The Greater Cincinnati Police Museum is seeking a centrally located 20,000 square foot space to call home by 2014. The museum is currently raising funds to build the new museum. If you know of an [Read More]
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The San Francisco Arts Commission and the Randall Museum announce the installation of Windswept, a wind-driven kinetic façade by Charles Sowers. An artist and exhibit developer at the Exploratorium, Sowers has created thought-provoking, beautiful experiences [Read More]
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announce that, after an extensive nationwide search, leading Bay Area performing artist, activist and educator, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, has been selected as YBCA’s director of performing arts. Since 1999, [Read More]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce a new lineup of family programming for the winter 2012 season. Every Sunday in January (excluding January 1), February, and March, the museum [Read More]
Spirits of Internationalism. 6 European Collections 1956–1986 opens at M HKA in Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. This exhibition takes place simultaneously in two venues and shows art from six European collections: four [Read More]
West of Rome, as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980 Performance and Public Art Festival, organized by the Getty in conjunction with LA>
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) presents A History of Impressionism. Great French Paintings from the Clark in an exhibition on view October 12, 2012 to January 20, 2013. Claude Monet (1840-1926), Geese in [Read More]
The Swiss Institute present an exhibition of Jean-Frédéric Schnyder (born 1945, lives in Zug, Switzerland) in the United States on view through February 26, 2012. Despite his long and successful career the Swiss artist has [Read More]
The Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris presents Jayce Salloum. Recits alternatifs an e(du Liban à l’Afghanistan, par la Vallée de l’Okanagan…) exhibition on view until 16 March 2012. Jayce Salloum. Inside looking out, sky and [Read More]
The Orlando Museum of Art presents Wendy Babcox: Landscape Interrupted an exhibition on view 12 01 2011 – 021 2 2012. Wendy Babcox, Untitled Tent, Long, 2011, archival ink jet print, 19 ¾ x 15 [Read More]
The Groninger Museum is closed due to floods until 9 January 2012. The museum said The exbition rooms were evacuated due to the threat of flooding and they hope to open the doors again on [Read More]
The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovinain in Sarajevo is expected to close when its power supply is cut off due to unpaid bills. The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zemaljski Muzej Bosne i [Read More]
Thanks to a generous grant from Target, 8000 students in grades three through 12 can look forward to a field trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) early next year. One hundred schools in [Read More]
The popular exhibition Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) through Feb. 12, broke attendance records for recent exhibitions at the museum, with more than 15,000 visitors during the [Read More]
Tate Modern has released Race Against Time an iPhone app available from the App Store for iPod and iPhone. The app is a free download. In the year 2011Dr. Greyscale finally completes his experiments on [Read More]
AMOA-Arthouse in Austin presents Jill Magid. Failed States an exhibition on view January 14–March 4, 2012. Jill Magid, Fausto’s parking space (site for “Failed States”), 2011. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert, [Read More]
Scott S. Dahl, currently deputy inspector general at the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been appointed inspector general for the Smithsonian, effective Jan. 15. He replaces Sprightley Ryan who had served as IG since 2007. [Read More]
The Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw presents Goshka Macuga. Untitled an exhibition on view 19 February 2012. Goshka Macuga’s practice encompasses the roles of an artist, curator, collector, researcher and exhibition designer. She [Read More]