The Bakersfield Museum of Art presents LETHAL BEAUTY: Samurai Weapons and Armor on view September 15 – November 20, 2011. The striking duality of deadly weaponry forged with artistic beauty is on full display in [Read More]
Antiquities
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Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. One of the most [Read More]
The Art Fund has helped the University of Manchester’s John Rylands University Library acquire the ‘missing’ seventh volume of a celebrated Renaissance manuscript. Pages from the Colonna Missal, John Rylands University Library The volume is [Read More]
The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara The Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of spectacular Buddhist sculptures, architectural reliefs works of gold and bronze from the Gandhara region of Pakistan, most never exhibited [Read More]
The University of Nebraska State Museum’s Nebraska Archaeological Survey is conducting further archaeological investigations at several prehistoric sites this summer at Hugh Butler Lake in Frontier County. Additional funds were granted recently to continue this [Read More]
A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh—probably Amenemhat II—will be lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a [Read More]
Digital Images Provide Access to Rare Paper Squeezes The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives announces a new 3-D digital resource that will enable scholars and the public to learn [Read More]
The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired an early, rare and important Chimú painted textile panel from the Late Intermediate Period (about A.D. 1200-1290). The large, unusually well-preserved cotton fragment is one section of the [Read More]
Special exhibition examines character of ancient city on the Euphrates, inhabited by Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman peoples. Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos examines the life and culture of this [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced that one of the most prominent holdings of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France’s Cabinet des Médailles in Paris, the Berthouville Treasure, has begun a three-year-long process of conservation and [Read More]
The Fabergé Museum presents the latest edition to its permanent collection, from July 16 showing almost 100 very rare and exquisite treasures of the ancient peoples of South America — the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya. [Read More]
The Field Museum has used a CT Scanner Provided by Genesis Medical Imaging to scan mummies in the museum’s collection. At least one Egyptian mummy is only partly there as its torso and arms are [Read More]
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, an exhibition devoted to the art of Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa, will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of [Read More]
The Bowes Museum presents Amazing Egyptians, on view 2 July until 31 August 2011, exploreing the customs and traditions surrounding life and death in the land of the Pharaohs, through the use of key objects [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Mother India an exhibition featuring Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting on view June 29 – November 27, 2011. Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of [Read More]
Musée du Quay Branly presents from dawn to dusk, National collections of Guatemala. Exhibition on view through SUNDAY 2TH OCTOBER 2011. Through the presentation of more than 160 exceptional objects belonging to the National Heritage [Read More]
The British Museum presents Treasures of Heaven Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. Exhibition open 23 June – 9 October 2011. This major exhibition brings together for the first time some of the finest [Read More]
One of the largest collections of Iron Age coins to be found in recent years has been saved for the nation, and will be displayed at Ipswich Museum thanks to the support of the Art [Read More]