The Metropolitan Museum of Art is bringing together more than 100 masterpieces drawn from the premier collections in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, and the United States, Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic [Read More]
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The Director of The Menil Collection, Josef Helfenstein, has announced the return of the museum’s Byzantine frescoes to Cyprus in 2012. “While this moment is bittersweet, the story of these frescoes—from their rescue, to their [Read More]
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that it has received two major grants from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation for projects at Phnom Bakheng in Cambodia and Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. Phnom [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents the Final Section, Completing Rare Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, on view from September 28, 2011. Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book [Read More]
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem announced its Dead Sea Scrolls Project on Monday, putting five of the texts online for the general public to study. The website — http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/ — was developed in partnership with [Read More]
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) presents Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos an exhibition on view September 23, 2011-January 8, 2012. Ceiling Tile with Portrait of Heliodoros, an Actuarius [Read More]
An agreement between the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey has been signed, transferring [Read More]
Reflections of the Buddha First Loan Exhibition at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Five works of art from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s internationally acclaimed Asian collection have been loaned to The Pulitzer Foundation for [Read More]
Opening at the Walters on Oct. 16, 2011, this exhibition reveals texts from the ancient world discovered by conserving and imaging The Archimedes Palimpsest – The Archimedes Palimpsest contains the remains of seven erased books, [Read More]
Penn Museum presents Human Evolution: The First 200 Million Years, the ongoing story of human evolution—one that scientists trace back more than 200,000,000 years, opening September 18, 2011. Human Evolution invites visitors to explore the [Read More]
“Uberyummy: Contemporary Confections and Objects of Desire” is a collection of ceramic and multimedia installation artists who create super tantalizing environments that take viewers into worlds of consumerism, transformation, artificiality, mass reproduction and extreme behavior. [Read More]
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination is the British Library’s first major exhibition, on view 11 November 2011- 13 March 2012, to bring together the Library’s Royal collection, a treasure trove of illuminated manuscripts collected [Read More]
The Tyler Museum of Art presents Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum on view September 4 through November 13, 2011 at the TMA. This is the only scheduled [Read More]
The Museum Of Russian Icons will present an acclaimed collection of Russian metal icons and crosses, which chronicles the entire history of the Russian Orthodox Church from the 11th C. to the 19th C. On [Read More]
The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Variety, Archeology, and Ornament Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice, a new exhibition on view August 26 – December 18, 2011. Focusing on the crucial role of [Read More]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a Museums for America grant of $150,000 from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over the next two years, the Museum will [Read More]
The Macculloch Hall Historical Museum presents Coming of Age: Early American Silversmiths; Masters, Apprentices, Trade Partners and Taste an exhibition on view through October, 2011. The exhibition includes pieces made by Paul Revere, Jr. of [Read More]
Beyond Extinction: Consciousness of Taíno and Caribbean Indigeneity The Smithsonian Latino Center will host a symposium on the survival of Taíno language, identity and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness Friday, Aug. 26, from 2:30 [Read More]