The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and Parks Canada announced the launch of the Burgess Shale online exhibition, as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada. The website provides, for the first time ever, an immersive [Read More]
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Gift includes $15 million in Latin American art to MAM’s Permanent Collection Miami Art Museum announced that long-time museum supporter and Miami-Dade County business leader Jorge M. Pérez has increased his contribution to the museum’s [Read More]
The Museum Morsbroich presents Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Lecons Sur La Societe Industrielle (Revision 15) an exhibition on view 4 December 2011–12 February 2012. Christopher Williams Bergische Bauernscheune, Junkersholz, Leichlingen September 29th, 2009 2010 [Read More]
To mark its closure pending a complete renovation and modernisation, The Olympic Museum will be offering free entry to all visitors until the end of January next year. As of today, tourists and Olympic fans [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has named Dr. Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts Consulting Curator of African Art to help launch a program and establish a gallery dedicated to the arts of Africa. [Read More]
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors. Recipients to be honored at the 34th annual national celebration of the [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced that Gary Tinterow has been named as its seventh director. Tinterow, an internationally recognized curator and scholar who is currently the Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, [Read More]
Students of art are encouraged to apply now for the Palmer Scholarship awarded annually by the Toledo Museum of Art. The application deadline for this art travel award is January 20, 2012. The Palmer Scholarship [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired a 1973 red convertible Eldorado Cadillac belonging to legendary rock ’n’ roll musician Chuck Berry. The car is part of Berry’s personal fleet [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of Portrait of Madame Brunet (also known as Young Woman in 1860), painted in 1860-1863, and reworked by 1867—a rare, early portrait by the modern French [Read More]
Presented by the Delaware Art Museum Council, the 27th annual Holiday House Tour returns this year on Saturday, December 10th. Beginning at 10:00 a.m. and ending at 4:00 p.m., the self-guided Tour features eight spectacular [Read More]
Dr. Patrick Wallace, Director, National Museum of Ireland, has welcomed the achievement of over 1 million visitors so far this year. This represents an increase of 10% on the total visitor numbers to the Museum [Read More]
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents New Topographics an exhibition on view through 01.08.2012. In 1975 the George Eastman House, New York, organized an exhibition entitled New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, which signalled [Read More]
The National Museums of Ireland have a wealth of wonderful exhibitions and events happening across three sites in Dublin and its site in Castelbar, Co Mayo over the festive period that would make for a [Read More]
The National Museum of Ireland presents Reconstructed Rooms. Four Centuries of Furnishings. Installation view of Reconstructed Rooms: Four Centuries of Furnishings Exhibition. 20th Century. ©National Museum of Ireland. This new exhibition displays some of the [Read More]
Feather Cuts and Flares is a new display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool . featuring nine original outfits from this turbulent period when extravagant modes blossomed despite social and political upheaval. Platform heels, [Read More]
The Walker Art Gallery and Museum of Liverpool Presents Lily Savage’s Costumes an exhibition on view through 19 February 2012. Image by Alistair Muir Eleven sensational costumes worn by actor Paul O’Grady’s alter ego Lily [Read More]
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey presents Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art an exhibition on view through January 7, 2012, that traces the history and evolution of the ancient [Read More]