The National Museum of American History recently acquired archival materials from the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors – National Auxiliary, which tell the story of both women’s history and small business. The collection includes organizational records and 27 [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 27, 2013
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Auto-safety innovations and initiatives, including the “Jaws of Life,” will join the National Museum of American History’s permanent research collections. They illustrate the evolution of automobile safety and represent technological achievements such as portable rescue [Read More]
Milwaukee Art Museum presents Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America on view February 22, 2013–May 19, 2013. Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910-1990), A cross roads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station [Read More]
Metropolitan Museum presents At War with the Obvious Photographs by William Eggleston on view February 26—July 28, 2013. William Eggleston (American, born 1939), Untitled, 1971. Dye-transfer print, 31.1 x 47.7 cm (12 1/4 x 18 [Read More]
Craft and Folk Art Museum presents Scratching the Surface. Contemporary Wood Sculpture on view through May 5, 2013. The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents Scratching the Surface: Contemporary Wood Sculpture, an exhibition featuring the [Read More]
Malmo Konsthall presents STILL FIGHTING IGNORANCE & INTELLECTUAL PERFIDY Video art from Africa on view 2 March – 7 April 2013. [SFIP] Project Project [SFIP] is a multi-national exhibition process and a platform for critical [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dirk H. Breiding as the J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of Arms and Armor. Currently an Assistant Curator in the Arms and Armor Department at the [Read More]
Oceans is an artwork by Tania Kovats that collects together water from all the world’s oceans and seas, gathered with the help of a global network of people drawn in by the idea of bringing [Read More]
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents Vadim Zakharov / Niklas Nitschke on view 5 March–28 April 2013. Since 2009, Vadim Zakharov (b. 1959) and Niklas Nitschke (b. 1971) have worked together under the name OBAMAINBERLIN travelling [Read More]
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents Ursula Biemann Egyptian Chemistry—Deep Weather—Sahara Chronicle on view 2 March–28 April 2013. Ursula Biemann, Egyptian Chemistry, 2012. Photo: Ursula Biemann. The exhibition Egyptian Chemistry—Deep Weather—Sahara Chronicle at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein [Read More]
The Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP, French national centre for the visual arts) and the CENTRALE for contemporary art (Brussels) present THE CAUSES OF THINGS. open March 7–June 9 2013, Taking its title from [Read More]
Americas Society presents Painting After Representation a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Prussian Blue-Memory After Representation: Yishai Jusidman on Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30pm. Archival Station at Prussian Blue – Memory After Representation: [Read More]
Pulitzer Prize winning author Dr. Alan Taylor will lead a discussion on “How Escaped Slaves Liberated the British” on Wednesday, April 10 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD. The program [Read More]
Dayton Art Institute presents Storm, Watershed & Riverbank. Three Exhibitions Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 1913 Flood an event that changed the physicality and focus of cities along Ohio’s Great Miami River on view [Read More]