New York’s 33rd annual museum mile festival takes place on Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, 6pm – 9pm, rain or shine, with ‘Free Museum Admission and Outdoor Art Activites’ . One day a year, for the [Read More]
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This summer, experience three thousand years of Chinese art and culture in five exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This exhibition series, titled the Summer of CHINA, is part of a year-long celebration honoring the [Read More]
The Childrens Museum of Phoenix marks it’s 2nd Birthday on June 14 by celebrating everything “2”. Visitors to the Museum on Monday, June 14th will enjoy: • 2-for-1 admission (admission is only $9 for every [Read More]
The exhibition is on view in the Main Library’s second and third floor galleries through June 25, 2011 during regular Library hours. Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult [Read More]
The opportunity to buy an affordable boat and support a good cause will be at the annual Boat Auction held on Saturday, September 3 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels. The [Read More]
On view from February 15-April 22, 2012, the second New Museum “Generational” triennial will examine the practices of emerging artists born since the mid-1970s. Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public [Read More]
First Major Pissarro Exhibition to Focus on the Personal Ties and Social Ideas of the Famous Impressionist Master The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will present a new exploration of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro [Read More]
The Laguna Art Museum presents Noguchi: California Legacy. Exhibition open June 12-October 2, 2011. Isamu Noguchi is an internationally celebrated Japanese-American artist and designer. Noguchi: California Legacy is comprised of three parts that examine the [Read More]
In 1952 Henri Matisse was asked to create a stained-glass window for the mausoleum of art collector Albert Lasker, and he took on the project with enthusiasm. His full-scale maquette was made with shapes cut [Read More]
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents Man Ray | Lee Miller Partners in Surrealism. On view June 11, 2011 to December 4, 2011. l’Heure de l’Observatoire – les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers), 1964 [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art has acquired a major group of works from the collection of exhibition organizer, publisher, and dealer Seth Siegelaub, a key supporter of artists working in dematerialized art practices in the [Read More]
From June 14, 2011, to January 8, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections. The exhibition investigates major trends in U.S. and European art in a singular [Read More]
The de Young Museum presents an exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) from the permanent collection of Paris’s world-renowned Musée National Picasso. The once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, made possible only because [Read More]
A colossal marble bust of George Washington by French artist Pierre-Jean David, called David d’Angers (1788–1856), in the collection of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is on view after undergoing conservation analysis [Read More]
The Schneider Museum of Art presents Views from the Inner Eye. Opening with a public reception on Thursday, June 16, 5-7pm, comprising of three one-person exhibitions including, “Morris Graves: From the collection of the Vellutini [Read More]
The National Quilt Museum presents The Nature of Design: Quilts by Cynthia Morgan and Velda Newman. On Exhibit June 8 to September 5. How do quiltmakers respond to nature? How do they portray nature in [Read More]
The William Benton Museum of Art presents The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka, on view now through August 7, 2011. The colored woodcut was ubiquitous in 19th-century Japan, and for Europeans a [Read More]
The Hood Museum of Art presents Embracing Elegance: American Art from the Huber Family Collection on view June 11 through September 4, 2011. Jane Peterson, The Dry Dock, c. 1915, opaque watercolor and charcoal on [Read More]