Visual artists working in Washington, Oregon or Idaho are invited to apply for the Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM’s) annual Betty Bowen Award. Applications are available now at www.callforentry.org, and the deadline for submissions is Monday, [Read More]
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Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of 227 photographs taken by Ai Weiwei, capturing the history, culture, and atmosphere of 1980s New York from his unique perspective. The exhibition, on view June 29 through August [Read More]
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment, contemporary works by Philadelphia artists Arden Bendler Browning, the Dufala Brothers, Ben Peterson, and Amy Walsh, on view July 2 – [Read More]
The Design Museum in London is hosting a Summer Party July 6 at 6 – 10pm. The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, [Read More]
The Trustees of the Design Museum announced a major gift by the Conran Foundation, endowed by Sir Terence Conran towards the museum’s new development project. This will help to create the world’s leading museum of [Read More]
Tate Britain presents BP British Art Displays: Has the film already started? on view 27 June 2011 – Thursday 1 March 2012. Significant new acquisitions to Tate’s Collection by some of Britain’s most innovative contemporary [Read More]
The Tallahassee Museum presents it’s 33rd annual Swamp Stomp on Saturday, July 9, 4-9 p.m. Along with the music, you can enjoy outdoor games, close-up animal encounters, living history demonstrations, and environmental education. The line-up [Read More]
The Carnegie Museum of Art presents Architectural Explorations an exhibition on view through August 12, 2011 in The Heinz Architectural Center. The Heinz Architectural Center’s collection comprises more than 5,000 drawings, models, photographs, rare books, [Read More]
The Museum of Glass presents Mildred Howard: Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech. Exhibition open July 2, 2011 – April 29, 2012. Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech is a new [Read More]
The Worcester Art Museum presents Leisure, Pleasure, and the Debut of the Modern French Woman, on view through September 11, 2011. This exhibition presents prints and drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that illustrate [Read More]
Digital Archive Initiatives are a catalyst for the future of the field of 20th century Latin American and Latino Art The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its research institute, the International Center for the [Read More]
Getty is first museum to provide expanded Google Goggles™ experience to visitors The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced a collaboration with Google that enables visitors using the Google Goggles™ mobile application to now have [Read More]
For the fourth installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, renowned sculptor Elspeth Pratt draws on architectural forms as inspiration to investigate how built environments define public space. While her artworks negotiate a line between abstraction [Read More]
On the occasion of the publication of the Annual Review of 2010/11, the British Museum announces future plans alongside a review of international successes in the last year The British Museum remained the most popular [Read More]
CHESTERFIELD, Missouri – The Kemp Auto Museum announced the recent addition of Jacqueline Manne as Event Coordinator at the Museum and for their special events division, Kemp Museum Services. Currently a resident of the City [Read More]
The Fundació Joan Miró, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, and the ArtAids Foundation present You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde Teerlinck, Director of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque with [Read More]
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired a Table in Swedish-style art deco by by Anna Petrus. This table was designed by Anna Petrus (1886–1949), an artist working in Sweden during the first half of the [Read More]
Brent Glass, 64, has announced he will retire from the Smithsonian. He is leaving his position as director of the National Museum of American History effective July 10; he will continue at the Smithsonian as [Read More]