SEATTLE, – The Museum of Flight offers a full-throttle celebration of acceleration with the Aug. 3-4 Need for Speed Festival. Located next to the launching pad for the Boeing Air Show at Seafair Weekend, the [Read More]
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The Smithsonian will host “Scots in the American West,” a symposium examining the Scottish immigrant experience west of the Mississippi River in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The symposium, which will be held Aug. [Read More]
Roaring, thrashing, life-size dinosaurs as long as 40 feet—including North America’s largest Jurassic predator—invade the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University this fall when Dinosaurs Unearthed makes its East Coast debut. State-of-the-art and scientifically [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Micha Bar-Am: Dividing Line Photographs from the Yom Kippur War an exhibition on view Friday 19 July 2013 – Saturday 26 October 2013. The exhibition, which marks the [Read More]
Queensland Art Gallery presents Ruth Stoneley: A Stitch in Time an exhibition on view through October 7, 2013. To complement ‘Quilts 1700–1945’, the Gallery presents an exhibition of contemporary quilts by the late leading Brisbane [Read More]
The third edition of Dojima River Biennale, organized by Taiwanese curator Rudy Tseng as its Artistic Director, draws inspiration from the beauty of Dojima River, and focuses on water’s importance to the everyday life of [Read More]
Liaisons Dangereuses: Alliances, Misalliances and False Friends, the leitmotif of this year’s steirischer herbst festival looks at connections, relationships and their transformation—in society, art and culture and in both the private sphere and in politics. [Read More]
The Foundry Art Centre Board of Directors has announced leadership changes at the not-for-profit arts center in Historic St. Charles, Missouri. The organization’s current Executive Director, Laura Helling, is departing from the Foundry Art Centre [Read More]
JR’s First Solo U.S. Museum Show Opens September 2013 The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, Ohio-one of the nation’s oldest and most celebrated contemporary art institutions-announces the 2013-2014 lineup of exhibitions, museum anniversaries, and [Read More]
Museum of Design Atlanta presents Barrique: Wine, Design & Social Change an exhibition on view Sunday, September 15, 2013 – Sunday, October 13, 2013. This exhibition spotlights a wine barrel (barrique) recycling project taking place [Read More]
Kunstverein Hamburg presents Natalie Czech I cannot repeat what I hear on view until September 1, 2013. The photographic works of Natalie Czech (b. 1976, lives in Berlin) oscillate between concrete poetry and conceptual photography. [Read More]
Kunstverein Hamburg presents Nathan Hylden Meanwhile on view until September 15, 2013. The starting point of the current series of Nathan Hylden (b. 1978, lives in Los Angeles) is a photograph of the artist’s studio. [Read More]
Hammer Museum presents A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living an exhibition on view through September 8, 2013. A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living is the first major museum retrospective of the Los Angeles-based [Read More]
the British Museum (BM) launches the Annual Review 2012/13, celebrating the successes of the previous year and looking forward to future activity. In 2012 the BM was once again the leading visitor attraction in the [Read More]
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art broke ground to celebrate and begin the expansion and renovation of The Future Westmoreland. Ennead Architects of New York City and LaQuatra Bonci Associates: Landscape Architecture of Pittsburgh are [Read More]
Thursday, Aug. 1, 5 to 9 p.m. Wells Fargo Free First Thursday Once a month, the Museum stays open late – and admission is free! Enjoy the Museum’s Great Gallery, Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, Airpark, [Read More]
Crocker Art Museum presents Rob Barnard: Pottery as Pure Art an exhibition on view July 21 through October 20, 2013. This exhibition introduces to a wider audience the ceramic art of Rob Barnard, exclusively featuring [Read More]
Crocker Art Museum presents Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power an exhibition on view SEPTEMBER 22, 2013 – JANUARY 5, 2014. Art21 artist Kara Walker is known for her powerful visual [Read More]