Opens August 22, 2011; inaugurates School of Architecture exhibition program for 2011-2012 academic year The career of eminent architect and educator Stanley Tigerman is the subject of a retrospective exhibition opening at the Yale School [Read More]
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The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD is hosting the inaugural James L. Stewart Memorial St. Michaels Grand Prix on Sunday, November 13, from 12noon to 4pm. Come watch and join in [Read More]
Three Toledo area women have been named to positions in the recently reorganized education department at the Toledo Museum of Art, Director Brian Kennedy has announced. Following a national search, Dr. Katherina Danko-McGhee joins the [Read More]
The Museum of History and Art in Ontario presents Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964, on view AUGUST 25 – OCTOBER 30. This is a multi-faceted exhibition about the largest guest worker program in United [Read More]
A special tour for adults of the Beautiful Obsolescence exhibit at the Huntington Museum of Art will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. HMA is [Read More]
The Milwaukee Art Museum announced a $7.6 million gift from the estate of Milwaukee business owner and his wife, Leonard and Bebe LeVine. The donation, received after Mr. LeVine’s death in 2008, is more than [Read More]
The Milwaukee Art Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its iconic building, the Quadracci Pavilion, with the exhibition Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee Art Museum, photo: Michael Hicks. [Read More]
The Boise Art Museum’s 75th Anniversary exhibition in 2012 is a celebration of the Museum’s Permanent Collection, highlighting over 100 important artworks in a variety of mediums and from both historical and contemporary periods. The [Read More]
The 20th Annual Labor Day Parade, co-sponsored by the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark and the Borough of Haledon, is scheduled for Sunday, September 4th, 2011, and will step-off at 1:30 PM. This year’s [Read More]
The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) has announced a $10 million grant from Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his family, that will be used to establish the “Center for Innovation” at the [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass, which features more than 45,000 objects from 35 centuries of glass art and history, has released a new mobile app with information about its collection and related glassmaking techniques. The [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery presents Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter on view through through October 14, 2012. This exhibition displays the diversity of contemporary Asian American identity through the groundbreaking work of seven [Read More]
The Foundry Art Centre is hosting a special Family Culture Days Kickoff event on Sunday, August 28, 2011 from 1:00 until 7:00 pm. PNC Arts Alive is presenting sponsor. The Family Culture Days Kickoff event [Read More]
More than 250,000 people have visited the Museum of Liverpool since it opened four weeks ago, equivalent to the capacities of Anfield or Goodison Park 5 to 6 times over and more than half the [Read More]
If you own a NFC enabled phone, then make sure you take full advantage of this cutting-edge technology by tapping the tags around the museums to help you make the most of your visit. NFC [Read More]
The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Hokusai – Retrospective 26 August to 24 October 2011. For the first time in Germany a major retrospective is to be devoted to the world-famous Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849). Perhaps his best-known [Read More]
The National Museum of Contemporary Art / Seoul Olympic Museum of Art/ Arts Council Korea presents Itjanayo(You Know…) Public project on view September 7, 2011–October 23, 2011 at the Cheonggyecheon Plaza in Seoul, Korea. Soo-in [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)announced that in its 150th year it had acquired a highly important masterpiece by Correggio, one of the most influential figures of the Italian High Renaissance. Director Gerard Vaughan unveiled [Read More]