The Ukrainian Museum and the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund are commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster with the exhibition Inside Chornobyl The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place at the [Read More]
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Ca Corner della Regina, thanks to the collaboration between Venice’s Fondazione Musei Civici and the Prada Foundation, is set to become an important new landmark in Venice’s cultural landscape. Venice’s Fondazione Musei Civici—which is in [Read More]
The Alaska Veterans Museum opened on April 17, 2011 in Anchorage. The Alaska Veterans Museum is focused on honoring the nation’s veterans and insuring that because of the sacrifices they made to defend America’s freedom, [Read More]
Badischer Kunstverein presents Atrium Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai / Pages Two Archives, on view 21 April–19 June 2011. Since 2004, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi have been working under the name Pages on joint [Read More]
The Parrish Art Museum Presents Julião Sarmento: Artists and Writers/House and Home, on viewA pril 17–June 11, 2011. The exhibition underscores the artist’s long engagement with the themes of language, writing, and a sense of [Read More]
The official handover of the largest gift in the museum’s recent history took place on Friday 15 April 2011 in the Frans Hals Museum. The Elisabeth van Thüringen Fund is donating eleven works of art [Read More]
Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces today the appointment of Sarah Schleuning as the Museum’s new curator of decorative arts and design. Schleuning [Read More]
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing [Read More]
The committee for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) 14th Annual Boating Party – Dressing the Ship, has set the date for this year’s signature event for Saturday, September 10, 2011. The fundraising gala will [Read More]
Nina Simon, nationally renowned museum consultant and exhibit-design expert, is the new Executive Director of the Museum of Art & History (MAH) at the McPherson Center in Santa Cruz. After an extensive nationwide search, with [Read More]
George Washington’s home, Historic Mount Vernon, broke ground at a special ceremony on April 14 for a new $47 million presidential library. The groundbreaking program featured remarks by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, an [Read More]
The Bonnefantenmuseum presents Rik Meijers / Jeroen van Bergen, on view 17 April– 3 July 2011. The aim of this duo presentation is to emphasize the differences in work, vision and method of working between [Read More]
The Anchorage Museum presents Sailing for Salmon The Early Years of Commercial Fishing in Alaska’s Bristol Bay on view through Oct. 2, 2011. Through historical photographs and eyewitness recollections, this exhibition unravels the history of [Read More]
Program teaches incarcerated adults new ways of coping, potentially reduces recidivism The Aspen Art Museum (AAM) has partnered with Pitkin County Jail to create arts education programming for incarcerated adults. Since its inception in 2007, [Read More]
The Oregon History Museum presents Soccer City, USA: The Portland Timbers and the NASL Years, 1975-1982. On view April 15, – September 4, 2011. This spring, Oregon launches a new era in sports history with [Read More]
The Jean Brusselmans exhibition opened on 9th April in Mu.ZEE in Ostend. The exhibition runs until 4th September 2011. Jean Brusselmans is the first major solo exhibition in over 30 years’ time, organised by Mu.ZEE [Read More]
The Philbrook presents Precious Possessions: The Art of the Portrait Miniature on view April 10 – July 3, 2011. Philbrook’s Starr collection of portrait miniatures forms the basis for this focused look at the rarified [Read More]
New York’s First Museum Will Welcome the Public with Its First Permanent Installation, Innovative History Museum for Children, Trailblazing Special Exhibition, Premier Restaurant and More Throwing wide its doors as never before, the New-York Historical [Read More]