The Field Museum was recently named in the running for America’s Best Restroom contest. The Field has been named a finalist for the 10th Annual America’s Best Restroom Award. The award, sponsored by Cintas Facilities [Read More]
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The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum presents Copley to Warhol, an exhibition on view through September 17, 2011. Consisting of 30 of the finest American paintings in NOMA’s collection, Copley to Warhol briefly [Read More]
On view are two exhibitions drawn from the Hilliard’s collection. Over the past four decades the University’s Art Museum has established through the generous gifts from local patrons and Alumni a wonderful collection of American [Read More]
This exhibition highlights some of the recent acquisitions to the museum’s permanent collection over the past decade. On view now through through December 18, 2011. Over the past decade, the museum has added over 850 [Read More]
Miracles and Charms, Wellcome Collection’s autumn exhibition programme, explores the extraordinary in the everyday with two shows: Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings, the first major display of Mexican votive paintings outside Mexico; and Felicity Powell: [Read More]
The pilot cutter Edmund Gardner – one of the world’s 50 most important preserved ships – re-opens to the public for the first time since 2006. The iconic ship, part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum’s [Read More]
One of the largest and most important sets of portraits of early English kings and queens is on display at the National Portrait Gallery for the first time in 36 years, on view through 4 [Read More]
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired a collection of materials from husband-wife duo actress Carlin Glynn and writer and director Peter Masterson [Read More]
Check out Sewall-Belmont’s exciting programs & gallery talks in August The National Woman’s Party and Political Rhetoric: Visual Propaganda in the Battle for the Vote On Thursday, August 25, at 7 p.m., the Sewall-Belmont House [Read More]
The Bowers Museum presents Scrimshaw: The Art and Craft of the American Whaler, on view through september 30, 2011. Scrimshaw: The Art and Craft of the American Whaler celebrates this unique American folk art, created [Read More]
The California African American Museum presents Women: Game Changers, Less Known, Here Celebrated, on view August 3rd – November 6th, 2011. Opening: August 3rd 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Utilizing CAAM’s soaring entrance space, flying [Read More]
The Sheldon Museum of Art presents The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper. Exhibition on view thru September 25, 2011. The 55 works on paper in this exhibition date [Read More]
The Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is reinstalling its permanent collection galleries with a new show, “Histories,” which focuses on the complexity of the subject. The exhibition opens with a First [Read More]
The Muskegon Museum of Art will host Salon Thursday on August 04, an event for artist’s and art lover’s. ARTISTS: Bring two works to display for the evening, which we will install on the Walker [Read More]
Night Festival 2011 returns from 26 – 27 August and 2 – 3 September 2011, celebrating a cultural apotheosis at the Bras Basah Precinct Embark on a voyage under the stars from 26 – 27 [Read More]
The Smithsonian Latino Center will host a symposium Aug. 4 – 5 at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of its Central American Ceramics Research Project. The symposium will begin Aug. 4 [Read More]
The Southern Ohio Museum presents “Steamboats on the Ohio” a new exhibition on view 8.2.11-10.8.11. Vintage photographs from the Carl Ackerman Collection join hand-crafted antique models to celebrate the elegant, classic history of the river [Read More]
The Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, AR. is currently undergoing a major restoration project and plans to re-open January 14, 2012. Artist rendering of new street-level entrance on President Clinton Avenue Thanks to a [Read More]