The “Become a Pilot” family day and aviation display, held annually at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., is expected to feature a star attraction this year: Solar Impulse. The innovative aircraft, now on a pioneering tour—“Solar Impulse Across America”—is anticipated to land at nearby Washington Dulles International […]
Missouri History Museum presents Between Two Worlds: Veterans Journey Home an exhibition on view April 13, 2013 – October 20, 2013. Between Two Worlds: Veterans Journey Home explores the struggle of 20th-century soldiers to stay connected to home, to thrive while separated from their loved ones, and to eventually transition back into home life. Through […]
Introducing Giganotosaurus! Ultimate Dinosaurs opens June 13 CINCINNATI – You’re familiar with the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex, now meet his bigger, badder “cousin” from the Southern Hemisphere, Giganotosaurus! As installation continues for Cincinnati Museum Center’s new blockbuster exhibition, Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana, workers completed a major step today – attaching the head of Giganotosaurus to […]
National Museum of American History presents Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes and Curios an exhibition beginning Aug. 9. The display will feature a selection of diminutive and personal objects that Americans have taken, made and saved as historical mementos from the Early Republic up to the present day. Many of the postcards, structural fragments such as […]
The Whitney presents the U.S. premiere of The Jugglers, June 24th 2012, David Hockney’s first video installation. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, the work will be shown in the Museum’s second-floor Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery, from May 23 through September 1, 2013. A group of twelve […]
The Israel Museum presents Displaced Visions: Emigre Photographers of the 20th Century an exhibition on view May 28, 2013-September 29, 2013. Many of the 20th century’s key figures in photography, such as André Kertész, Brassai, Bill Brandt, Man Ray, and Robert Frank among others, were immigrants – people uprooted from their native countries, whether by […]
Contemporary Wing presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Teo Gonzalez on view 05/31/2013 to Sat, 06/29/2013. González’s minimal paintings have historically juxtaposed chaos and order, movement and static, or depth and flatness. For this new series, González states that his “source of inspiration has been the night sky, those images of deep space […]
