Military and civilian choppers descend for free family event at the The Museum of Flight SEATTLE – June 18 is a day of heroes and helicopters at The Museum of Flight. The family-friendly American [Read More]
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Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa, an overview of Nubia’s rich culture, from its earliest kingdoms (3200–3000 BC) to the Kushite period (ca. 900–400 BC), closes to the public on June 12. On view at New [Read More]
The National Museum of XXI Century Arts designed by Zaha Hadid is celebrating its first birthday having opened to the public on 30 May 2010 after a three-day inauguration (27, 28, 29). To mark the [Read More]
Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with BCWH Architects has won the commission for the new Institute for Contemporary Art for Virginia Commonwealth University. The building will create a new forum for the arts on campus [Read More]
The Getty Research Institute presents Display and Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue. Exhibition open May 31—August 21, 2011. Display and Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue illustrates the making of [Read More]
Visitors to the Kimbell Art Museum exhibition Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, on view now through August 21, 2011, will be able to use a specially created iPad application to delve more deeply [Read More]
Behind The Seams, featuring three new galleries, is the new star attraction at Armley Mills Museum, once the site of the largest woollen mill in the world. The project, led by not-for-profit company Leeds Fashion [Read More]
Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan, a traveling exhibition organized by the Textile Museum of Canada, makes its United States debut at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. On view now through through July 31, 2011. Afghan [Read More]
A superb collection of early tobacciana will be smoking its way across the auction block on June 18 as Morphy’s presents a 900-lot Antique Advertising sale featuring the specialty collection of the Gotham Cigar Museum [Read More]
The Heard Museum is now part of the Blue Star Museum Initiative! The program offers free admission to the Heard for all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 30, through [Read More]
The Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Arts has been given another significant gift with the donation of the Santa Fe Collection of Navajo Rugs from Dr. Charles and Linda Rimmer. The 77 Navajo textiles, [Read More]
Artpace, Blaffer Art Museum and Flo Art Fund present At the Back of the North Wind, an exhibition of new works by Anton Ginzburg, an official collateral event of the 54th International Art Exhibition at [Read More]
The Johnson Victrola Museum, located at 375 S. New St. in Dover, Del., resumed a full operating schedule on May 7, 2011, in which it will be open for public visitation from Wednesday through Saturday, [Read More]
As many as 471,168 art lovers visited the exhibition Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907. “This means that three out of every four visitors to our museum also visited the Picasso exhibition, a remarkably high figure. This [Read More]
Visitors to watch curators refurbish historic PT-boat, tanks and other artifacts The National WWII Museum hits another milestone in its ongoing $300 million expansion project with the June 4 opening of the John E. Kushner [Read More]
The National World War II Museum has unveiled a new website mymemorialday.org, featuring 10 ways to honor those who have fallen in the service of their country. The Museum will also host a day of [Read More]
The El Paso Museum of Art presents Common Language, Punctuating the Landscape, Suzi Davidoff Rachelle Thiewes on view March 27 – September 25, 2011 in the Gateway Gallery Three major components comprise the Common Language, [Read More]
The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester presents the UK’s first major exhibition about British war correspondents, revealing the people behind the news – with many unique, historic items from household name reporters on display [Read More]