The Barnum Museum has been awarded $40,000 from the Fairfield County Community Foundation (FCCF) to be used to match a $100,000 Endangered Building Grant received from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. This grant [Read More]
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In January 2012, Heritage Auctions will host a special auction at the Florida United Numismatist (FUN) Convention aimed at establishing a $1 million endowment for the renowned National Numismatic Collection, considered one of the finest [Read More]
January 11–May 22, 2011 – WORKS FROM PARKETT COLLECTION The Parkett magazine was founded in Zurich in 1984 by a group of friends, with the idea of generating an open exchange between artists and writers [Read More]
“¿Tierra de nadie?” (No Man’s Land?) is an exhibition that explores complex processes of land appropriation and different forms of popular resistance which incorporate a fundamental criticism of the logic of private property as the [Read More]
The National Art Education Association (NAEA) recently named Stacy Fuller, Amon Carter Museum of American Art director of education, as the Western Region Museum Art Educator of the Year. The award will be presented March [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Museum of XXI Century Arts of Rome announce Interboro Partners of Brooklyn, NY, as the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program in New [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains the first major exhibition in more than thirty years to examine Tipis of Plains Peoples. On View February 18 through May 15, 2011. Tipi: Heritage [Read More]
New Presidents Gallery Will Feature All 44 U.S. Presidents The new U.S. Presidents gallery opening February 17, 2011, will make Madame Tussauds D.C. the only place in the world where people can see and interact [Read More]
The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles presents Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey. Based on the ARIA Multimedia Entertainment large-format book of the same name, Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey is one of the first major museum exhibitions [Read More]
The National Art Museum of China holding an exhibition of donations from the National Art Museum of China in the past five decades in a bid to present a wonderful cultural feast to the public [Read More]
Dion Brown is the new Executive Director of the B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi. He comes to the job from Wichita, Kansas where he has been Chief Operating Officer at [Read More]
The Kunstmuseum Bonn presents Emotion is a Private Matter. Works from the Museum of Prints and Drawings Berlin, on Display with Additional Loans, on view through 5.05.2011. During the Weimar Republic, Verism and the New [Read More]
Museum of London’s new music trivia app! Soundtrack to London has been exclusively developed for Nokia’s Ovi Store and reveals some of the people, places and events that have made London one of the world’s [Read More]
Alec Baldwin, the prolific star of film, television, and theater, will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image on Monday, February 28, 2011 at Cipriani 42nd Street at its annual gala Salute. A [Read More]
The Museum of London presents London Street Photography an exhibition on view 18 February to 4 September 2011, FREE entry. Street photographs are at the heart of our understanding of London as a diverse and [Read More]
The Grohmann Museum presents Lake Boats: The Photography of Jim Brozek and Christopher Winters open through April 3, 2011. Local photographers Jim Brozek and Christopher Winters have both spent time on Great Lakes freighters documenting [Read More]
The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents The Art of Video Games, an exhibition open March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012. The Art of Video Games is the first exhibition to explore the forty-year evolution [Read More]
The Museum at Campbell River presents Textile Art Exhibit – Turning the Tide, one ripple at a time… On view February 8 – 20, 2011. “Turning the tide, one ripple at a time” is an [Read More]