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 [Read More]
Antiquities
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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, [Read More]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the appointment of Dirk H. Breiding as the J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of Arms and Armor. Currently an Assistant Curator in the Arms and Armor Department at the [Read More]
J. Paul Getty Museum opens Untold Stories. Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts an exhibition on view February 26–May 12, 2013. Miniatures from Boethius, Consolation de philosophie, about 1460–1470. German. Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, [Read More]
The Getty Museum announced that the sculpture Lion Attacking a Horse, on loan from the Capitoline Museums in Rome, will be on extended view at the Getty Villa until May 6, 2013. Lion Attacking a [Read More]
Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection an exhibition on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013, featuring nearly 100 works. After a Gladiator Fight During a Meal [Read More]
Frick Art & Historical Center presents A Kind of Alchemy. Medieval Persian Ceramics an exhibition on view February 23, 2013–June 16, 2013. Calligraphic Bowl, Northeastern Iran (probably Nishapur), 10th century. Earthenware painted on a white [Read More]
Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Caporali Missal. A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination an exhibition on view February 17, 2013 to June 2, 2013. Caporali Missal, from the convent of San Francesco, Montone, near Perugia, [Read More]
The Collection Lincoln & The Usher Gallery present The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old. Contemporary Art and Archaeology from the Stone Age to the Present on view 2 February–7 May, 2013. Roger Hiorns, [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and Albany State University will co-host a daylong program to help southwest Georgia residents identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away [Read More]
The British Museum is exhibiting a Sowei mask. spirit of Sierra Leone in an exhibition on view 14 February 2013 – 28 April 2013. The mask featured in this display was collected in 1886 by [Read More]
New York State Museum presents From New York to the White House, New York Residents Who Became President, an exhibition on view February 15, through Sunday, February 17, 2013. The exhibit features the original draft [Read More]
Tennessee State Museum presents Discovering the Civil War, a landmark exhibition from Washington D.C.’s National Archives, on view Feb 12 – Sept 1, 2013. Discovering the Civil War draws on these through letters, diaries, photos, [Read More]
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia displays The Lod Mosaic in an exhibition on view February 10 – May 12, 2013. The Lod Mosaic Image © Israel Antiquities Authority More than 300 square feet and nearly [Read More]
Metropolitan Museum Examines Changing Image of Eros, Ancient Greek God of Love, from Antiquity to Renaissance in an exhibition on view through June 23, 2013 . In Greek mythology, Eros was the god of love. [Read More]
Barber Institute of Fine Arts presents Close to the Heart 17th- to 19th-century Portrait Miniatures from UK Collections, an exhibition on view through 5 May 2013. Barber Institute of Fine Arts Close to the Heart [Read More]
Organized and on view through June 16, 2013 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon – Identities and Conquest in the Ancient, Colonial and Modern Eras will [Read More]
Nationalmuseum has acquired a miniature portrait by Adelaide Labille-Guiard. One of the most important women artists in late 18th-century France, she was not previously represented in the museum’s collections. The work is interesting on account [Read More]