In honor of 12 Years a Slave’s nine Academy Award nominations, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is offering guided Solomon Northup tours all day, Saturday, March 1, as part of Oscar weekend. Tours start every hour on the hour, beginning at 11 a.m. The final tour is at 4 p.m. Each tour lasts approximately […]
An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Painting opens at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburg, Penn., this Saturday. This exhibition features 50 paintings by American artists from the nation’s early years of independence through the dawn of the 20th century, and includes major artists and movements from the Peale family and […]
Kunsthaus Zurich presents Alberto Giacometti Drawings and Watercolours an exhibition on view 28 February – 25 May 2014. With the Bruno Giacometti bequest of 2012 to the Kunsthaus Zürich came a group of works covering the entire career of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), from the early years in Stampa to his Paris period, which has long […]
The Smithsonian Latino Center is now accepting applications for the 2014 Young Ambassadors Program June 22 through Aug. 1. The application deadline is April 7, before 5 p.m. EDT. The Young Ambassadors Program is a national program for graduating high school seniors aimed at fostering the next generation of Latino leaders in the arts, sciences […]
MoMA PS1 presents the most comprehensive survey of painter Maria Lassnig (b. 1919, Austria) organized in the United States, an exhibition on view March 9–May 25. The presentation includes over seventy major works spanning almost seven decades, most of which are being exhibited for the first time in the U.S. Organized by Peter Eleey, Maria […]
Author Betsy Case and guest Sandra Jeffcoat share Boeing women’s stories SEATTLE – Betsy Case, author of “Trailblazers: The Women of the Boeing Company,” will tell stories about the courageous women aviators and engineers who helped make Boeing the great company it is today. Case will be joined by Boeing engineer and technical fellow Sandra […]
Tate Liverpool present Keywords: Art, Society and Culture in 1980s Britain Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist on view 28 February–11 May 2014. Tate Liverpool presents an exhibition based on Raymond Williams’ seminal book Keywords – A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Williams distinguished keywords as those words that repeatedly crop up in our discussion of ‘the […]
Wine aficionados and novices alike can experience the historic, waterfront town of St. Michaels, MD with more than 300 international, domestic, and Maryland wines during the 5th annual WineFest at St Michaels this April 26 and 27. “Wines from Around the World” is this year’s theme, and will be carried out among the historic district’s […]
The Museum Frieder Burda presents JR an exhibition open March 1–June 29, 2014. The French artist JR (*1983) is one of the most innovative representatives of contemporary art on the international scene. He lives and works in Paris and New York, and he consciously keeps his true identity a secret. He applies his oversized black-and-white […]
S.M.A.K. presents Richard Jackson Ain’t Painting a Pain on view 1 March–1 June 2014. Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain is the first retrospective devoted to one of the most radical artists of the last 40 years. Richard Jackson (b. 1939; Sacramento, California) has expanded the possibilities of painting more than any other contemporary figure. […]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art present Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910 on view March 2–May 26, 2014. The first comprehensive survey in the United States devoted to the art of the celebrated Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), an era that profoundly shaped the culture of Korea in ways that continue to […]
The McNay Art Museum has announced a rare and important addition to the museum’s notable collection of French paintings. Portrait of Madame H. M. Barzun by Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), now on view, is a bequest of Jacques Barzun. A Cubist work, the portrait dates to 1911, the year before Gleizes and fellow artist Jean Metzinger […]
