New York State Museum presents From New York to the White House, New York Residents Who Became President, an exhibition on view February 15, through Sunday, February 17, 2013. The exhibit features the original draft [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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New Museum presents NYC 1993. Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star an exhibition on view from February 13–May 26, 2013. Gabriel Orozco, Isla en la Isla (Island within an Island), 1993. Silver dye bleach [Read More]
The Hyde Collection announced that Charles A. Guerin, former leader of two major university art museums and a former commissioner of Wyoming State parks and cultural resources, has been appointed director of the Museum. Mr. [Read More]
Vancouver Art Gallery presents Art Spiegelman CO-MIX. A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps on view February 16–June 9, 2013, the first retrospective exhibition of the work of acclaimed comic artist Art Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman, [Read More]
Tennessee State Museum presents Discovering the Civil War, a landmark exhibition from Washington D.C.’s National Archives, on view Feb 12 – Sept 1, 2013. Discovering the Civil War draws on these through letters, diaries, photos, [Read More]
REDCAT presents Slavs and Tatars Friendship of Nations. Polish Shi’ite Showbiz open February 10–March 24, 2013. Slavs and Tatars, Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory, 2011. Courtesy the artists; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; The [Read More]
Bonner Kunstverein presents “Sieht man ja, was es ist” The Editions of the Galerie Erhard Klein 1972–2006 on 19 February–5 May 2013. Rhineland, 1970s: The art scene is flourishing and—with its academies, galleries, a young [Read More]
The National Museum of American History has unveiled a YouTube video that finally answers the age-old question, “What does the tooth fairy do with all of those teeth?” The Tooth Fairy File is a “mockumentary” [Read More]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Board of Directors and board chair Alice Walton have promoted Crystal Bridges Executive Director Don Bacigalupi to the newly created position of president and appointed him to Crystal Bridges [Read More]
The Noguchi Museum, has announced online publication of the second installment of The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, effective February 12, 2013. Isamu Noguchi in his Long Island City studio, 1966. Photo: Jack Mitchell. © The [Read More]
Mingei International Museum presents an exhibition of work by Bill Traylor on view Feb 9, 2013 – May 12, 2013. Bill Traylor (1854?-1949) is one of the best-known and most highly esteemed artists from the [Read More]
The Frick Art & Historical Center presents Piero della Francesca In America, an exhibition on view February 12 through May 19, 2013. Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492), The Crucifixion, 1454–1469. Oil and tempera on poplar panel, [Read More]
Harry Ransom Center presents Arnold Newman. Masterclass, an exhibition on view FEBRUARY 12 – MAY 12, 2013. Over the course of nearly seven decades, Arnold Newman (1918–2006) created iconographic portraits of some of the most [Read More]
Bozar Expo presents a Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) retrospective in collaboration with the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, on view Friday 08.02.2013 – Sunday 12.05.2013. Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), Concert dans le salon ovale de Pierre Crozat [Read More]
Philbrook Museum of Art presents The Hollywood Portraits of George Hurell, an exhibition on view Feb 3 – Jun 30.2013. George Hurrell both captured and created the idealized world of movie glamour, becoming the greatest [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History’s famous gem collection has a new addition: the Cindy Chao Black Label Masterpiece Royal Butterfly Brooch. Cindy Chao Royal Butterfly Brooch Created by Chao in 2009, the brooch will [Read More]
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) announced that it will honor late Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof with its prestigious International Freedom Conductor Award (IFCA). The [Read More]
A new major exhibit entitled “Navigating Freedom: The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake” opens Saturday, May 11 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD. “Admiral Cockburn burning & plundering Havre [Read More]