Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with museum representatives and Holocaust survivors, opens the doors to the new home of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust located in Pan Pacific Park, on OCT 14, 2010. City officials, [Read More]
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‘Out of Art into Literacy’ celebrates the outcomes of two innovative projects with primary schools: ‘Into the Frame’ and ‘Out of Art into Storytelling’. Both enabled teachers to explore the potential of National Gallery paintings [Read More]
In an effort to highlight the multiple cultural attractions located within convenient walking distance of each other, several of Manhattan’s downtown museums have banded together to create the Downtown Culture Pass — a ticket, good [Read More]
For better or worse, politicians and entertainers have dominated public life in America for much of the twentieth century. Members of both professions, striving to create a vibrant connection with the public, have found their [Read More]
On Saturday, October 23 and in conjunction with Frederick Douglass Day, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, Maryland will unveil the recently restored, historic Mitchell House as a new permanent exhibit. Now [Read More]
Nevada historian and author, Phillip I. Earl, presents Barnstorming! Early Aviation in Nevada, Thursday, October 28, at 7 pm at the Nevada State Museum. Earl’s presentation accompanies the theme of this year’s Nevada Day celebration, [Read More]
The Dorsky Museum of Art will present Binary Visions : 19th-Century Woven Coverlets from the Collection of Historic Huguenot Street in the Sara Bedrick Gallery October 16, 2010 – March 18, 2011. This exhibition, selected [Read More]
The North Lincolnshire Museum presents William Fowler of Winterton Exhibition, open through January 16, 2011.. A look into the life and work of William Fowler, architect and artist, who worked in Winterton during the Georgian [Read More]
The DePaul University Art Museum presents The Basilica of St. Vincent de Paul : Architecture of the Catholic Renouveau in Paris, open through November 20, 2010. An exhibition, publication, and related programs on the history [Read More]
The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston, Ill., has announced plans to present an annual lecture honoring Dr. Carlos Montezuma, an early 20th-century Native American physician and civil rights crusader who lived and [Read More]
Architect Charles Gwathmey’s Last Major Museum Completed The Crocker Art Museum has opened a 125,000-square-foot expansion designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (GSAA), to the public, on 10 October. One of GSAA co-founder Charles [Read More]
Bequest given by Dr. David A. Cofrin, founding donor of of the Harn at the University of Florida Dr. David A. Cofrin, one of the founding donors of the Harn Museum of Art at the [Read More]
The Multimedia Sikh Museum in Mississauga, opened to the public on Sunday, October 10th, 2010. This hi-tech project was spearheaded by Surrey, British Columbia based encyclopaedist, museologist, drug therapist and community activist Dr. Raghbir Singh [Read More]
The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida celebrated its 20th anniversary on Oct. 8, the evening before the UF vs. LSU football game, with a special birthday benefit “20 Candles: Come As [Read More]
This major new exhibition highlights the museum’s young but rich collection of contemporary Native American art. “Vantage Point” features significant works by 25 established and emerging artists from across the United States and Canada and [Read More]
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut, the Italian artist’s first American solo exhibition. Featuring more than 20 of her artists’ books, collage-poems, [Read More]
For more than fifteen years, the Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave has been producing a completely original body of work that is quite easy to explain but very difficult to categorize. Her central project has [Read More]
30 years on from the establishment of the sister city relationship between Dunedin and Otaru, Japan, the Otago Museum’s latest exhibition celebrates the longstanding bond between the two cities. Contemporary Traditions: Dunedin and Otaru Celebrate [Read More]