The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD has named four college students as museum interns for the summer. Joining CBMM are Center for Chesapeake Studies (CCS) /folk life intern Veronica Lathroum, curatorial [Read More]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
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MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna presents Self-portraits. Inscriptions of the Feminine in Contemporary Italian Art an exhibition on view through September 2013. The exhibition presents works by forty-three successful artists, all except [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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. [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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. [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
Tate Britain presents Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life an exhibition on view 26 June – 20 October 2013. Focusing on the best of Lowry’s urban scenes and industrial landscapes including Tate’s Coming Out [Read More]
fter more than two decades at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, James A. Bridenstine announced Monday, June 24, 2013 he will retire as Executive Director. “It has been an incredibly satisfying experience to serve the [Read More]
Whitney Museum of American Art presents Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977), by California Light and Space artist Robert Irwin, is a large-scale installation that uniquely engages the Whitney’s [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History announced today that it has reached a 50-year loan agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to transfer a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton to the Smithsonian for eventual display [Read More]