Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents Medieval to Monet. French Paintings in the Wadsworth Atheneum, an exhibition on view through January 27, 2013. Claude Monet The Beach at Trouville, 1870. Oil on canvas. The Ella [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is excited to launch the iPad specific app MCA Publications today. This app will host the MCA’s digital publications, beginning with the exhibition catalogue Anish Kapoor. Anish Kapoor has [Read More]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia presents Anish Kapoor, an exhibition by the celebrated artist as part of the Sydney International Art Series. Anish Kapoor, My Red Homeland, 2003. Wax and oil-based paint, steel arm and [Read More]
MoMA presents Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925, an exhibition on view from December 23, 2012, to April 15, 2013. Frantisek Kupka. Localization of Graphic Motifs II. 1912–13. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 76 3/8″ (200 x [Read More]
The earliest known home recording to have been made on Christmas Day has been discovered by the Museum of London. The rare collection of recordings, taken over several years, date back to 1902 and capture [Read More]
The very real Santa Train features a half-hour ride down the historic tracks of the Boulder Branch Line aboard the Nevada Southern Railway. The Santa Train runs through 23, every hour on the hour from [Read More]
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum has reopened after a six week closure to repair major damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a military and maritime history [Read More]
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has appointed Alicia Barber to the Nevada Board of Museums and History. Barber is a history professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she directs the University of Nevada Oral [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Bonn presents ERNST WILHELM NAY – THE POLYPHONE PICTURE, Gouaches, Water Colors, Drawings, an exhibition on view through 03.02.2013. Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Sitzende Frau, 1949, Tuschpinsel, weiß gehöht, auf Papier, 50,8 x 56 cm, [Read More]
Heritage Preservation announce that the Housatonic Museum of Art has completed the 2012 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP). The Housatonic Museum of Art joins the 2,800 museums that have participated in CAP in its twenty-two year [Read More]
Whitney Museum of American Art presents American Legends. From Calder to O’Keeffe, an exhibition on view from DECEMBER 22. Charles Demuth My Egypt, 1927. Oil on fiberboard, 35 3/4 × 30 in. (90.8 × 76.2 [Read More]
Van Abbemuseum presents LISSITZKY – KABAKOV Utopia and Reality an exhibition on view through 28/04/2013. The Van Abbemuseum asked the artists Ilya (1933) and Emilia (1945) Kabakov to organise an exhibition of their work together [Read More]
Museum of Cycladic Art opens Princesses of the Mediterranean in the dawn of History, an exhibition on view 13 December 2012 – 10 April 2013. Regal ladies or princesses; priestesses or healers; women of authority [Read More]
On Saturday, December 22, 2012, the LBJ Presidential Library will unveil innovative, state-of-the art exhibits giving visitors a contemporary experience relating to one of the most significant presidents and eras in our country’s history. Following [Read More]
DOYLESTOWN, PA — The James A. Michener Art Museum announces new appointments to its Board of Trustees. As of January 1, 2013, Trustees Bill Aichele, Beth Beans Gilbert, Bill Mandel, Al Pritchard and Bob Welch [Read More]
The Akron Art Museum announce a pledge from museum supporters Rick and Alita Rogers as the lead gift for the design and construction of its long awaited outdoor sculpture garden. The completed outdoor gallery and [Read More]
Robert Frank’s historic photograph Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey (1955) is part of a major group of artworks donated recently to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Other new acquisitions include more than one hundred photographs by Canadian [Read More]
Brandywine River Museum presents exhibition of model trains on view through January 6, 2013. With a collection of trains including 150 locomotives and 300 freight cars that run on nearly 2,000 feet of track, the [Read More]