The David Geffen Foundation has made a donation of $25 Million for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum scheduled to open in 2017 next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [Read More]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
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Plans for an Oak Ridge railroad museum are in doubt after officials announced that bids for the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum building came in higher than expected, at nearly $1 million. Members of the railway [Read More]
Open-source electronics company littleBits present their tiny gadgets to the art world at New York’s Museum of Modern Art Design Stores. The company, which creates systems of LEGO-like electronics that snap together with magnets, featured [Read More]
Artist Michael Thompson also known as Freestylee, will give a talk, “The Poster, the Creative Activist, and Positive Change,” Sunday at the Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley. The Easton-based designer, formerly from the [Read More]
An up-to-now unknown Proun painting by the Russian artist El Lissitzky (1890 – 1941) will be exhibited in the Lissitzky – Kabakov, Utopia and Reality exhibition from Tuesday 9 April. El Lissitkzy, Proun Vrashchenia, ca. [Read More]
Indianapolis Museum of Art announce the launch of the digital catalogue for the exhibition Graphite, the first major museum exhibition to explore graphite as a medium in works beyond drawings. The show includes sculpture, drawing, [Read More]
Tate Modern presents Saloua Raouda Choucair an exhibition on view 17 April–20 October 2013. Comprising over 120 works, many of which have never been seen before and are being exhibited for the first time, this [Read More]
EYE presents Johan van der Keuken / Up to the light. Filmmaker and photographer on view March 30–June 9, 2013. The exhibition’s line of approach is the extraordinary way in which van der Keuken brought [Read More]
San Francisco Art Institute announces ¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video Art on view April 19–June 8, 2013. Alexandre Arrechea, White Corner, 2006. Video installation. Courtesy Kadist Art Foundation. ¡Oye, Mira!: Reflective [Read More]
Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art presents Harun Farocki: Playing the Game on view April 12–June 9, 2013. The internationally celebrated filmmaker and artist is one of the most prominent representatives of experimental film in Germany. Alongside [Read More]
On Monday, April 8, St. Michaels High School students came to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD to plant native salt marsh hay and cord grass along CBMM’s newly extended living [Read More]
The UMFA, in collaboration with the University of Utah’s Department of Film and Media Studies, the Dia Art Foundation, and The Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College, would like to invite you to a [Read More]
Major demolition is under way in Berkeley on the site of the new location for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Rendering of the design for the Oxford-Addison corner of the new BAM/PFA [Read More]
The Suquamish Museum and Cultural Center, has a performance space, museum store, plus an art gallery that features the work of 20 tribal artists, including intricate masks in the coastal Salish style. The Suquamish Museum [Read More]
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presentss Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer’s Japanese Illustrated Books an exhibition on view April 6–August 11, 2013. Woodblock-printed illustrated books became key sources of knowledge and entertainment in Japan during the Edo period [Read More]
The Museum of Wisconsin Art has reopened in a new facility. The 31,000-square-foot building houses the Museum and its collection, serves as a living showcase for Wisconsin art, and plays a significant role in the [Read More]
Brooklyn Museum presents John Singer Sargent Watercolors an exhibition on view April 5–July 28, 2013. John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Gourds, 1908. Opaque and translucent watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 14 x 22 in. (35.6 x [Read More]
Green Hill Center for NC Art presents Independents an exhibition on view April 5 – June 2, 2013, showing paintings by Brett Baker, Mark Brown, Ashlynn Browning, Bonnie Melton & Philip Lopez Independents examines the [Read More]