“Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels” examines the renowned jewelry firm’s significant historical contributions to jewelry design and design innovation, particularly during the 20th century. Organized by Sarah Coffin, curator and [Read More]
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Decades of artistic experience and influence will be honored when the Museum of Ventura County presents Four Masters – Four Legends, a retrospective exhibition of work by Carlisle Cooper, William McEnroe, Norman Kirk and Gerd [Read More]
The Walker Art Gallery presents A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro on view through Sunday 15 May 2011. Cranach, Lamentation over dead Christ. © David Lewis Family Interests A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro features [Read More]
The Royal BC Museum is using a $750,000 donation from the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts to purchase and preserve a Bill Reid masterpiece, which will go on display today in its world-renowned First [Read More]
The Phase One Construction includes: New landscaping, a new, spacious Front Plaza with a water feature, open-columned entrance off Main Street, and an eight paneled mosaic Timeline of Ventura County History, crearted by artist Larissa [Read More]
On Friday, March 4, Historic Waco Foundation and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum are joining together to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Texas Independence. The event will be held at the newly [Read More]
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]
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]