Under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., non-violent protest became the defining feature of the modern civil rights movement in America. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will open an exhibition recognizing King’s extraordinary impact […]
Daily Archives: June 28, 2013
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) present Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art an exhibition on view June 28–October 27, 2013. Co-organized by the Contemporary […]
The National Gallery in London presents Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure an exhibition on view 26 June – 8 September 2013. This exhibition combining the art of Vermeer and his contemporaries […]
U.S. Air Force pilots host screenings of “Fighter Pilot 3D: Operation Red Flag” SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight’s William M. Allen Theater re-opens July 6 after extensive renovations and technical upgrades. Celebrating the grand […]
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts presents YAP MAXXI 2013 – Young Architects Program open 26 June–20 October 2013. It’s large, light, yellow and suspended over the MAXXI piazza from 26 June 2013. […]
Kunsthalle Wien is one of Austria’s most prominent institutions for contemporary art. Its two exhibition venues are located within Museumsquartier and in Vienna’s city centre at Karlsplatz. The institution’s internationally recognized exhibition programme of group […]
Dunedin Public Art Gallery presents AMONG THE MACHINES on view 6 July–3 November 2013. AMONG THE MACHINES challenges thirteen contemporary artists to document a twenty-first century in which machines, humans and nature have come together. […]
Guangdong Times Museum presents One Step Forward, Two Steps Back — Us and Institution, Us as Institution open June 29–August 11, 2013. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back — Us and Institution, Us as Institution […]
Vietnam veteran pilot recalls saving the day over North Vietnam SEATTLE – Flying over North Vietnam on March 10, 1967, just north of Hanoi, U.S. Air Force pilot Bob Pardo and his wingman’s F-4 fighters […]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Brooklyn Museum will co-host a daylong program to help New York-area residents identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away […]
The National Museum of American History will feature a 19th-century fire pumper—a predecessor to the modern fire engine—at its Constitution Avenue entrance beginning June 27. It will be paired with a Conestoga wagon and tell […]
The Smithsonian Latino Center will begin its 2013 Latino Museum Studies Program in Washington, D.C., July 1, marking the 17th year of this professional-development opportunity for graduate students. Each year the Latino Center selects 15 […]