Pianist Brad Mehldau joins forces with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) for the live premiere of a new milestone in symphonic jazz recordings, Highway Rider, Friday-Saturday, November 5-6, at 8 pm in the Walker [Read More]
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The Serpentine Gallery has appointed Zaha Hadid to renovate The Magazine building in Kensington Gardens into a new cultural venue. The new gallery, about the same size as the Serpentine Gallery’s present main space, is [Read More]
Satellite Gallery opens with a significant nod to Vancouver’s own history of experimental art, presenting an early video projection of a performance artwork by Vancouver-based artist Glenn Lewis. Exhibited here for the first time in [Read More]
The President of the Foundation, Michael O’Brian, has been a long time friend and advisor both to MOA and the UBC Faculty of Arts, and a dedicated supporter of the arts in Vancouver. Both he [Read More]
The Muskegon Museum of Art presents Splendid Threads, Secret Messages: The Language of Japanese Kimonos, open through January 23, 2011. The exhibition provides an introduction to the world of Japanese kimonos. Symbolic messages are hidden [Read More]
The Olympic Museum is to be completely modernised over the next few years. The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Executive Board decided last week in Acapulco (Mexico) to invest in an ambitious renovation project. “The effort [Read More]
The Museum of Printing History presents Poems and Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946-1981), open through January 29, 2011. Poems & Pictures examines the relationship between visual and language art. The [Read More]
Creative Discovery Museum will celebrate the dawning of 2011 in unique fashion with a New Years at Noon celebration held December 31. This is the only local New Year’s Eve event designed specifically for children [Read More]
The Tyler Museum of Art presents L.O. GRIFFITH Painting the Texas Landscape, the first major exhibition on L.O. (Louis Oscar) Griffith (1875–1956), featuring over 70 paintings of beautiful and majestic landscapes of Texas, open through [Read More]
Bill Nichols joins the Frick as Director of Operations & Visitor Services from Austin Museum of Art, Christine Chambers is promoted to Director of Finance and Administrative Services Frick Art & Historical Center Director Bill [Read More]
Reading Museum presents the exhibition Celebrity, open through 09 Jan 2011. Up close and personal – a touring exhibition of belongings from the world of showbiz including Marilyn Monroe’s dress, Fred Astaire’s shoes, Cher’s necklace, [Read More]
Reading Museum presents Uncertain Moments – Uncomfortable Truths, open 05 Feb 2011 To: 24 Apr 2011. Some pictures can be understood immediately but some become increasingly puzzling the more you look at them. The figurative [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host a variety of free public programs to celebrate American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month in November, including dance, theatrical performances, art demonstrations, films and [Read More]
The LBJ Museum of San Marcos presents a new exhibit LBJ Country: Through the Camera Lens of Norman Dietel that focuses on the photography of long-time publisher and managing editor of the Fredericksburg Radio Post. [Read More]
The Museum of Performance & Design presents Toy Theatres: Worlds in Miniature transporting visitors into the enchanted world of imagination that appeals not only to children, but to the child within each of us. The [Read More]
The Mobile Museum of Art presents Fairy Tale Art: Illustrations from Children’s Books, on view through January 2, 2011. Fairy Tale Art features 59 original illustrations from well-loved classic fairy tales as well as modern [Read More]
In celebration of the play’s 20th anniversary, the Museum of Performance & Design will mount an extraordinary new exhibition, More Life! Angels in America at Twenty, which opens November 6, 2010 and runs through March [Read More]
The new Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art is opening on November 6, 2010. The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum Of Art is a non-profit art museum and arts center located in Biloxi, Mississippi, dedicated to the ceramics of George [Read More]