PHILADELPHIA — Outside In, the beloved children’s nature discovery center of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, is getting a makeover. When it reopens Saturday, Feb. 8, the hands-on exhibit will feature new play areas and activities that will engage children and their caregivers in the natural world. For many youngsters, a visit […]
The Katonah Museum of Art prompts a debate with a provocative and interactive approach to portraiture in its current, widely popular exhibition, Eye to I…3,000 Years of Portraits, ending in just a few weeks, on February 16. Join us on Saturday, February 1 for Free Admission Day sponsored by Kendal-on-Hudson. Eye to I, which opened […]
The National Postal Museum’s new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery exhibit of “A Stamp for Every Country” has inspired the creation of a new worldwide postage stamp album. The album can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website and invites anyone to start their own collection of almost 800 stamps—one from every country in the […]
WELLESLEY, Mass. – Tony Matelli: New Gravity, the artist’s first solo exhibition at a U.S museum, opens at the Davis Museum on February 5, 2014. Comprised of recent works from the past five years as well as new works created specifically for the Davis, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s discursive use of time, ambivalence, […]
The Biogen Idec Foundation has awarded the Museum of Science, Boston a $2.5 million grant to support its Hall of Human Life exhibition. In addition, the dynamic multi-media laboratory at the exhibit’s focal point will be named the Biogen Idec Foundation Exploration Hub. Payable over five years, this is the largest single grant awarded by […]
Bank of America has announced that it will provide funding, through its global Art Conservation Project, to conserve The Penitent Magdalene, which is among the artist El Greco’s most precious works, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. This conservation work is one of 25 projects in 17 countries around the world that […]
The Dallas Museum of Art announced that it has enrolled nearly 50,000 visitors in its DMA Friends membership program since its launch on January 21, 2013. The nation’s first free museum membership program is available to anyone who wishes to join, and focuses on activating engagement with the Museum and building long-term relationships with visitors. […]
The Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo has acquired Forme rumore di motocicletta (1913-1914, oil and gouache on paper, 73 x 101 cm) by Giacomo Balla (1871-1957), thanks to the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Rembrandt Association, SNS REAAL Fund, VSB Foundation and the Mondriaan Foundation. The painting, which comes from a private collection, has been […]
As an anchor and investor in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood, an educational resource for students and residents of Detroit, the tri-county area and all of Michigan and a provider of creative programs for numerous social service and community organizations in the City of Detroit and beyond, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is pleased to confirm […]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of thirteen photographs from the height of Pictorialist photography around 1900, including some of the period’s most iconic photographs. Seven photographers are represented in the acquisition: Edward Steichen, Heinrich Kühn, George Seeley, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Baron Adolph de Meyer, Gertrude Käsebier, and Clarence H. White. The acquisition […]
Kunsthalle Wien present Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Das Wunder des Lebens (The Miracle of Life), the first solo exhibition in Austria by the Belgian artists on view 7 February–4 May 2014. The two artists have been working together since the 1980s and have developed a highly individual oeuvre which includes videos, sculptures, drawings, […]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition in the United States in over four decades devoted solely to the photographic work of the acclaimed Canadian artist Michael Snow, on February 1–April 27, 2014. One of the most influential experimental filmmakers of his generation, Snow is known and admired for his multi-disciplinary approach […]
