HOUSTON – The Menil Bookstore will reopen to the public on the first day of September. The unveiling follows a two-month renovation and introduces Bookstore Manager Paul Forsythe, a well-known figure in Houston’s literary and [Read More]
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CLEVELAND – New movies are the focus of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s September and October film schedule. Nearly all of the 16 films screening over the next two months will be making their exclusive [Read More]
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announce that Marci Driggers Caslin has been promoted to registrar. She joined the museum’s staff as exhibition coordinator in March. In her new position, [Read More]
Sam and Friends Characters Donated to the National Museum of American History The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History accepted 10 characters from Sam and Friends from Jane Henson, on behalf of the Jim Henson [Read More]
Dundee’s waterfront is going to be transformed and the public are invited to take part in the transformation. The new £47 million museum will be built close to Discovery Point in the south of Craig [Read More]
This year, the Taft offers some new twists on old Christmas favorites. Upon entering the galleries, visitors will find an intricately folded paper dollhouse home to miniature paper dolls. Nearby, a collection of antique Noah’s [Read More]
CINCINNATI – The Robert S. Duncanson Society of the Taft Museum of Art has selected violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama as the 2010 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence from a talented pool of local and national candidates. A nationally recognized [Read More]
The Broad Collection, a public museum of contemporary art and headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library, will be built on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles and will be designed by world-renowned [Read More]
Constellation Energy today announced that it will supply 2,000 renewable wind energy certificates (RECs) to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to match the estimated 2,000 megawatt hours of electricity used by the [Read More]
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and nationally premiering at the Newark Museum, is the first exhibition to focus on the career of one of [Read More]
A museum dedicated to prominent Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko has opened in the town of Kaniv in central Ukraine where he is buried. Hanna Herman, President Viktor Yanukovych’s deputy chief of staff, [Read More]
Are you delighted by or curious about kinetic artworks? Then seize this opportunity to work with artist, tinkerer, and alchemist Aaron Kramer and create your own kinetic invention! Aaron will show you how to use [Read More]
Washington DC- The International Spy Museum has welcomed an experienced intelligence analyst, author and scholar as the organization’s new historian. Mark Stout has 13 years in intelligence, including time spent with both the CIA and [Read More]
Atos Origin, an international IT services company, partners the National Library of France (BnF) in implementing an unparalleled long-term digital preservation solution for its digital holdings, a first worldwide.SPAR (Système de Préservation et d’Archivage Réparti [Read More]
The British Library is to make its extensive collections of bibliographic records available for free to researchers and other libraries: www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html The UK national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of [Read More]
Exhibition open through Sunday, September 26, 2010 The culture of figurines in Japan has broken out of the otaku subculture and gained acclaim on the global art scene. Looking back at the past, the culture [Read More]
GERMANY’S KUNSTHALLE BIELEFELD DIRECTOR TO SUCCEED MARIANNE STOCKEBRAND IN JANUARY, 2011 The Chinati Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Thomas Kellein as its next director. An accomplished art historian, curator, and museum [Read More]
WASHINGTON – The National Geographic Museum will open a new photography exhibition, “Simply Beautiful: Photographs from National Geographic,” on Sept. 3, taking visitors on a visual journey through variations on the universal theme of beauty. [Read More]