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]
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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]
The exciting and ambitious plans for the new development will provide additional galleries, new open access stores / study facilities and dedicated spaces for life-long learning, education outreach services and arts development programmes. It will [Read More]
Exhibition: Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool – September 9, 2010 through January 2, 2011 at Asia Society Museum, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York. This fall, Asia Society devotes its entire museum space to [Read More]
Energy efficiency programme receives accolade as part of Mayor of London’s green initiatives The British Library has invested in an ongoing programme of energy efficiency lighting upgrades as part of its energy action plan. This [Read More]
The twenty-first century commenced amidst great upheaval—global conflict, the struggle to reconcile individual and societal freedom, changing modes of communication and rampant consumerism. Artists Christian Widmer and Mike Williams use the camera to respond intuitively [Read More]
A photograph of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) will be presented to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in a ceremony for invited guests Oct. 1. The event recognizes the cartoonist’s impact on millions of [Read More]