The Smithsonian and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have begun a seven-year collaboration to develop programs and exhibitions related to innovation for the Arts and Industries Building located on the National Mall between the [Read More]
Daily Archives: January 16, 2013
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Opening Oct. 19 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, “Yoga: The Art of Transformation”—the world’s first exhibition about the discipline’s visual history—will reveal its rich and fascinating meanings, histories and evolution over the past 2,000 [Read More]
Archives of American Art presents A Day at the Museum an exhibition on view through on view through May 16. A day at a museum might involve a whirlwind tour through a maze of galleries [Read More]
The Petersen Automotive Museum announced today that Peter Mullin has been elected Chairman to its Board of Directors. Joining him as Vice Chair are Bruce Meyer, one of the museum’s most ardent supporters and David [Read More]
Oakland Museum announces its annual White Elephant Sale on March 2 and 3, 2013. Salehours are 10 am to 4 pm both days, and admission is free. Organized and presented by the Oakland Museum Women’s [Read More]
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens Nino Migliori Imagined Landscapes. The Places of Morandi, an exhibition on view 16 January – 7 April 2013, of delicately reworked Polaroid images by the renowned Italian [Read More]
The Israel Museum Jerusalem announces Herod the Great. The King’s Final Journey, an exhibition on view February 13, 2013-October 5, 2013. The first exhibition entirely dedicated to Herod the Great, Israel’s greatest builder and one [Read More]
Guangdong Times Museum presents Zizhiqu (Autonomous Regions) on January 20–March 17, 2013. In the current context of geopolitics, Zizhiqu, or Autonomous Regions, refers to at least two possible notions of geopolitical institutions, the first being [Read More]
The History Museum of Western Virginia is developing new gallery space to better showcase it’s significant collection and create a stronger relationship between exhibitions and excellent educational outreach programming. The museum is a repository for [Read More]
Istanbul Modern Modernity? Perspectives from France and Turkey, an exhibition on view, 16 January–16 May 2013, explores the effects of modernity on contemporary visual culture. The exhibition looks into the phenomenon of modernity and the [Read More]
The American Folk Art Museum has announced the appointment of Anne-Imelda Radice as its new director. Dr. Radice, a widely respected cultural sector veteran, brings to the position more than thirty-five years of experience as [Read More]
Tate Britain presents Schwitters in Britain, an exhibition on view 30 January–12 May 2013. Kurt Schwitters, EN MORN, 1947. © DACS 2012. Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN / Bertrand Prévost. Kurt Schwitters was [Read More]
On January 17 the Museum will open “Space Shuttle Enterprise: A Pioneer,” a new exhibition that explores the history of Enterprise and its critical role in the development of the space shuttle. While Enterprise itself [Read More]
DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Thomas Demand. Animations, an exhibition on view January 19–May 12, 2013. Thomas Demand, Pacific Sun, 2012. Video, 2:02 minutes, stereo. Production still. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / [Read More]
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art presents Analogital, an exhibition on view JAN 18 – APR 20, 2013. Analogital is an exhibition of international artists who engage with concepts generated from the transitional space between analogue [Read More]
The Joslyn Art Museum board of governors, current chairman John P. Nelson announced his retirement from the post he has held for the past two years. He is succeeded by Gary Gates, president and chief [Read More]
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art presents Giorgio Morandi Lines of Poetry, an exhibition on view 16 January – 7 April 2013. The Estorick Collection inaugurates its fifteenth-anniversary year with an exhibition of some [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Don’t miss your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the original handwritten texts that shaped western culture and gave rise to Judaism, Christianity and Islam at Cincinnati Museum Center’s blockbuster exhibition, Dead Sea Scrolls: Life [Read More]