NEW ORLEANS – The National World War II Museum’s epic cinematic production Beyond All Boundaries garnered a ringing endorsement last month when the 4-D cinematic tour de force won the American Association of Museums (AAM) [Read More]
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall will host a three-day Living Earth Festival, Friday, Aug. 6, through Sunday, Aug. 8, that acknowledges Native contributions to managing the environment and [Read More]
Interactive exhibit looks at the invaluable contributions of animals NEW ORLEANS – The National World War II Museum is officially going to the dogs (and horses, mules and birds!) with the newest exhibit Loyal Forces: [Read More]
New Position Endowed by Alumnus Preston H. Haskell III PRINCETON, N.J.—Furthering its position as a pacesetter in modern and contemporary art, the Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Kelly Baum as the first Haskell Curator [Read More]
The Egan Maritime Institute and the Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum recently launched ACKweather.com, a new website that provides detailed weather, wind, surf and tide information for Nantucket Island and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In addition [Read More]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents a selection from the works of provocative photographer David LaChapelle (b. Connecticut, 1963), exhibited in Israel for the first time, giving a comprehensive view of his unique and [Read More]
Lincoln, MA, – DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to announce the arrival of Roy Lichtensteins Five Brushstrokes, a monumental addition to the Sculpture Park on Thursday, July 22.. The 2010 fabrication of Lichtensteins [Read More]
Each year the Ava Gardner Museum celebrates Ava’s life and career by hosting the Ava Gardner Festival. This annual event includes heritage tours, screenings of classic Ava Gardner films, and special exhibits. This year’s festival [Read More]
The Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre will be involved in judging the Design for Health Award – launched in partnership with TV’s Dr Christian Jessen and the Child Growth Foundation – to encourage [Read More]
Life size bronze of famous racehorse and Alberta jockey George Woolf unveiled Cardston… “So Long, Charley!” is the name of the statue depicting Cardston hero George Woolf riding Seabiscuit to victory in the riveting 1938 [Read More]
This exhibition is the first major survey of paintings by the British-born, Yale-educated painter Rackstraw Downes (b. 1939), who divides his time between New York and Texas and has been painting exterior and interior panoramic [Read More]
To celebrate its upcoming exhibition, “Wedded Perfection: Two Centuries of Wedding Gowns”, which runs from October 9, 2010 to January 30, 2011, the Cincinnati Art Museum has partnered with Cincinnati Wedding magazine, WLWT Channel 5 [Read More]
The Huntington Museum of Art will host an opening reception at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 18, 2010, for Curiosity and Wonder: The Collection of Dr. Marion C. Korstanje. Admission to the opening reception is free. [Read More]
Celebrate South African culture and the legacy of Nelson Mandela with music and dance performances, talks and storytelling at The British Museum, Great Court. Free entry. Sunday 18 July is international Nelson Mandela day. To [Read More]
$10,000 prize to winner who lives in Museum 24/7 for 30 days this fall CHICAGO- Are YOU ready to eat and sleep science? Then the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, wants to hear from [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) today unveiled the design for its new facility. The $26.3 million project will be the first major building in the United States and the first museum?for the internationally [Read More]
Chopin and Liszt draws on the Academy’s Collections to highlight the impact of these two seminal figures on nineteenth-century keyboard culture. Open September 2010-September 2011. By the early years of the nineteenth-century, the piano had [Read More]
Specialising in the collection, study and display of tea ware, the branch museum at Flagstaff House features at its core the generous donations of Dr K.S. Lo (1910-1995) , which include many fine examples of [Read More]