The National Air and Space Museum announced that it will receive a $6 million donation from the Thomas W. Haas Foundation to establish an endowment for its Public Observatory Program. It is the largest donation [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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The Terra Foundation for American Art announced today the recent acquisition of Bar-b-que by pioneering African American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Created in 1942, the gouache-on-paper painting belongs to Lawrence’s thematic group of work about [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will undertake a major project to regild Diana, the thirteen-foot-tall sculpture of the Roman goddess by Augustus Saint-Gaudens that commands the Museum’s Great Stair Hall and was once mounted atop [Read More]
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents Francis Alys. GIBRALTAR FOCUS an exhibition on view June 29–September 8, 2013. Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River took place in 2008 in the [Read More]
Project Arts Centre presents Mario Garcia Torres Until it Makes Sense on 5 July–17 August 2013. Thought of as a number of episodes, this dynamic revolving project will generate a series of exhibitions. Each chapter [Read More]
AFRICOBRA in Chicago A collaboration between The South Side Community Art Center, the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, and The DuSable Museum of African American History AfriCOBRA (African Commune Of Bad Relevant [Read More]
The 47th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature a variety of fun and interactive family activities, including crafts and food demonstrations, as well as music and dance performances. The Festival will be held Wednesday, June [Read More]
Serpentine Gallery presents Continuous City: Mapping Arab London on 4–5 July 2013. The Pop-Up Mathaf returns to London for two days to re-imagine the city’s historical, contemporary and fictional Arab presence. In light of the [Read More]
DOYLESTOWN, PA-The James A. Michener Art Museum kicked off its 25th anniversary year with a Founders Celebration Saturday, June 15. More than 200 attended the gala cocktail reception in the museum’s Edgar N. Putman Pavilion, [Read More]
Nouveau Musee National de Monaco presents Erik Bulatov Paintings and Drawings 1966-2013 a retrospective selection, on view June 28–September 29, 2013, consisting of 30 large paintings and about 40 drawings. Erik Bulatov was born in [Read More]
New Bedford Whaling Museum presents Arctic Visions an exhibition exploreing the intersections between art, science and exploration through the work of Fairhaven artist William Bradford (1823-1892). Highlights of the exhibit include an unparalleled collection of [Read More]
Interruption is the 30th edition of the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. Open 14 September–24 November 2013. This installation considers the evolutionary graphic field of contemporary times. Printerly processes touch many types of present-day art. [Read More]
Calvert 22 presents Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 an exhibition on view 26 June–25 August 2013 . The connections between the visual arts and experimental music were [Read More]
M – Museum Leuven presents Ugo Rondinone thank you silence an exhibition on view June 27–October 6, 2013. The paintings of Ilse D’Hollander (1968–1997, Sint-Niklaas) resulted from a personal search for the medium of painting. [Read More]
M – Museum Leuven presents Ilse D’Hollander an exhibition on view June 27–October 20, 2013. The paintings of Ilse D’Hollander (1968–1997, Sint-Niklaas) resulted from a personal search for the medium of painting. Via meticulous observation [Read More]
The largest and most ambitious project to be undertaken by the National Gallery of Victoria will open November 2013. Celebrating the latest art, architecture, design, fashion and dance produced in this city, Melbourne Now will [Read More]
In conjunction with the opening of James Turrell, the Guggenheim has announced the official launch of its mobile app, which offers an array of multimedia content to users both at the museum and at home [Read More]
The Irvine Museum presents Mastering the Medium: Works on Paper an exhibition on view through September 19, 2013. Mastering the Medium: Works on Paper features a wide selection of drawings, some of which are simply [Read More]