After leading Swiss Institute for over six years and implementing a highly successful program as well as organizing the relocation of Swiss Institute to its current address on 18 Wooster Street in Manhattan, Director Gianni [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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The University of Alabama’s Natural History Museum is giving students a chance to work with scientists this summer These camps are all part of the museum’s 35th annual Museum Expedition and will primarily focus on [Read More]
Kunsthalle Mainz presents David Claerbout an exhibition on view March 22–June 16, 2013. David Claerbout, Oil workers (of the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain, 2013. Video still. HD [Read More]
New acquisitions in 2013 include: Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design The 2010 “Leaf table” drawing by Joris Laarman, which documents the 3-D prototyping process. The design is based on a computer algorithm that mimics the [Read More]
The Getty Museum is introducing a new parking program that will allow visitors to visit both the Getty Center in Brentwood and the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades on the same day and only pay [Read More]
The National Air and Space Museum will host a robotics program April 5 in Washington, D.C. A full day of activities and presentations will take place between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. and will have [Read More]
30 new partners are joining the Google Art Project, contributing nearly 2,000 diverse works including contemporary art from Latin America, ancient art from China, rare Japanese paintings and Palaeolithic flint heads from Spain. The Art [Read More]
The Smithsonian Institution will join with the Digital Public Library of America to provide links to a wealth of the Institution’s cultural and scientific content. The DPLA pilot project, which combines and centralizes links to [Read More]
Alte Pinakothek presents The Paintings Jan Brueghel the Elder an exhibition on view 22.03.2013 – 16.06.2013. Jan Brueghel the Elder Large Fish Market Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) is one of the most important Flemish [Read More]
Jacquemart-Andre Museum presents the first parisian retrospective since the end of the 19th century devoted to the painter Eugène Boudin, on view March 22nd to July 22nd, 2013. With the participation of major international museums, [Read More]
Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) announced the recipients of the 2013 Sharjah Biennial Prize on March 13 at the opening night of Sharjah Biennial 11, Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, on view through May [Read More]
The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle is displaying J M W Turner’s painting Lowther Castle – Evening. The painting was in family ownership until it was given to the nation through the Acceptance in Lieu [Read More]
Charles Atlas’s video installation MC9 (2012) brings together filmed footage that spans the forty-year collaboration between Atlas and acclaimed dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Charles Atlas, MC9, 2012. Installation view, De Hallen Haarlem, 2012. Photo: [Read More]
Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts presents On Painting. Alex Katz & Félix Vallotton an exhibition on view 22 March–9 June 2013. Alex Katz, Homage to Monet 1, 2009. Oil on canvas, 183 x 366 cm. Courtesy [Read More]
Casa Daros, a space in arenovated 1866 mansion, will house some of the works acquired the past 13 years by Zurich-based collector Ruth Schmidheiny. Working with German curator Hans-Michael Herzog, she combed Latin America at [Read More]
The Museum of the White Mountains has opened in Plymouth, with it’s inaugural exhibit “Passing Through, The Allure of the White Mountains.” Works by 19th century artists Thomas Cole, Benjamin Champney, Frank Shapleigh, Samuel Lancaster [Read More]
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has canceled a concert by band Napalm Death, fearing the noise level could damage the museum’s building. “A further safety inspection has revealed concerns that the high level [Read More]
The Queens Museum of Art is changing its name. The institution is changing its name to the Queens Museum. The renaming accompanies a planned $65-million, 50,000-square-foot expansion that is scheduled to be finished in October. [Read More]