The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD has expanded its members’ docking services to include free Wi-Fi, complimentary coffee, and extended hours of operation. The museum’s 18-acre waterfront campus sits along the [Read More]
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From Saturday, June 18 to Sunday, July 31, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University presents 73 photographs documenting the efforts of individuals around the world to improve the lives of others from Saturday, [Read More]
The Arizona State University Art Museum (ASU) presents its 12th Annual Summer Family Exhibition Words of Art: Selections from the ASU Art Museum Collection, on view through Sep 3, 2011. Visit the ASU Art Museum’s [Read More]
The Art Gallery of South Australia opened the doors to the newly refurbished Elder Wing of Australian Art on Saturday 18 June, following a ten month, $3.6 million refurbishment. The opening marks the 130th anniversary [Read More]
The local meets the global at Carnegie Museum of Art with the Pittsburgh Biennial open June 17–September 18, 2011. For the first time, the Biennial extends beyond Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria presents Vienna: Art & Design a dazzling display of over 300 extraordinary works by the greatest Viennese artists of the early 20th century. Open 18 June–09 October 2011. Vienna: Art [Read More]
Enjoy the beauty of the BMA’s Sculpture Gardens with a glass of wine, good friends, and cool jazz on a hot summer night. Select Saturdays in July and August, Twilight tours, 5 p.m. (includes evening [Read More]
The Guggenheim Museum recently acquired three seminal works by artist, philosopher, and poet Lee Ufan. The two sculptures and one painting come into the collection on the eve of this summer’s retrospective Lee Ufan: Marking [Read More]
The Lost City Museum features the work of artists Jo Tame and Betty Halverson. A stunning pairing of decorative gourds and mixed media, southwestern themed paintings will be available for purchase. The exhibit will run [Read More]
John W. Smith has been appointed director of the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, effective fall 2011. Smith comes to the Museum with a distinguished background in visual arts institutions. He currently [Read More]
The Irvine Museum presents California Rhapsody featuring early artists of the Bohemian Club on view through November 3, 2011. In 1872, a number of San Francisco painters, writers, musicians and actors joined together as a [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America with a display of objects on view Sept. 3 to Sept. 11 from 11 a.m. to [Read More]
Photographer Steve McCurry chose NYC and India for his historic journey and photographs When Kodak announced in 2009 it would no longer produce Kodachrome film, company officials announced two ways the famed film would be [Read More]
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film announces the appointment of Dr. Paolo Cherchi Usai to the position of senior curator of motion pictures, a title he held from 1994 to 2004. He [Read More]
Nicknamed La Mélinite after a powerful form of explosive, the dancer Jane Avril (1868-1943) was one of the stars of the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s. Known for her alluring style and exotic persona, her [Read More]
With the invention of the automobile 125 years ago, one of the most coveted desires of the 19th century was fulfilled – unlimited individual mobility From the 18 June 2011 to 8 January 2012, the [Read More]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence on view 23 June–25 September 2011. Man has always been fascinated with secret societies and their clandestine rites, their covert [Read More]
Tate Liverpool will present a René Magritte Summer School, against the backdrop of it’s exhibition René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle. Summer School explores the artistic practice of both Magritte and the Surrealists, focussing on popular [Read More]