The Museum of the White Mountains has opened in Plymouth, with it’s inaugural exhibit “Passing Through, The Allure of the White Mountains.” Works by 19th century artists Thomas Cole, Benjamin Champney, Frank Shapleigh, Samuel Lancaster [Read More]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
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The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has canceled a concert by band Napalm Death, fearing the noise level could damage the museum’s building. “A further safety inspection has revealed concerns that the high level [Read More]
The Queens Museum of Art is changing its name. The institution is changing its name to the Queens Museum. The renaming accompanies a planned $65-million, 50,000-square-foot expansion that is scheduled to be finished in October. [Read More]
The Museum of the American Railroad announces it has moved a locomotive to its new Frisco site. On Tuesday morning, a team began unloading two antique that were transported to the new site by flatcar [Read More]
Initially opened in 1976, then closed in 2011, the museum celebrating Philadelphia’s Great Man was supposed to be ready for the summer tourist season after a $23.1 million modernization. The reopening this summer of the [Read More]
Walker Art Center presents Abraham Cruzvillegas. The Autoconstruccion Suites on view March 23–September 22, 2013, the first contextual exhibition on the multi-faceted practice of Abraham Cruzvillegas. A key artist among his generation, Cruzvillegas has garnered [Read More]
Creative Time / MTA Arts for Transit present Nick Cave HEARD•NY from March 25 to 31, a major project that will transform New York City’s Grand Central Terminal with 30 life-size, multi-colored horses, peacefully “grazing” [Read More]
The Great Gatsby celebrates Long Island’s fabulous Gold Coast era with a return to Nassau County Museum of Art’s own historic Gold Coast estate. Journal Co-Chair Becky Creavin, Ball Chairman Angela Susan Anton, Journal Co-Chair [Read More]
Huntsville Museum of Art presents Art in Bloom including includeding floral demonstrations, bourbon tasting party, talk by floral designer to Lady Di and Lady Gaga. Art in Bloom will begin with a preview event on [Read More]
Cleveland Museum of Natural History presents a shark exhibit on view March 16 through Sept. 1, 2013. Discover the evolution, biology and misconceptions of Megalodon, an enormous prehistoric shark that once cruised all the world’s [Read More]
Kathy Walsh-Piper has announced her retirement as director of The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky. Walsh-Piper, 65, came to the University of Kentucky after posts at the Dallas Museum of Art, the National [Read More]
Spectacle. The Music Video opens at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on April 3, 2013, through June 16, 2013. Grizzly Bear “Ready, Able” (2009) by Allison Schulnik. Courtesy of the artist. [Read More]
Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux is a new exhibit at the Field Museum, on view through Sept. 8. Hundreds of paintings of animals — and just one human — adorned [Read More]
Kate Haw, currently vice president for development at the National Building Museum, has been named the director of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, effective May 27. The Archives, founded in Detroit in 1954, became [Read More]
DOYLESTOWN, PA – The James A. Michener Art Museum will present a memorial exhibition of the artwork of Holly Berry Huynh in the museum’s Education Gallery April 7 through 22, kicking off the Holly Berry [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum announced its official sponsorship of PostalVision 20/20 3.0 (www.postalvision2020.com), a conference to explore positioning America for the new millennium through a constructive approach to reinvent the U.S. Postal Service to [Read More]
A 12-year-old boy who showed his artwork to Canadian paper sculptor Calvin Nicholls during a Night Out @ the Woodson program on March 8 gave Calvin a carefully folded paper phoenix, unaware that it was [Read More]
Brandywine River Museum presents Andrew Wyeth’s “Ides of March”: The Making of a Masterpiece on view March 16 through May 19, 2013. Andrew Wyeth Ides of March, 1974 tempera on panel, © Andrew Wyeth. Collection [Read More]