The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow has extended The River Runs Through It exhibition. Riverside Construction (detail) by Charles Jamieson, MFA PAI PPAI Last year, a number of artists were invited to visit [Read More]
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In 2009, when the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon unveiled a previously unidentified portrait with strong claims to be the only surviving contemporary likeness of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), it created an international stir. The Jacobean-era [Read More]
The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center will show an environmental film River Ways on Tuesday, February. The 85-minute documentary is the fourth film in this season’s Wenatchee Valley Environmental Film Series, presented by the [Read More]
The National Children’s Museum (NCM), announced it will work in partnership with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street. The National Children’s Museum will provide Sesame Workshop a permanent museum home in the nation’s [Read More]
The Oceanographic Museumis displaying a site-specific commission by Huang Yong Ping as part of a major exhibition dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea The Oceanographic Museum in Monaco hosts a unique exhibition dedicated to the Mediterranean [Read More]
The Delta Museum and Archives presents Border, Bay, and Beach: Always in the Headlines on view until April 2011. This exhibit will provide a look into the development of areas in and around South Delta. [Read More]
Visitors of the Ava Gardner Museum have long known that the Museum is one of North Carolina’s most remarkable attractions and the one-of-kind venue is an outstanding tribute to one of Hollywood’s most glamorous leading [Read More]
Historic, Three-Year Preservation Project Restores The Landmark Façade of the Library On 42nd Street One of the New York City’s most revered and cherished icons is celebrating its 100th birthday this year – and thanks [Read More]
The Museum of Anthropology, has found a future home in the historic horse barn on campus. The building is known as the “Old Art Barn”. The iconic 1919 Utah State University Barn has generated nearly [Read More]
Pilgrim Hall Museum has reopened with the exhibition, Whose History?: Contemporary Photography of Plymouth on view through April 30, 2011. Four contemporary photographers look at familiar historic sites in Plymouth , Massachusetts , in an [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has launched its 150th anniversary year, a major milestone in the history of Australia’s first public art gallery. Victorian Premier and Minister for the Arts, Ted Baillieu, NGV Council [Read More]
The National Civil War Museum announced it will open a series of year-long exhibits in recognition of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War. In January of each year beginning in 2011 through 2015, each [Read More]
The American Folk Art Museum will dramatically transform the Park Avenue Armory’s historic 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall with the installation of 650 red and white American quilts, all of which are on loan from [Read More]
The Children’s Museum, Seattle is celebrating National Wear Red Day by offering free admission* to children wearing red on Friday, February 4th. On National Wear Red Day children ages 10 months to 10 years old [Read More]
The long list of museums competing for the ‘Museum of the Year’ accolade has been selected by an independent panel of judges, chaired this year by broadcaster and former cabinet minister Michael Portillo. The Art [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media February 16–28, 2011. Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, running February 16 through [Read More]
The Toledo Museum of Art will be closed today, February 2, due to the Level 3 snow emergency declared in Lucas County. The Toledo Museum of Art was founded April 18, 1901. The seven incorporators [Read More]
The Arizona State Museum hosts the 13th Annual Southwest Indian Art Fair, Saturday, February 19, 10 a.m.–5 p.m – Sunday, February 20, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Meet 200 Southwest Native artists, many of them award-winning. Talk [Read More]