Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart – Berlin presents Wall Works an exhibition on view through August 31, 2014. The exhibition Wall Works examines wide-ranging artistic interpretations that have redefined the wall as a visual [Read More]
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Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, announced today that Scott Schaefer, the Museum’s senior curator of Paintings since 1999, will retire on January 21, 2014. Schaefer joined the Museum in February 1999, [Read More]
Storm King Art Center announced today that its 2014 special exhibition will showcase works by internationally celebrated Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Huan. Zhang’s Three Legged Buddha (2007), a colossal sculpture standing nearly twenty-eight feet high [Read More]
Museo Nacional del Prado presents Natural Histories A project by Miguel Ángel Blanco an exhibition on view through 27 April 2014. Through this exhibition, the Prado is paying tribute to its own history and to [Read More]
Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land (2010) follows artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home in Brooklyn to his native Brazil, and the world’s largest garbage dump located on the outskirts of [Read More]
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts presents The Fifth Dimension open December 20, 2013–February 16, 2014 Featuring (in order of their works’ appearance): Pieter Vermeersch, Tauba Auerbach, Geof Oppenheimer, Iman Issa, Ika [Read More]
The staff of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art expresses heartfelt condolences on the passing of former President Nelson Mandela of the Republic of South Africa, and the museum is displaying a condolence book [Read More]
Winter Family Fun” activities Dec. 26-31 SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight celebrates “Boeing Days” Dec. 26 and 27, with free admission for all Boeing employees (with I.D.), plus one adult and up to three [Read More]
The National Museum of American History will hold a National Youth Summit Feb. 5, 2014, at noon EST at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss., and link high school students across the U.S. in [Read More]
Wednesday, January 15, 11 am, with optional lunch Inspired by the Katonah Museum of Art’s current exhibition, Eye to I…3,000 Years of Portraits, explore the Met’s many galleries on this private docent tour, and make [Read More]
A large plaster bust of the celebrated twentieth century British actress Margaret Rawlings by sculptor Frank Dobson has been donated to the National Portrait Gallery Collection in London. The bust of Rawlings, who had a [Read More]
The Mexican Museum, announces its new Investment Advisory Committee. The new Committee, which will be chaired by Museum Board Member, Luis Ortiz Hidalgo, a prominent Mexico City attorney, will provide guidance and recommendations for The [Read More]
The Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels presents Henry van de Velde Passion – Function – Beauty on exhibition on view through Sun 12-01-2014. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henry van de Velde, [Read More]
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage announced the appointment of Ellen A. Rudolph as the museum’s new executive director, effective January 8, 2014. Ms. Rudolph was chosen for the position after a national search of [Read More]
Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina presents do it curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist from November 15 through December 14, 2013, marking the first time that do it has been realized in Kosovo. Drawing from a [Read More]
Langley Shook has announced his intention to retire as CBMM’s President. He will remain as President until a successor is named. Shook became CBMM’s fourth President in 2009 after serving on the museum’s Board of [Read More]
The San Diego Museum of Art has hired Michael Brown, Ph.D., as the Museum’s Associate Curator of European Art. Brown will begin his role in January 2014. Working with the Museum’s Permanent Collection of European [Read More]
After having welcomed its one millionth visitor in August, the Rijksmuseum received its two millionth visitor on 3 December. Since the official opening by the former Queen Beatrix on 13 April of this year, visitor [Read More]