Monroe Museum Village presents Civil War Era Re-enactment on Saturday & Sunday, September 3 & 4. More than two hundred re-enactors take over the museum grounds for the weekend, bringing history to life. Museum visitors [Read More]
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The Brooklyn Museum presents 19th-Century Modern an exhibition on view September 2, 2011–April 1, 2012. Featuring more than forty items from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection of American and European decorative arts, 19th-Century Modern will focus [Read More]
KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents Seeing is believing, on view 11 September–13 November 2011. Opening: 10 September 2011, 5–10 pm. Images of terrorist attacks can be seen live and within seconds they are dispatched [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art’s Apollo Society has acquired Figure of a Woman Carrying a Child, a wooden sculpture from the Tabwa peoples in central Africa dating to pre-1880. The subject’s short, bent legs, rounded [Read More]
CINCINNATI – To mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a broad coalition of religious, civic and education leaders has formed the local 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Commemoration Coalition to plan a community-wide observance. [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA – The Academy of Natural Sciences, the nation’s oldest natural history museum, this week kicks off a 200-day countdown to a yearlong bicentennial celebration with a fascinating peek at its past and a look [Read More]
A landmark exhibition at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College is one of many events associated with the 300th anniversary of the birth of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg on Sept. 6, [Read More]
Sculpture by world-renowned artist Claes Oldenburg ushering in new era of cultural engagement in the region On August 20, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) witnessed a milestone in the history of this [Read More]
New Jersey Lighthouses and selected museums are pleased to again be hosting the “Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey” weekend on Saturday, Oct. 15 and Sunday, Oct. 16. Take the challenge, tour the state and visit [Read More]
The male-dominated Minimal art movement of the 1960s was characterized by an interest in basic geometric shapes and the use of industrially- produced materials. Although many critics consider Anne Truitt (1921–2004) to be a pioneer [Read More]
The La Salle University Art Museum presents the work of emerging Philadelphia artist Sarah Hunter from September 22 through December 8, 2011. Hunter offers whimsical depictions of toy animals in settings defined by flat planes [Read More]
The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is pleased to present Close at Hand: Philadelphia Artists from the Permanent Collection, featuring a broad range of significant works produced in collaboration with FWM through its renowned Artists-in-Residence [Read More]
In honor of its 40th anniversary, the Brandywine River Museum presents a suite of special exhibitions. N.C. Wyeth’s Treasure Island, Classic Illustrations for a Classic Tale September 10 through November 20 2011 is the 100th [Read More]
Stroom Den Haag presents Hans van Houwelingen Until it stops resembling itself. On view 4 September–11 December 2011. Opening: Saturday, 3 September, 8 pm–12 midnight (Museum Night The Hague). Stroom Den Haag proudly presents a [Read More]
The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (www.adobemuseum.com) is announce its 2011 fall exhibition schedule. On Nov. 9, 2011, at 12:01 a.m. EST, AMDM will launch Journey to Seven Light Bay, a new exhibition by Mariko [Read More]
Cathelijne Broers will be taking over as director of De Nieuwe Kerk and the Hermitage Amsterdam on 1 November 2011. She succeeds Ernst W. Veen, who is retiring at the end of the year. Broers [Read More]
The Museum Of The Rockies is hosting TwoFly Fundraiser on riday & Saturday, September 16 & 17. Join the museum as they head out to the famed blue ribbon waters surrounding Bozeman, MT for a [Read More]
Monticello and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) today announced their collaboration on a new exhibition entitled “Jefferson and Slavery at Monticello: Paradox of Liberty,” set to open in [Read More]