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]
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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]
Key, original excerpts from the historic Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo can be seen at Arizona State Museum, February 2 through 28, 2011. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (named for the town near Mexico City where [Read More]
The Sprengel Museum in Hannover presents Portrayals of Dance in Modern Art. From Varieté to the Bauhaus Stage, on view 02. February 2011 – 01. May 2011. The renowned dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Mary [Read More]
The first of 70 million Baby Boomers will reach age 65 in 2011. The size and impact of this post World War II generation will challenge America’s resources, communities, and concepts of what it is [Read More]
The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) has announced that Suzanne Isken, former Education Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), has been appointed to the role of director, following Maryna Hrushetska’s departure at [Read More]
The University Museums host lectures, gallery talks and curator’s talks throughout the year, in conjunction with current exhibitions or to highlight research on works from the permanent collection. All events are free and open to [Read More]
Featuring David Harrington of Kronos Quartet, WAC ATTACK: TASK Party, Film Screenings, and the Logic of LeWitt Gallery Talk Target Free Thursday Nights in February feature Making Music: David Harrington (February 3), a conversation between [Read More]
On Saturday and Sunday, February 12 and 13, SFMHS will bring together more than 20 San Francisco neighborhood historical associations to create mini-museums in the Old Mint, showcasing their unique contributions to our City. Through [Read More]