Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the addition of three key staff members. Matthew Dawson joined the Museum’s senior management team as deputy director of art and education on March 14. David Houston assumed [Read More]
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The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm presents Lust & Vice a major exhibition filling three rooms and five display cases. Over 200 works from the 16th century to the present day, mostly little-known treasures from the museum’s [Read More]
Great Falls Construction of Gorham, Maine is preparing to renovate and restore the historic Walker Memorial Library, saving the building structure from water damage, and securing it for the future. The Walker Memorial Library is [Read More]
Launching at Annapolis’ Eastport Yacht Club on Saturday, May 21, the inaugural Elf Classic Yacht Race will bring the centuries-old tradition of yacht racing to the Bay in a race benefiting and ending at the [Read More]
Amon Carter Museum of American Art Director Andrew Walker has announced promotions in the development and accounting departments. Amon Carter Museum Coy Fagras has been named associate director of development. She is responsible for cultivating [Read More]
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Through the Ages. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay [Read More]
A mid-career survey of internationally acclaimed glass artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit) opened at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center Saturday, March 19. Singletary combines traditional [Read More]
An exhibition of Old Master prints by many of the most famous artists ever to work with print-making opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Wednesday 23 March 2011. [Read More]
Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Announces Plans for Prince William County Addition Dumfries, Va. – The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation has announced its plan to expand the Marine Corps Heritage Center with the development of a [Read More]
The Children’s Museum in Easton will celebrate it’s 20th birthday, Saturday, April 16 – Saturday, April 23. The museum will host all kinds of birthday fun from face painting and cupcake decorating to magicians and [Read More]
The history of motorsports in North Carolina makes for one winning racing story. Nine men have entered the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame for achievement in motorsports: Buck Baker, Richard Childress, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Ned [Read More]
The Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin presents Schahname. Heroic Times. A Thousand Years of the Persian ‘Book of Kings’ on view Sat 19 March – Sun 19 June 2011, Pergamonmuseum. In 2010 the world [Read More]
The Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the North American Steamboat Modeler’s Association (NASMA) and the Washington Ship Model Society are sponsoring the 7th Maritime Model Expo on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, [Read More]
The Chard Museum is at present closed for the winter and will reopen on Monday 18 April 2011. The Museum & Heritage Centre exhibitions have been expanded and improved steadily over the years and contain [Read More]
The Pacific Tsunami Museum will host it’s 9th Annual Story Festival on Sunday, April 17, 2011. The theme this year is “I Grew up on Piopio St.” It is that little bit of a street [Read More]
With the exhibition Appeal for an Alternative / Aufruf zur Alternative the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen establishes the Schmela Haus as an arena for testing out experimental and interdisciplinary projects. The reactivation of this icon of modernist [Read More]
The Mississippi Museum of Art presents Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders on view March 19–June 12, 2011. It has been fifty years since the historic summer of 1961 when hundreds of [Read More]
A group of artists has painted a wall mural of Laupahoehoe peninsula prior to 1946. Laupahoehoe, Pacific Tsunami Museum The artistic creation was designed and painted by Elfie Wilkins and two of her students, Lena [Read More]