From September 18, 2011 to January 2012, the Eileen S. Kaminsky Foundation and Mana Art Center will present highlights from the Meisels’ personal art collection. Our Own Directions: Works from the Louis K. and Susan [Read More]
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On Saturday, October 15, 2011, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum will open renovated spaces in its landmark I. M. Pei building and a 16,000 square-foot extension inspired by Pei’s original museum plan, designed by the [Read More]
THe Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum presents Stripped: The Body Beautiful, an exhibition on view through 2nd January 2012. Featuring sculptures, paintings and objects from the Museum’s collection, visitors are encouraged to debate whether beauty [Read More]
The Roald Dahl Museum is appealing for £500000 to save Roald Dahl’s writing hut. The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre is a registered charity (number 1085853) and company limited by guarantee (number 4178505), registered [Read More]
Stephanie Wiles of Oberlin College has been named the next director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Provost Kent Fuchs has announced. Wiles has been the John G.W. Cowles Director of the Allen [Read More]
Free admission with downloaded Museum Day tickets SEATTLE, Sept. 14, 2011–The Museum of Flight will honor Smithsonian Media’s Museum Day tickets for free admission to the Museum on Sept. 24. Museum Day is an annual [Read More]
One of the most curious tendencies in modern and contemporary art has been that of museums created by artists. Museum Show is a historical survey exhibition—or a ‘museum of museums’ perhaps—displaying a comprehensive selection of [Read More]
New museum complex, designed by celebrated firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to be located in the Downtown Berkeley Arts District. View from the corner of Center and Oxford Streets. Image courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro. [Read More]
“Africa Underground” returns Friday, Sept. 30, with “No Boundaries,” an evening of eclectic delights at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 7 to 11 p.m. Coming on the heels of a successful second [Read More]
A newly expanded version of the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) Online Catalogue Raisonné introduces 333 works produced by the acclaimed Los Angeles print and sculpture workshop between early 1997 and late 2005. The online [Read More]
The Menil Collection and Rice University’s Rice Building Workshop (RBW) have joined forces to design and construct a café across Sul Ross Street from the museum’s main entrance. The project began earlier this year, when [Read More]
The board of Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, is very pleased to announce the appointment of Defne Ayas as its new director, effective from 1st January 2012. Defne Ayas will succeed [Read More]
(Katonah, NY) – The Katonah Museum of Art has announced that the 2011 Himmel Award & Lecture honoring Chuck Close has been postponed. Originally scheduled for October 16, the Award & Lecture by Close will [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s governing body, the Board of Regents, will conduct its 2011 public forum Monday, Sept. 19, from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m., in the Hirshhorn Museum. Reporters are invited to attend the public session and [Read More]
Blairs Museum are taking part in the North East Open Studios annual exhibition of artists and craftspeople. This year we are exhibiting the exciting work of transcontinental photographer Tom Remp as well as a selection [Read More]
Printed Matter, Inc. presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art Modern presents An Evening with Bill Basquin, on October 24, 7:00 p.m. The work of San Francisco–based filmmaker, photographer, and installation artist Bill Basquin explores the intersection of rural and [Read More]
The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum is facing the threat of closure in 2012. Since December 18, 1977, the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum at 203 Amity Street, in West Baltimore, has been [Read More]