The Rice Hotel in Houston was the second stop of a planned five-city Texas visit that was to have finished at a fund-raiser dinner in Austin. The Kennedy assassination happened in Dallas the next day. [Read More]
Museum News
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The Wright Museum of WWII History has announced the launch of its completely redesigned and upgraded website. Mark Foynes, the Executive Director of the Wright Museum, and Jim Fontaine, an Internet Architect and the owner [Read More]
The Michigan State University Museum presents a special exhibition, “MASK: Secrets and Revelations,” on view now through January 22, 2012 in the Main Gallery, that will put many of its global collections on public display [Read More]
The Nevada Arts Council presents “Vertical Landscapes: Wet/Dry (Revisited),” a series of photographs by Dean Burton, in its Carson City office now through April 1 as part of the Office eXhibition Series (OXS). An artist [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD has announced a lecture series to begin in March and continue through June, 2011. Held in the Museum’s Van Lennep Auditorium, the 90-minute lectures cover [Read More]
UCL Museums & Collections presents Distant Vistas on view through 22nd April. Distant Vistas is an image exhibition that showcases the diverse nature of planetary bodies in our solar system, and also the wide-range of [Read More]
The Rowan Museum is holding a Mardi Gras Party on February 26, 2011 in the Messinger Room of the Museum. “Mother Blues” will be performing. $25 per person. The Rowan Museum, Inc. was founded in [Read More]
The Cincinnati Art Museum presents Going Dutch: Contemporary Design from Local Collections and the Cincinnati Art Museum, on view through April 10, 2011. This past year marked the Cincinnati Art Museum’s first major acquisitions in [Read More]
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the ROM’s Friends of South Asia present the third annual South Asian Heritage Day in honor of the third anniversary of the opening of the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South [Read More]
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior on view Feb. 20–May 29, 2011. Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior will be the first major museum exhibition to focus on Vishnu—one of Hinduism’s [Read More]
The DuSable Museum of African American History will present Sixteen Pieces an exhibition open April 1, 2011 – June 26, 2011. Sixteen Pieces is an exhibition of visual art based on the sacred literature of [Read More]
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum celebrated it’s 10th Birthday with a Free Museum Day. The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum are dedicated to educating visitors about the impact of violence, informing about [Read More]
Master interpreter of the Great American Songbook Joanna Pascale will be the featured performer at the James A. Michener Art Museum’s February 26 Jazz Night. Since emerging onto Philadelphia’s jazz scene, Pascale has established herself [Read More]
The Kingston Museum presents Muybridge Revolutions an exhibition on view through 19 March 2011. Pioneering moving image photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), left a valuable cultural legacy to his home town of Kingston upon Thames. This [Read More]
Elvis is in the house and Ali is in the ring. Two of our nation’s most well-known icons—”the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “the Greatest”—meet at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, [Read More]
The yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway culminates with a free talk by Winston-Salem native W. Jeff Miller at Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Wednesday, February 23 at [Read More]
On May 8, 2011 the Worcester Art Museum presents Peter Sulski, violin/viola and Michelle Graveline, harpsichord. in the Dutch galleries. Experience a salon concert with outstanding musicians, surrounded by world-class art. Sponsored by a gift [Read More]
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s beautiful grounds and the Fine Arts Garden have long been popular destinations for wedding photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art is asking you to submit a photograph taken in these [Read More]