The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) presents A Walk in the Wild: Continuing John Muir’s Journey, on view August 6, 2011, through January 22, 2012, in the Museum’s Great Hall. John Muir’s experience in the [Read More]
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The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum hosts Mark Twain’s Hannibal: The Clemens Conference, August 11-13, 2011. Before he became “Mark Twain” in Virginia City, Nevada in 1863, Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s literary path was firmly [Read More]
Longest-standing director in museum history; his tenure includes post-graduate schools, major acquisitions, alliances, and national honors Dr. Anthony Bannon, director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, announced today he will be [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago presents a presentation of work by Anne Elizabeth Moore Exhibition on view August 6-28, 2011. Anne Elizabeth Moore: Garment Work, 2010. Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Germany. Photo courtesy of the [Read More]
The Fuller Craft Museum presents a Lighter Hand: The Glass Drawings of Michael Janis, on view August 6, 2011 – November 6, 2011. The exhibition features the recent work of the virtuosic Washington, DC-based artist, [Read More]
The George Eastman House presents Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera an exhibition on view through September 18, 2011 in the Brackett–Clark Gallery. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) adopted photography in the mid-1930s as a tool to bring [Read More]
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents Chelpa Ferro Visual Sound, on view to January 8, 2012. Chelpa Ferro is a Brazilian collective comprised of artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Sergio Mekler that was formed in [Read More]
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach is closing from Sept. 12 and will reopen at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, while it undergoes renovations. Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of [Read More]
“From the Hand: Drawings from the Hofstra University Museum Collection,” on view through September 11, 2011 in the Hofstra University Museum’s David Filderman Gallery, located in the Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, ninth floor, [Read More]
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art presents Surrounding Bacon & Warhol, on view through 23.10.2011. Francis Bacon (1909–1991) and Andy Warhol (1928–1987) were two great artists of the 20th century with very different approaches to [Read More]
This year’s annual meeting of The Ukrainian Museum, on June 26, saw the election of a new president of the Board of Trustees, Mykola Darmochwal, and the installation of several new Board members. As in [Read More]
Jonathan Bober has joined the National Gallery of Art, Washington, as curator and head of the department of old master prints. He succeeds Peter Parshall, who headed the department from 1999 until his retirement in [Read More]
Brookhaven Town Board Approves License for LIMHOF to Move Into Historic First National Bank, Brookhaven’s former Tax Receiver Office Building in Port Jefferson Village Councilman Fiore-Rosenfeld has announced the Town Board approval of the new [Read More]
Special Exhibit Spotlights the “Queen of Comedy” and the Genius of Desi A new exhibition at the Hollywood Museum celebrates two milestones in the life of America’s Queen of Comedy: Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday on [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts has announced its unanimous decision to appoint Kristina Van Dyke as Director, following an intensive international search. Ms. Van Dyke, currently the Curator for [Read More]
The Deer Valley Rock Art Center is seeking volunteers to spend a few hours a week in a beautiful corner of Phoenix, surrounded by nature. The center is hosting a Volunteer Orientation event on Saturday, [Read More]
The ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands presents “Dalí: Mind of a Genius on view now through 30 October, 2011. The Exhibition presents over 250 Savador Dali artworks, making this the first time ever that [Read More]
The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the appointment of Naima J. Keith as Assistant Curator. Naima J. Keith comes to the Studio Museum from a position as Curato- rial Fellow at Los Angeles’s Hammer [Read More]