Members of the Frederick Douglass Day committee recently gathered at the Talbot County Courthouse in preparation for the second Frederick Douglass Day celebration, set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
4472 posts
The Speed Art Museum presents Renoir to Chagall. Paris and the Allure of Color, an exhibition on view February 3 – May 6. Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917,)DETAIL Dancer Adjusting Her Shoe, 1885. Charcoal and pastel [Read More]
International Museum of Women ( IMOW ) presents MAMA. Motherhood Around the Globe, an online exhibition on view at http://mama.imow.org/mamatobe. The exhibition will showcase original creative works, including art, film, music, photography, essays and interviews, [Read More]
Kevin Salatino, 55, director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, has been named the Hannah and Russel Kully Director of Art Collections at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. [Read More]
SEATTLE – On the eve of the 50th anniversary of astronaut John Glenn’s historic orbital flight, historian Roger Launius’ Feb. 19 presentation at the Museum will reconsider the Project Mercury space program and the individuals [Read More]
As its way to celebrate Black History Month this year, the Stax Music Academy (SMA) is presenting an original, Broadway-style musical production, “Welcome to Soulsville,” on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at the Cannon Center for [Read More]
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) and the American West Center (AWC) at the University of Utah are pleased to present At Work: Prints from the Great Depression, an [Read More]
STAR TREK actor Robert Picardo beamed into the Saint Louis Science Center last Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2012 and provided fans with an inside glimpse into his popular role as “The Doctor” on STAR [Read More]
FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE in collaboration with the George Eastman House (Rochester, USA), home of the archive of that name, is presenting a retrospective of the work of the American photographer Lewis Hine (Wisconsin, 1874–New York, 1940), [Read More]
The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago announces Feast. Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art an exhibition on view February 16–June 10, 2012. Mella Jaarsma, “I Eat You Eat Me,” 2002. Photographic documentation [Read More]
The KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents YOU KILLED ME FIRST The Cinema of Transgression, February–9 April 2012. Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses—the films of the Cinema of [Read More]
The Byzantine & Christian Museum presents an exhibition at Athens International Airpor, on view through April 30th, 2012. The Byzantine Museum completed one year ago its new Permanent Exhibition of the Museum’s Collections, which was [Read More]
Matthias Waschek, director of the Worcester Art Museum, has named Susan L. Stoops to serve as Interim Chief Curator, effective immediately. Stoops is the Curator of Contemporary Art and will retain those responsibilities in addition [Read More]
The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland presents Mark Rothko. Selections from the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition on view FEBRUARY 4 – APRIL 22, 2012. Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1952, Oil on canvas, National [Read More]
The Qatar Museums Authority presents Murakami – Ego a new exhibition by Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami, on View February 9 – June 24, 2012 in Doha, Qatar. Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) is proud to announce [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life [Read More]
The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye an exhibition on view 9 February–13 May 2012. Edvard Munch (1863–1944) is acclaimed for his emotional Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. [Read More]
As part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundations yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s desert masterpiece in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Foundation is hosting a reception on February 16th at [Read More]