The National Maritime Museum marks 2013’s International Slavery Remembrance Day with a series of free family-friendly events. Taking place throughout the Museum and around Greenwich on Friday 23 August, the programme includes music, workshops and [Read More]
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A selection of celebrity portraits by renowned photographer Bob Carlos Clarke have been donated to the National Portrait Gallery collection by the Bob Carlos Clarke Foundation. The photographs, which were taken in various locations between [Read More]
Best known for bird’s-eye-view landscape photography, Gerco de Ruijter (Dutch, b. Vianen, 1961; lives and works in Rotterdam) mined Google Earth for the images he montaged into his stop-frame animation “CROPS” (2012). The hypnotic four-minute [Read More]
The National Museum of American History announced a $5 million donation by SC Johnson in support of the renovation of the building’s 120,000-square-foot west exhibition wing. The updated wing will feature new exhibitions, program spaces [Read More]
Currier Museum of Art presents Visual Dispatches from the Vietnam War an exhibition on view Nov. 11, 2013. This exhibition presents 35 iconic photographs that brought the Vietnam War to the dinner table of every [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art will open its new Paintings Conservation Studio in November 2013, as part of the Museum’s initiative to establish a more comprehensive in-house conservation program. The launch of the Studio coincides [Read More]
Getty Museum presents Miracles and Martyrs: Saints in the Middle Ages an exhibition on view September 3, 2013–March 2, 2014 at the Getty Center. Venerated for their willingness to suffer torture and death, their ability [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum is offering a number of culinary events in the coming months spotlighting the lush gardens and bountiful herbs at both locations. Guests can take part in hands-on cooking classes, or [Read More]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a gift of materials related to writer Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), a prominent and prolific writer [Read More]
The REAL DMZ PROJECT 2013: Borderline opened on July 27—the sixtieth anniversary of the military cease-fire between North and South Korea—featuring works by international artists in sites located beyond the military checkpoints of the official [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art pays tribute to film designer Dante Ferretti (Italian, b. 1943) with a large-scale multimedia installation comprising a 12-screen labyrinth featuring projected scenes from his work; original set pieces from the [Read More]
Kentucky museum presents Documenting Tradition: Images from the Kentucky Folklife Program Archives an exhibition on view through October 19, 2013. The Kentucky Folklife Program Archives is a rich repository of materials documenting the folklife of [Read More]
The North Carolina Museum of Art presents Outsiders: Facing the Camera an exhibition, on view through January 26, 2014. This exhibition brings together works from the NCMA’s permanent collection that examine forms of “otherness.” These [Read More]
The Joslyn Art Museum presents The original art of Dr. Seuss in an exhibition on view August 10 to November 3. Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss, is one [Read More]
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is proud to announce Deferred Archive as this year’s Grants & Commissions Program exhibition. The eleventh edition of CIFO’s Grants & Commissions Program features newly commissioned works by Jorge [Read More]
Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College presents The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel an exhibition on view August 11, 2013 – December 01, 2013, that revolves around the notion of land, [Read More]
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art presents Heikki Seppa. Master Metalsmith an exhibition on view through September 22, 2013. Hand-formed works in silver and other metals from the Permanent Art Collection and borrowed – this master [Read More]
Worcester Art Museum presents Winogrand’s Women Are Beautiful an exhibition on view August 9 – November 10, 2013 Hailed as a pioneer of the “snapshot aesthetic,” Garry Winogrand used a wide-angle lens on his Leica [Read More]