A massive conference table surrounded by 12 chairs created from driftwood by British furniture maker / artist Silas Birtwistle promotes conservation of the world’s seas, oceans and forests. He travelled to Belize, Vancouver Island, Tanzania [Read More]
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The Marblehead Museum’s current exhibition, Black & White Recollections 2010 is on view until February 25, 2011. The exhibition features early photographs documenting daily life in 19th century Marblehead – when bicycles ruled the byways [Read More]
Colonel Richard Graham (USAF Retired) will be making a welcome return to Imperial War Museum Duxford on Sunday 20 March. At 11.00am, Colonel Graham will host a brand new talk in the Marshall Auditorium in [Read More]
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum’s Street Art Season was seen by over 15000 people, making it the most popular art exhibition ever shown at the museum, and second most popular exhibition after Wallace and [Read More]
A reception on Wednesday, March 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. at the White Plains Museum Gallery will open a two-and-a-half month long exhibition of art by painter, sculptor, professional violinist & teacher David Tobey. [Read More]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents It has to be this way² by British artist and Derek Jarman Award winner Lindsay Seers open through Sunday 12 June 2011. “I was her mother but she was [Read More]
The Akron Art Museum and Tuesday Musical Association eagerly present another exciting series of cutting-edge performances by world-class, classically trained musicians testing new musical frontiers by fusing standard repertoire and works by contemporary composers. FUZE! [Read More]
On February 13th, a Lincoln Birthday Celebration is planned at the Forbes House Museum, following a long standing tradition of celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. The day will include selections from the Mary Bowditch Forbes Lincoln [Read More]
With 95 percent of the funds in hand, the Board of Trustees of Maryhill Museum of Art has unanimously agreed to begin construction on the 25,500 square foot Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing. An official [Read More]
Bold Banners: Early Civil War Flags of South Carolina Early Confederate battle flags from South Carolina display an incredible amount of artistry and patriotism in their design. These flags lack the stereotypical Confederate battle flag [Read More]
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum presents Shield and Storm: 20th Anniversary of the Persian Gulf War on view through June 25, 2011. n the First Persian Gulf War (August 1990-February 1991), [Read More]
The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation brings together eleven works by eleven artists that look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to critically comment on the past and [Read More]
The Rowan Museum opens With These Hands- Black History Exhibit the museum’s latest Black History exhibit on Sunday afternoon, February 13. It will feature handcrafted arts and crafts from local black citizens, past and present. [Read More]
Drawing from material culture, thing theory, anthropology, Museum education, and traditions of storytelling, Object Stories, the Portland Art Museum’s new installation, is an open-ended exploration of the relationship between people and things, the Museum and [Read More]
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (AAHMSNJ) opens three new exhibition on Saturday February 12, 1-3pm. Ralph Hunter’s Pictures of Africa: A Dream Fulfilled Rod Robinson’s Images of Africa Jacqueline Hall-Smith Displays [Read More]
“Tyondai has with great ambition and detail-loving hard work created music that is a mash-up of 20th-century music and has bravely taken an extra step: into the unknown.”– Björk Tyondai Braxton Photo: Grace Villamil Best [Read More]
On Saturday, February 12, the Illinois State Museum will present two free family programs. Celebrate Cultural Diversity! from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Music Around the World Super Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 [Read More]
Baltimore – Director Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum announced today that Dr. Regine Schulz, director of international curatorial affairs and curator of ancient art at the Walters since 2000, has been named executive [Read More]