Allentown, Pa. – On Sunday, July 18 the Allentown Art Museum will present “Peter Grippe: A Personal Vocabulary.” The exhibition will run until November 14, 2010. “Peter Grippe” highlights the work of New York artist [Read More]
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Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales announced the appointment of David Anderson, Director of Learning and Interpretation at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ new Director General. David Anderson [Read More]
Allentown, Pa. – The Allentown Art Museum will be closed to the public beginning Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 to Thursday, September 1, 2011. The closure, which will not affect the day-to-day business operation of the [Read More]
Join master basket weaver, Cat Mena from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Saturday, July 17, at the Nevada State Museum for a hands-on basket making workshop. Designed for beginning weavers, participants will complete a Cherokee [Read More]
“What Continues the Dream: Contemporary Arts and Crafts in the Powwow Tradition” is on display at the Nevada State Museum through August 7, 2010. This colorful exhibit, on loan from the Nevada Arts Council’s Nevada [Read More]
The Lost City Museum presents the exhibit “Of Past and Present” by artist Janet Trobough throughout the month of July. Trobough will show her work, open through July 31, 2010. Displaying a variety of media, [Read More]
Steven Holl Architects has received the 2010 North Norwegian Architecture Prize for the Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway. The Prize is awarded annually to projects with special reference to, and significance for North Norwegian [Read More]
Willard L. Boyd, Rawlings-Miller Professor of Law and president emeritus of the University of Iowa and The Field Museum of Chicago, will serve as interim director of the UI Museum of Art, effective, July 1. [Read More]
On July 25th, following the induction ceremonies for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, John Fogerty will have his legendary baseball bat-shaped guitar put on display and be part of [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays event attracts thousands of visitors to free programs of art and entertainment each month. The August 7 event focuses on Haiti and Brooklyn’s own Haitian community. Select programs are [Read More]
To accommodate its major construction project, Museum of the Moving Image is closed to the public. The renovated and expanded Museum will re-open in early 2011. The Museum building is listed on the National Register [Read More]
The life of Anne Frank, the graphic biography will tomorrow be published in the Netherlands, followed by publications in several other countries later this year. The biography covers the complete life story of Anne Frank [Read More]
The British Library has been awarded the ‘opening the world of knowledge’ award for Timelines: Sources from History (www.bl.uk/timeline) by the Nominet Internet Awards. The Nominet Internet Awards aim to recognise and celebrate individuals and [Read More]
Lena Liv (b. Leningrad, 1952) returned to her homeland after years in Israel and Italy, and followed, in the series of photographs exhibited here, one of its heroic tales: Moscow’s metro stations. With a bold, [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces Jewelry in July, a special weekend trunk show, hosted Friday, July 9–Sunday, July 11, 2010. Located on the Main Level in Galleries 210 and 211, The Museum Shop brings [Read More]
Philadelphia, PA – The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has commissioned world-renowned artist Claes Oldenburg to create a new public artwork for its Lenfest Plaza. The design consists of a 53 foot high [Read More]
One of Northern Ireland’s newest landmark buildings, the £50million McClay Library at Queen’s, was officially opened on Tuesday 6 July by one of Queen’s most famous alumni, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Speaking ahead of [Read More]