WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Three new works are on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Anni Albers’s “Red Meander” (1969) and Lee Krasner’s “Free Space I” and “Free Space II” (1975) can be seen in [Read More]
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- As we simmer on hot summer days with temperatures in the nineties, do you ever wonder how people survived the summer heat before air-conditioning as we know it? Visit Reynolda House Museum of [Read More]
Chills and thrills will greet film-goers as Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens its fifth season of Cinema Under the Stars. “Hitchcock in Color” is co-presented by Reynolda House and the School of Filmmaking [Read More]
A sold-out crowd of more than 570 guests attended the inaugural Walter P. Chrysler Legacy Gala benefiting the nonprofit Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Mich. The event celebrated 85 years of Chrysler heritage [Read More]
In August, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts celebrates the reopening of its main galleries by mounting six extraordinary exhibitions: Dry Ice: Alaska Native Artists and the Landscape; Oblique Drift: Nicolas Galanin, Round-UP, Matterings, It [Read More]
Bellevue, WA – On July 17, 2010, more than 420 enthusiastic art aficionados, political officials, business leaders and community members gathered in celebration of Bellevue Arts Museum’s annual fundraiser, Artful Evening. A much anticipated Eastside [Read More]
One of the rarest and most highly prized minerals in the world is on display in a dazzling, comprehensive exhibition at The Field Museum (October 22 – March 6, 2011). Gold, the exhibition, explores the [Read More]
Catherine Whitney joined Philbrook as Chief Curator and Curator of American Art on July 12. Whitney will oversee the curatorial department’s ambitious and expanding special exhibition programs, and research, interpret, install and further develop Philbrook’s [Read More]
The Gross Clinic of 1875 is the most renowned work created by the great Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and a landmark in the history of 19th-century American art. In late 2008, the Philadelphia Museum [Read More]
Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced three appointments within the Museum’s curatorial and conservation departments: • Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser as Curator in The American Wing; • Jennifer Perry as Conservator [Read More]
Archaeopteryx is the earliest bird known to science and provides compelling evidence that modern birds are direct descendants of the dinosaurs; yet only ten have ever been found. One of the most complete archaeopteryx fossils [Read More]
The Curt Miller Magic and Comedy Show arrives at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Aug. 16 – 29. Magician & Illusionist Curt Miller blends dazzling magic, audience interaction, and clean comedy into a theatrical [Read More]
Chautauqua Institution is partnering with Eastman Kodak Company and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film for a week unlike any other offered in the Institution’s history — exploring the world of photography [Read More]
Architecture Firm Joins Team to Expand and Enhance Museum Facilities and Visitor Experience The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has selected the architecture firm Snøhetta to be its partner in developing an expansion [Read More]
From 8 October 2010 to 16 January 2011, the Van Gogh Museum will be presenting Illusions of reality: Naturalist painting, photography and cinema, 1875-1918. The exhibition, curated by guest curator Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the selection of Lisa Ayla Çakmak as the 2010–2013 Mellon Fellow for European art to 1800. Selected from a field of 11 national post-doctoral applicants, Çakmak joins the Museum [Read More]
The life-size carving of a human skull in the British Museum collection was made from a single block of quartz crystal (a clear colourless variety of quartz known as rock crystal). According to Museum records, [Read More]
The Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum consists of a produce truck of the same model in which farmworkers were locked and chained as part of recent slavery operations (U.S. v. Navarrete, 2008), accompanied by displays on [Read More]