The National Gallery in London presents Birth of a Collection: Masterpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts an outstanding collection of Old Master and 19th-century paintings, on view 22 May – 1 September 2013. [Read More]
Daily Archives: May 24, 2013
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is campaigning to save one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Bretton Estate and transform it into a gallery space. The 270-year-old YSP Chapel is in an urgent state of [Read More]
The Menil Collection presents Late Surrealism an exhibition on view May 24 – August 25, 2013. Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement that began in the early twentieth century. Centered in Paris and interested [Read More]
Pat Steir has created three new paintings to be exhibited at the National Academy Museum. On view from May 23 through September 8, 2013, the artist’s most recent works—Orange, Green, andYellow, which measure 132 x [Read More]
Centre for the Living Arts presents Futures Project a nine-month program that will examine future possibilities for the Gulf Coast, with focus areas that are both expected and unexpected on view May—December 2013). Futures Project [Read More]
The Museum of Aviation has “gone green” with 100% of their power supplied by renewable energy from Flint Energies. With this final agreement between the RAFB Office of Civil Engineering and Flint Energies, the Air [Read More]
One of the greatest masterpieces of British art, Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831, has been secured for the British public through major grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund (£15.8 million), the Art Fund [Read More]
The New York State Museum has added two important artifacts to its current exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War. The artifacts include [Read More]
A professional development programme for a young generation of gallerists, organized by de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, and The Fair Gallery. Presented at Liste Art Fair Basel, 10–16 June 2013. 2012 saw the advent of [Read More]
Glasgow International (Festival of Visual Art) will return for its sixth edition in April 2014, under the guidance of new Director Sarah McCrory, on 4 April–21 April 2014. The festival will continue to showcase Glasgow [Read More]
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain presents Altars of Madness an exhibition on view 18 May–15 September 2013. Extreme metal emerged in the second half of the 1980s through three distinct musical genres with different [Read More]
Saturday, June 1, 2 to 4:30 p.m. Lecture and Book Signing “The Story of Amelia Earhart” with David K. Bowman Based on his book of the same name, David K. Bowman’s “The Story of Amelia [Read More]
Laznia Centre For Contemporary Art presents Politics: I don’t like it, but it likes me on view through 2 June 2013. Artists: Jairo Alfonso, Alexandre Arrechea, Tomasz Bajer, Carlos Boix, Brumaria, Los Carpinteros, Fernando Sánchez [Read More]
Richard Koshalek, director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, announced his resignation; no departure date has been set. Koshalek became director of the Hirshhorn in April 2009. The announcement followed the museum’s board [Read More]
The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access is hosting two online education conferences for teachers and students June 12 and July 10 that showcase astrophotography as a prime example of the intersection of these [Read More]
American Art Museum presents A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum showcasing 113 photographs selected from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection, on view from June 28 through Jan. 5, [Read More]