Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presents One Man’s Search for Ancient China. The Paul Singer Collection, an exhibition on view Jan. 19–July 7, 2013. Paul Singer’s apartment in Summit, New Jersey, 1997. Photo by John Tsantes. [Read More]
Antiquities
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A collection of nearly 500 items of renaissance gold and silver has been bequeathed to Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum by the late collector Michael Wellby. The collection which includes a rare lapis lazuli bowl, made [Read More]
Harvard Art Museums present In Harmony. The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art, an exhibition on display January 31–June 1, 2013. Afrasiyab and Siyavush Embrace, folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi [Read More]
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents A Handsome Cupboard of Plate. Early American Silver from the Cahn Collection in an exhibition on display through March 24, 2013. The exhibition explores the development of silver craftsmanship [Read More]
The Frick Collection opens Precision and Splendor. Clocks and Watches, an exhibition on view January 23, 2013 to February 2, 2014. Mantel Clock with Study and Philosophy, movement by Renacle-Nicolas Sotiau (1749−1791), figures after Simon-Louis [Read More]
National Museum of Scotland presents Vikings, an exhibition on view 18 January – 12 May 2013. This outstanding exhibition shows more than 500 objects from the world-renowned collections of the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. [Read More]
The collection, which features work by the famed Boston silversmith and patriot Paul Revere, has been a must-see for generations of Detroit school children. The collection will be on view beginning Jan. 17. Sugar Basket, [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum announces Threshold to the Sacred. The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, an exhibition on view March 2–May 26, 2013. Ark Door Ben Ezra Synagogue (detail) Walters Art Museum This [Read More]
The Israel Antiquities Authority Scientific Archive 1919 – 1948 has joined the government project of “intensifying national foundations and heritage”, with the aim of preserving and digitizing the British Mandatory section. The purpose of the [Read More]
Opening Oct. 19 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, “Yoga: The Art of Transformation”—the world’s first exhibition about the discipline’s visual history—will reveal its rich and fascinating meanings, histories and evolution over the past 2,000 [Read More]
The Israel Museum Jerusalem announces Herod the Great. The King’s Final Journey, an exhibition on view February 13, 2013-October 5, 2013. The first exhibition entirely dedicated to Herod the Great, Israel’s greatest builder and one [Read More]
The Charleston Museum presents Hunt & Habit, an exhibition on view January 12 through April 21, 2013 in the museum’s Historic Textiles Gallery. Hunt & Habit will include women’s and men’s riding habits, hats and [Read More]
The Charleston Museum presents Brethren. Charleston’s Militia and the Civil War, an exhibition on view through June 3, 2013. This exhibition examines artifacts associated with militia units which served in and around Charleston during the [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced plans to voluntarily return a terracotta head to Sicily representing the god Hades and dating to about 400–300 B.C. The Museum acquired the sculpture in 1985. Joint research with [Read More]
In early 2013 the Mary Rose Trust will open a new museum, bringing the hull and most of the 19,000 artefacts that were raised with the Mary Rose together again. New Mary Rose Museum Construction [Read More]
The Henry Ford has recently acquired a large and important studio glass collection, announced by Patricia Mooradian, president of The Henry Ford. Donated by Bruce and Ann Bachmann of Chicago, Illinois, the collection, numbering approximately [Read More]
The Congressional Gold Medal awarded in 2011 to Japanese American, or Nisei, World War II veterans in recognition of their extraordinary accomplishments will begin its tour across the country, beginning with the National World War [Read More]
Asian Civilisations Museum presents Enlightened Ways. The Many Streams of Buddhist Art in Thailand, an exhibition on view 17 Apr 2013. Candleholder (Sattaphan), Lamphun, 1917. Gilded wood, inlaid with mirrored glass, 179 x 182 x [Read More]