Asian and Pacific Americans make up more than 5 percent of the U.S. population—more than 17 million people—and those numbers are growing. Their ancestral roots represent more than 50 percent of the world, extending from [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
Two sculptures by Surrealist artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) have been placed on long loan to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The massive bronze sculptures, the taller of which measures ten feet in height, [Read More]
Newseum announces JFK Online: From the Newseum Archives,” a web-based interactive exhibit featuring images and video interviews with journalists who covered the assassination, including Walter Cronkite and Ike Pappas. The mission of the Newseum is [Read More]
Nationalmuseum has acquired a terracotta sculpture entitled The Faithful Friendship (La fidèle Amitié), created in 1795 by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf (1742–1826) and exhibited at the Paris Salon that same year. The sculpture portrays [Read More]
Three original Newseum film productions have been honored by the 2013 New York Festivals’ International Television & Film Awards. The awards were announced April 9, 2013, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las [Read More]
Stroom Den Haag presents United We on view 14 April–14 July 2013. WE are those people who are needed to give ideas a place on earth. Anyone can become a funnel for ideas! United We [Read More]
Performa 13 will take place from Friday, November 1st through Sunday, November 24th. The three week program of more than 100 separate events presented at over 40 venues across the city will be announced in [Read More]
Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents The Artist’s Eye: Photographic Portraits of Artists from the collection of the Galleria civica di Modena, an exhibition on view until 7 July 2013. The Artist’s Eye [Read More]
Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents Lewis Glucksman Gallery presents Lost Boys: The Territories of Youth, an exhibition on view until 7 July 2013. Lost Boys looks at the spaces of male adolescence from Irish, European, and [Read More]
NEW CANAAN, Conn. (April 11, 2013) – The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is pleased to announce the opening of E.V. Day’s SNAP!, an exhibition for the building known [Read More]
REDCAT announces The Otolith Group: Medium Earth on view April 21–June 16, 2013. Part prequel and part premonition, Medium Earth is a work caught within its own imminent future. A notebook film that initiates a [Read More]
Based on the controversial, award-winning Chicano novel by acclaimed author Rudolfo Anaya, BLESS ME, ULTIMA is a turbulent coming-of-age story about a young boy, Antonio (Luke Ganalon), growing up in New Mexico during World War [Read More]
WACO Museum & Learning Center in Troy is hosting an Aviation Summer Camp on June 24 to June 28, 9 am to 3 pm, for children in Grades 4-6. Fun, aviation-related activities including a first [Read More]
Morven Museum & Garden present Coastal Impressions: Painters of the Jersey Shore, 1880-1940 an exhibition on view April 26 – September 29, 2013. This exhibition seeks to examine how the New Jersey shore was home [Read More]
The West Virginia State Museum is introducing a new app that gives smartphone and tablet users the ability to get the latest information on programs and services at the state museum just the way they [Read More]
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art announces Disobedience Archive (The Republic) on view April 23–June 30, 2013. After Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Nottingham Contemporary, Raven Row (London), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston) and Bildmuseet [Read More]
Palestinians have laid the groundstone at Birzeit University, near Ramallah on the West Bank, in a ceremony hosted by the Welfare Association with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the guest of honor for the world’s [Read More]
Ten years after Iraq’s national museum was badly damaged during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein, it’s still a long way from being ready for re-opening. Work to overcome decades of neglect [Read More]