The Noguchi Museum presents a retrospective exhibition of the sculptural work of Gonzalo Fonseca (1922–97), an important Uruguayan-born modernist who for forty years was based in New York City, where he created some of the most enchanting, idea-rich sculptures of the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition will encompass some 80 objects dating […]
Members of the media and community partners are invited to preview The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Bernard and Shirley Kinsey have a passion for African American history, art and culture and one of the largest private collections of African American art, artifacts and documents, spanning […]
Salt Lake City – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) series of contemporary art from around the globe restarts today with an exhibition that brings 10,000 solar eclipses to Salt Lake City. salt 13: Katie Paterson, on view October 27, 2017 through May 20, 2018, presents recent works from the Scottish artist, whose explorations […]
Los Tres Grandes (The Three Great Ones)—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros—are among the artists featured BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) explores an unprecedented period of cultural and intellectual exchange between Mexico and the U.S. in Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints, on view November 19, 2017 through March […]
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art (the Archives) announced today that it has received a generous bequest of $2.5 million from Gerald E. Buck (1940‒2013) through The Buck Family Trust, based in Orange County, CA to endow the Archives’ collecting program on the West Coast. A longtime member of the Archives’ Board of Trustees and […]
Harry Potter, Star Wars and LEGO highlight museum camps on sale now CINCINNATI – When school is out, camps are in! Cincinnati Museum Center’s (CMC) fall and winter Museum Camps are on sale now. As winter creeps closer and closer, kids are chomping at the bit for Thanksgiving and holiday breaks and the days off […]
Wilton, CT: The first book about Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut’s first national park unit and the only one dedicated to American painting, will be authored by Xiomaro, the park’s Visiting Artist, in a deal he signed with Arcadia Publishing. About 150 of Xiomaro’s photographs will be accompanied with captions that, he explains, “tells […]
On Saturday, October 28, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St Michaels, Md. will host two live stages of music and an oyster stew competition as part of OysterFest. Oyster stew competitors include Sunflowers and Greens of Easton, Md., Bistro St. Michaels, Gourmet by the Bay, Billie’s Catering of Crisfield, Md., at t at the […]
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Shipwright James DelAguila reports that the St. Michaels museum’s floating fleet of historic vessels is being prepped for the colder months after a full summer of upgrades. With CBMM’s railway maintenance season wrapped up, new full-time marine mechanic Josh Richardson had the opportunity to do some much needed catch-up on systems […]
