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 […]
The Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station is sponsoring the Museum Ships Weekend Event on 1-2 June 2013 (GMT/UTC). The goal of the event is to get as many museum ships on the air on amateur radio frequencies as possible worldwide. Ninety ships/museums are scheduled to participate so far. The mission of the Battleship New […]
The Corning Museum of Glass unveiled the final design of its North Wing expansion, which is expected to open in late 2014. Designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, the addition will include a new 26,000-square-foot contemporary art gallery building, as well as a new 500-seat glassmaking demonstration venue in the renovated facility of the former […]
HIWAR | Conversations in Amman is an exhibition, residencies, and talks program organized by Darat al Funun to celebrate 25 years of support for the arts. HIWAR brings 14 artists from the Arab world, Africa, Asia, and Latin America to Amman for residencies in September and October 2013, culminating in an exhibition opening on 9 […]
The Israel Museum presents Yehudit Sasportas: Seven Winters an exhibition on view May 29, 2013-October 19, 2013. Beauty and mystery envelop every single part of this complex installation by Yehudit Sasportas, a prominent Israeli artist who lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv, and for whom this is the first solo exhibition in an […]
A major European painting acquisition is now on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Dream of Spring by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, one of the most successful late 19th-century French artists, has been added to the museum’s permanent collection as a charitable gift. The painting was promised to the IMA by philanthropists Melvin and Bren Simon […]
