A three-part sculpture by Austrian artist Franz West is installed on the roof of the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Regency building on The Mall from 11 October, 2011 through 29 January 2012. The installation consists [Read More]
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Rocky Mountain Express opens October 14 CINCINNATI – Beautiful landscapes. Breathtaking vistas. Jaw-dropping chasms. Roaring river gorges. Cincinnati Museum Center’s new OMNIMAX film, Rocky Mountain Express, takes you back to the Age of Steam! Carve [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art will salute the distinguished career of artist Cindy Sherman and the leadership of Ann L. Gund, Jo Carole Lauder, Wendy W. Luers, Carol Price and Eden Rafshoon of the [Read More]
National Museums Scotland presents an exhibition devoted to Admiral Lord Cochrane, on view 7 October 2011 – 19 February 2012. Admiral Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander opens on Friday 7 October and tells the [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass will unveil its 2011 Rakow Commission on October 21: Five Pods by Seattle-based artist Ann Gardner. Gardner, who is the first glass mosaic artist to be awarded a Rakow Commission, [Read More]
The Yale Center for British Art presents Adapting the eye. An archive of the British in India. 1770-1830 on view October 11–December 31, 2011. Organized to complement the Center’s major fall exhibition on Johan Zoffany, [Read More]
Daniel Libeskind’s winning design boldly interrupts the original building’s symmetry. The extension, a massive, five-story 140-ton wedge of glass, concrete and steel, cuts through the 135-year-old former arsenal’s structural order. A 98-foot high viewing platform [Read More]
The Kunstverein Hamburg presents Kathrin Sonntag and Plamen Dejanoff exhibitions on view through 30 December 2011. Plamen Dejanoff, “The Bronze House (B&GG),” 2011. Installation view Kunstverein Hamburg. Photo: Fred Dott / Kunstverein. In his work, [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University presents Cute and Creepy an exhibition on view October 14 – November 20, 2011. Curated by Carrie Ann Baade. Catalog essay by Dr. Nancy Hightower on the [Read More]
The Courtald Gallery at Somerset House presents “The Spanish Line: Drawings From Ribera to Picasso an exhibition on view 3 October 2011 – 15 January 2012. This exhibition explores the rich, intriguing and varied territory [Read More]
Exhibition Features 200 Works by European and American Modernists in the Metropolitan Museum’s Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art Presents stieglitz and His Artists, Matisse to O’Keeffe a new exhibition on view October 13, 2011 [Read More]
The de Appel arts centre presents Sven Augustijnen “Spectres” a solo exhibition on view 15 October 2011–12 February 2012. Opening: Friday, 14 October, 6–9 p.m. Sven Augustijnen, “Spectres,” 2011. © Sven Augustijnen. Courtesy Jan Mot. [Read More]
The Andy Warhol Museum and Toura announce the release of The Warhol Art app to the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace. The Warhol Art app allows users to examine works of art and related [Read More]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to host New York-based psychoanalyst and art historian Dr. Laurie Wilson for a public lecture on October 22, 2011 at 1 pm. Dr. Wilson’s talk, entitled [Read More]
Museum opens doors for family Halloween party Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. For one night every year, The Museum of Flight becomes The Museum of Fright. Admission is free for this family-friendly Halloween event from [Read More]
Serero Architects has won a competition to design the Museum of the Fromelles Fightin Fromelles, France. The architecture of the Museum of Fromelles is aiming at establishing a link between sky and earth, between visitors [Read More]
Guest-curated exhibition showcases an artist exhange between Egypt and the United States The Mattress Factory Art Museum presents Sites Of Passage an exhibition on view through January 8, 2012 with new and context-specific work by [Read More]
The Fabric Workshop & Museum in Philadelphia presents Laurie Anderson. Forty-Nine Days in the Bardo on view through November 19, 2011. Forty-Nine Days in the Bardo is a new, multimedia body of work by internationally [Read More]