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 […]
Antiquities
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brooklyn Museum presents Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas featurng over one hundred masterpieces from the Museum’s permanent Arts of the Americas collection, exemplifying the concept of transformation as part of the spiritual beliefs […]
Frist Center for the Visual Arts opens Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas. The John Bourne Collection an exhibition on view March 1–June 23, 2013. Burial Urn, K’iché Maya, Southern Highlands, Guatemala, Late Classic Period, […]