewelyn Lloyd. On view April 1 [Read More]
The Roebling Museum is to present a Titanic exhibition ‘Calm Heroism: Washington A. Roebling ll and the Titanic Disaster.’ on view from April 7, 2012, the story and heroics of Washington Roebling ll on the [Read More]
The Winding House museum in New Tredegar, Wales presents The Titanic, the Mill and the Signal. Artie Moore and Titanic’s SOS, an ew exhibition on view from Good Friday, 6th April and will be on [Read More]
In celebration of its 10th-anniversary year, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents the exhibition In the Still Epiphany, on view from April 5 to October 27, 2012. Artist Gedi Sibony is creating a large-scale, [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum presents the Rylands Hagaddah, an important medieval hebrew manuscript from the collection of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, England, will be displayed in the Gallery for Western European Art from [Read More]
The Crisis Commission presents an art exhibition at Somerset House in London, on view now through 22 April, 2012. Anthony Caro, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Nika Neelova, Yinka Shonibare, Bob and Roberta Smith, [Read More]