Nelson-Atkins presents Early American Silver from the Cahn Collection an exhibition on view April 20—November 3, 2013. Early American Silver from the Cahn Collection presents masterworks of the premier Boston silversmiths such as Paul Revere [Read More]
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The Fleming Collection in London presents Finding the Unicorn: Tapestries Mythical and Modern an exhibition on view from 17 April to 1 June 2013. Based around the Hunt for the Unicorn tapestry series this exhibition [Read More]
Since 1986, LACMA’s annual Collectors Committee Gala has resulted in numerous important acquisitions in all areas of the museum’s collection. This weekend the Collectors Committee added nine more. For the event, Collectors Committee members create [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents Samurai! Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection an exhibition on view from April 14 through August 4, 2013. The exhibition, will showcase more than 140 works [Read More]
University of Richmond Museums present Religion and Tradition: Objects from Nepal, India, and Tibet an exhibition on view April 12 to Tuesday, December 31, 2013 in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. This [Read More]
Currier Museum of Art announces Poster Mania! Leisure, Romance and Adventure in 1890s America an exhibition on view May 24, 2013 — Sept. 2, 2013. Images: Ethel Reed, The Boston Sunday Herald – Ladies Want [Read More]
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced the acquisition of two rare Maya Palenque-style ceramic censer stands. Typical of the Maya late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) and dated to about A.D. 690–720, Censer Stand [Read More]
Nationalmuseum has acquired a terracotta sculpture entitled The Faithful Friendship (La fidèle Amitié), created in 1795 by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf (1742–1826) and exhibited at the Paris Salon that same year. The sculpture portrays [Read More]
Visitors can celebrate the traditional attire of Plains and Plateau tribes through 23 colorful and meticulously handmade dolls in “Grand Procession: Dolls from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection,” an exhibition opening Thursday, April 17, [Read More]
The Albany Institute of History and Art acquired two mummies in 1909 from a museum in Egypt, where officials said one was a male and the other a female. The second mummy, sold wrapped in [Read More]
Art Gallery of Ontario presents Revealing the Early Renaissance. Stories and Secrets in Florentine Art on view March 16 – June 16, 2013. Master of the Misericordia (Italian, about 1360-70), Saint Eloy in His Goldsmith’s [Read More]
A joint expedition of scientists led by Chapurukha M. Kusimba of The Field Museum and Sloan R. Williams of the University of Illinois at Chicago has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island [Read More]
Once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of more than 600 priceless artifacts from Israel of closes April 14 CINCINNATI – If you haven’t had the opportunity to see Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times at Cincinnati [Read More]
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery present The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia an exhibition on view March 9, 2013. The Cyrus Cylinder. Clay, Babylon, Mesopotamia, after 539 BCE; D x H: 7.8-10 x 21.9-22.8 cm; British [Read More]
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Hand Made. Long Live Crafts an exhibition on view until May 20 2013, featuring more than 500 objects presents the most exceptional examples of artistic crafts. With a complementary programme [Read More]
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse presents The Prince of Wales Journal – Cairo to Constantinople in an exhibition on view 08 March 2013 to Sunday, 21 July 2013. In 1862, the Prince of Wales [Read More]
V&A presents Treasures of the Royal Courts. Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars an exhibition on view 9 March – 14 July 2013. Hampden portrait of Elizabeth I, attributed to Steven van Herwijk or Steven [Read More]
The British Museum will stage two unique live broadcasts to cinema audiences across the UK and Ireland with a special offer to school groups. Wall painting of the baker Terentius Neo and his wife. From [Read More]