The new development of Tate Modern has been awarded £5 million from the Wolfson Foundation, a charity which gives grants to excellence in the fields of the arts and the humanities, science, medicine and disability. [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation an exhibition on view through April 12 through June 30. To the public, it’s a reminder of a bygone era of instant [Read More]
The Walt Disney Family Museum presents the exhibition “Camille Rose Garcia: Down the Rabbit Hole.” On view from May 9 through November 3, 2013, this art exhibition in San Francisco features some 40 works by [Read More]
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced the acquisition of two rare Maya Palenque-style ceramic censer stands. Typical of the Maya late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) and dated to about A.D. 690–720, Censer Stand [Read More]
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science recently achieved a four Green Globes® rating from the Green Building Initiative for its sustainability practices. The museum’s achievement is a rare feat — only 12 out of [Read More]
Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) presents The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century City an exhibition on view April 17–September 2, 2013. This new exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents [Read More]
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum announces that the Georgia O’Keeffe painting entitled “Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s II, 1930” is part of a brand new series of stamps issued in March by the [Read More]
The MIT List Visual Arts Center announces a new exhibition series, List Projects, starting in May 2013. As an ongoing program of exhibitions and presentations, List Projects will support the work of younger artists at [Read More]
Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory presents Tadasu Takamine Japan Syndrome – Utrecht Version an exhibition on view 27 April–6 July 2013. For its first exhibition of the year Casco presents a performative [Read More]
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art present SIGNS TAKEN IN WONDER: Searching for Contemporary Istanbul on view until April 21, 2013. The MAK exhibition SIGNS TAKEN IN WONDER: Searching for Contemporary [Read More]
Asian and Pacific Americans make up more than 5 percent of the U.S. population—more than 17 million people—and those numbers are growing. Their ancestral roots represent more than 50 percent of the world, extending from [Read More]
Two sculptures by Surrealist artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) have been placed on long loan to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The massive bronze sculptures, the taller of which measures ten feet in height, [Read More]
Newseum announces JFK Online: From the Newseum Archives,” a web-based interactive exhibit featuring images and video interviews with journalists who covered the assassination, including Walter Cronkite and Ike Pappas. The mission of the Newseum is [Read More]
Nationalmuseum has acquired a terracotta sculpture entitled The Faithful Friendship (La fidèle Amitié), created in 1795 by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf (1742–1826) and exhibited at the Paris Salon that same year. The sculpture portrays [Read More]
Three original Newseum film productions have been honored by the 2013 New York Festivals’ International Television & Film Awards. The awards were announced April 9, 2013, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las [Read More]
Stroom Den Haag presents United We on view 14 April–14 July 2013. WE are those people who are needed to give ideas a place on earth. Anyone can become a funnel for ideas! United We [Read More]
Performa 13 will take place from Friday, November 1st through Sunday, November 24th. The three week program of more than 100 separate events presented at over 40 venues across the city will be announced in [Read More]
Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents The Artist’s Eye: Photographic Portraits of Artists from the collection of the Galleria civica di Modena, an exhibition on view until 7 July 2013. The Artist’s Eye [Read More]