The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University presents “David Gallup: California’s Channel Islands” from May 21 through July 31, 2011. This art exhibition features over 70 original oil paintings by an esteemed [Read More]
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The Pepperdine University Center for the Arts Guild is hosting a fundraiser, ‘Vino, Vines, and Vistas’ on Sunday, May 22, 4 to 7 PM. All proceeds from this event will benefit the Center for the [Read More]
Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the [Read More]
The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, [Read More]
With a $45 million federal appropriation to the Smithsonian Institution, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, will start building what is expected to be one of the most energy-efficient [Read More]
Boeing band music, Tuskegee Airmen, and Blue Star Museum program begins with free admission active military through Labor Day SEATTLE – The Museum of Flight honors military service with patriotic music and ceremonies on [Read More]
The Windermere Steamboat Museum & Historic Boat Collection, situated on the shores of Lake Windermere, has successfully passed the first round of a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bid. The HLF has endorsed the outline proposal, [Read More]
Surpassing attendance expectations, M.C. Escher: Impossible Realities has drawn record crowds to the Akron Art Museum. As the last of only two venues in the United States to show this once-in-a-lifetime loan from Athens, Greece, [Read More]
Three museums will participate in the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day by offering free admission. Seattle Art Museum will offer free admission to the Seattle Art Museum Downtown and the Seattle [Read More]
Derrick Cartwright is resigning as SAM’s Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director effective June 30, 2011. Mr. Cartwright was named the museum’s director in May 2009. “This was a difficult decision for me but I feel the [Read More]
The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the [Read More]
The American Independence Museum host an Art & Antique Appraisal to benefit the Museum on Saturday, 14 May 2011 at Exeter Town Hall, 7 Front Street, Exeter, NH Professional appraisers from prestigious Winston Art Group, [Read More]
Join the chase and follow clues which lead you around the incredible hidden museums & collections at University College London, hunting out intriguing objects and specimens in store. There are prizes to be won by [Read More]
First African-American military pilots in May 29 panel SEATTLE – Three of the first African-American pilots in the U.S. military will share their experiences during a panel discussion at The Museum of Flight on [Read More]
After several months of research and exploration, the Peoria Riverfront Museum Board voted Thursday to partner with international immersive theater specialist Global Immersion to provide the technical solution for the museum’s Giant Screen Digital Theater [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea from the Walters Collection, on view June 18–September 11, 2011. Eugène Isabey, Fishing Boats, 1862, watercolor heightened with white on paper, acquired by William [Read More]
The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. announced its acceptance of a $10 million pledge from the Lockheed Martin Corporation. The pledge, which is the single largest dollar gift the Foundation has ever received, will be [Read More]