The Laguna Art Museum announces Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 an exhibition on view October 30, 2011 – January 22, 2012. Often overlooked in art history, [Read More]
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On display in the Autry National Center’s Imagination Gallery is the famous hand-drawn Ponderosa Ranch map that was seen by millions of people around the world during the opening sequence of the popular television series [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum has canceled the spring 2012 presentation of Art in the Streets, the first major United States museum exhibition of the history of graffiti and street art. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary [Read More]
On Tuesday, June 21, Yale University’s Dr. Jon Butler will present “Religion and Politics in the American Experience.” The lecture, which is open to the public, is a program of the Teaching American History professional [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg (MFA) presents Four Portfolios of the Twentieth-Century: Archipenko, Gropper, Evans, and Doisneau on July 16-November 13,2011. This exhibition brings together two lithographic and two photographic portfolios by four [Read More]
The Mercer Museum in Doylestown, presents A World of Things: The Mercer Museum A-Z, the first exhibition in its new, $12.5 million, 13,000-square-foot wing. The exhibition features a diverse sampling of the museum’s 40,000-piece collection [Read More]
The Everson Museum of Art presents The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald on view June 25, 2011 – September 18, 2011. For more than four decades, David MacDonald has masterfully created richly [Read More]
The Mint Museum presents From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland, the first exhibition to explore the artist’s striking Irish portraits, on view through 7 August 2011. Organized by The Mint Museum and [Read More]
Creating the New Century, is a special exhibition, on view through JULY 10, 2011. organized by The Dayton Art Institute, features 70 paintings, drawings, and sculptures – all created since the year 2000 – from [Read More]
As part of its 50th birthday celebrations the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has generously awarded the Art Fund a grant to support RENEW, a funding scheme designed to encourage new approaches to collecting fine, decorative or [Read More]
The new M Shed Museum in Bristol opened to the public on Friday 17 June 2011. Built on the site of the former Industrial Museum in Prince’s Wharf on Wapping Road, in Bristol, M Shed [Read More]
The Racine Art Museum presents Field of Vision: Artists Explore Place, on view now through October 2, 2011. Our feelings or memories about a place are formed by how a location (beach, forest, field, building) [Read More]
The Henery Ford Museum is displaying the original Emancipation Proclamation for a limited time in June. On loan from the National Archives, the original Emancipation Proclamation is one of the landmarks of American history. As [Read More]
Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh has approved a site on the North Post of Fort Belvoir, Va., for construction of the National Museum of the U.S. Army, scheduled to open in June 2015. [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection, on view June 17 – September 4, 2011. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents works from one of the [Read More]
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Gustav Stickley & the American Arts and Crafts Movement, the first nationally touring exhibition to focus on the artist’s career and his contributions to the history of American [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, on view June 18 – October 16, 2011. Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Collection is an exhibition that [Read More]
Edgar Hansen of the fishing vessel Northwestern—as featured on Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch,” is coming to St. Michaels, MD and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Sunday, August 14 for the 2nd annual Watermen’s Appreciation [Read More]