The 47th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature a variety of fun and interactive family activities, including crafts and food demonstrations, as well as music and dance performances. The Festival will be held Wednesday, June [Read More]
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New Bedford Whaling Museum presents Arctic Visions an exhibition exploreing the intersections between art, science and exploration through the work of Fairhaven artist William Bradford (1823-1892). Highlights of the exhibit include an unparalleled collection of [Read More]
In conjunction with the opening of James Turrell, the Guggenheim has announced the official launch of its mobile app, which offers an array of multimedia content to users both at the museum and at home [Read More]
Royal Ontario Museum presents Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: the Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past an exhibition on view June 22, 2013 until January 5, 2014. Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: the Looting and Destruction of [Read More]
Focus Consultants and Purcell architects have been appointed by Lincolnshire County Council to undertake a Feasibility Study for RAF Scampton, near Lincoln. The study will explore the possibilities of enhancing visitor facilities with a new [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA. PHOTOGRAPHS 1975-2012 an exhibition on view 20 JUNE – 8 SEPTEMBER 2013. For the very first time in Europe, the SCHIRN will host a comprehensive survey on the oeuvre [Read More]
The Queens Museum announces the studio program recipients for the inaugural year in the newly expanded museum opening in October 2013. The expansion includes eight new studios in the Queens Museum’s north wing. Artists applied [Read More]
Foam opens Bowie by Duffy – Photographs ’72 – ’80 an exhibition on view June 21, 2013 – October 06, 2013, an exclusive selection of images of David Bowie made by the late legendary fashion [Read More]
Kunsthallen Brandts presents Eva Steen Christensen and Tina Maria Nielsen two sculpture exhibitions on view 21 June–15 September 2013. The exhibiting artists are Eva Steen Christensen (b. 1969) and Tina Maria Nielsen (b. 1964). The [Read More]
Colorado railroads helped unearth many fossils as railroad tracks were laid. Construction crews often exposed these unusual and fascinating bones as they were digging and laying railroad ties. Trains were then used to transport these [Read More]
Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, an exhibition on view June 25, 2013–January 26, 2014, of 40 works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents photographs and videos [Read More]
Master shipwright and rigger Mark Donohue of Mantoloking, NJ has been named Rosie Parks project manager for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD. As project manager, Donohue is responsible for restoring [Read More]
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, in collaboration with a host of local literary organizations, celebrates the life and legacy of Allen Ginsberg with four days of special events at venues around the Bay Area. Events include [Read More]
Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection, announced the appointment of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) to enhance and expand the landscape design of the institution’s 30-acre campus in the heart of Houston. The appointment [Read More]
Expanded scope of renovation includes galleries for Asian art and a new learning and creativity center for visitors of all ages BALTIMORE, MD – The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) today announced a series of [Read More]
Douglas World Cruiser celebration and maiden flight of “Seattle II” SEATTLE – In 1924, four specially built Douglas Aircraft “World Cruisers” – one of them named Seattle – set out to become the first planes [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective an exhibition on view June 18–September 22, 2013. For more than 50 years, Los Angeles artist Ken Price, who died on February 24, 2012 [Read More]
21er Haus opens Gelatin: Hole on view 10 June–29 September 2013. Following the intervention by Marcus Geiger (2011) and the Hans Schabus solo exhibition (2012), this year the 21er Haus is once again the venue [Read More]