Pushkin Hills is the story of an unsuccessful writer and inveterate alcoholic who takes a summer job at the Pushkin Hills Preserve in hopes of regaining some balance in his life, only to experience a [Read More]
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Laura Garrity-Arquitt, Museum Registrar and organizer of Holy Fools to Wonderworkers, leads a tour of the exhibit, explaining the distinctions between martyrs, stylites, prophets, ascetics and other types of Orthodox saints, and how they are [Read More]
A comedic fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical stepmother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together. Adults will laugh along with the kids at [Read More]
A 1934 Hoopers Island dovetail Dorothy Lee has recently been added to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s floating fleet in St. Michaels, Md. Dorothy Lee was generously donated by Susan Friedel of Trappe, Md., in [Read More]
Give yourself a special present this year-a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Paris with BMA Senior Curator and renowned French art expert Katy Rothkopf on Tuesday, May 23-Monday, 29, 2017. An Art Lover’s Tour of Paris includes [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) is branching out to libraries across Hamilton County and into Clermont County as part of their Curate My Community initiative. Historic artifacts and scientific specimens will be installed in [Read More]
New York–based contemporary artist Cary Leibowitz (b. 1963) creates comically self-effacing text-based works with a decidedly gay and often Jewish perspective that address issues of identity, kitsch, modernist critique, and queer politics. Since the early [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. begins its “Exploring Chesapeake Stories” Winter Speaker Series on Wednesday, February 8, with the series continuing on select Wednesdays through March 22. Whether true-to-life or fictional, [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. is offering a workshop to teach the basics of carving a nameboard from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, with all participants taking [Read More]
SEATTLE – Santa is letting his reindeer rest up for Christmas Eve, so he and Mrs. Claus will fly a vintage propeller plane to the Museum on Dec. 10. The couple will arrive at 11:45 [Read More]
On the occasion of the publication of the catalogue accompanying The Artist’s Museum, the exhibition currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), the New York Public Library’s An Art Book program presents [Read More]
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has joined Cincinnati Magazine’s Cincinnati Gives Challenge, an unprecedented, year-end fundraising campaign that equips local charities and facilitates connections between the interests of donors and the needs of local [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Dec. 3 the Museum presents “Words on Wings,” a literary event with four Pacific Northwest aviation-themed writers. The authors will give individual presentations on the hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering free admission Monday through Friday this February, with the program offered through the generous support of Free in February sponsors Shore United Bank and Awful Arthur’s of St. [Read More]
Museum Director Karl E. Willers, Ph.D. announced that ground has been broken for The Manes Family Art and Education Center, a dedicated education and exhibition space that will open during 2017. The Manes Center, possible [Read More]
Works by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, John Baldessari and many others Through March 5, 2017, all of Nassau County Museum [Read More]
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. recently welcomed third-grade students from St. Paul’s School in Brooklandville, Md. for a collaborative program exploring the biology, ecology, and environment of Chesapeake Bay oysters. The [Read More]
CINCINNATI – The holidays and Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) go together like hot cocoa and marshmallows. Sure, both are great on their own, but they’re even better together. Starting November 18 you can experience the [Read More]