The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD begins a new “This Old Chesapeake House” speaker series on January 30, with four more sessions scheduled for February 6, 12, 26, and March 7. [Read More]
The National Museum of Natural History recently acquired its first complete skeleton of a North Atlantic right whale. Accession of the 45-foot adult whale specimen was made possible thanks to an international collaboration of museum [Read More]
Museene i Sør-Trøndelag, MiST, requires a new Director for Trondheim Kunstmuseum. This is a six-year fixed-term vacancy, with the possibility of extension. The Director is responsible for leading strategic and operational duties at the museum. [Read More]
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) presents What Did The Artist Mean By That? Yuri Albert / Ekaterina Degot on view January 12, 2014. With texts by Viktor Agamov-Tupitsyn, Oleg Aronson, Bart de Baere, [Read More]
The Meadows Museum in Dallas, presents Sorolla and America an exhibition on view December 13, 2013 – April 19, 2014, which will explore for the first time Joaquín Sorolla’s unique relationship with the United States [Read More]
Jorge Daniel Veneciano is leaving the Sheldon Museum of Art to become director of New York’s El Museo del Barrio. Veneciano, who has been Sheldon’s director since 2008, will begin work in his new position [Read More]
Haus der Kulturen der Welt starts its new program year in February with the theme days Narrating War. The project asks: What is it about the experience of extreme violence that that makes it so [Read More]
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts presents Clemens von Wedemeyer The Cast through 26 January 2014. A film show that discusses memory, the mechanisms of cinematographic fiction and the themes of contemporaneity Props [Read More]
In 2014, Haus der Kunst continues proposing—to a broader, intergenerational public—the idea that the museum is not only a place to encounter art. It’s also one where the personal meaning of art—a painting, sculpture, photograph, [Read More]
The National Museum of American History presents “Puppetry in America” a new display open from on Dec. 13, featuring several Jim Henson puppet characters, the namesake puppet from The Howdy Doody Show and many other [Read More]
PHILADELPHIA — If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in museum dioramas, look no further than Unnatural History, a photographic series by nationally renowned photographer Lori Nix, opening April 19 at the [Read More]
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the only Smithsonian facility to have been built with private funds, will mark 10 years of operation Dec. 15. Since it opened in conjunction with the nation’s Centennial of Flight [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art, Roma Capitale, and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC, present one of the most famous works from antiquity, the Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman sculpture created during the first [Read More]
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin announces the appointment of Dr. Beverly Adams as Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art. Most recently at the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne presents Melbourne Now an exhibition on view through 23 March 2014. Melbourne Now celebrates the latest art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice to reflect the complex creative landscape [Read More]
TheGetty Research Institute, Getty Center presents Connecting Seas: A Visual History of Discoveries and Ecounters on view December 7, 2013–April 13, 2014. Connecting Seas draws on the Getty Research Institute’s extensive special collections to reveal [Read More]
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart – Berlin presents Wall Works an exhibition on view through August 31, 2014. The exhibition Wall Works examines wide-ranging artistic interpretations that have redefined the wall as a visual [Read More]
Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, announced today that Scott Schaefer, the Museum’s senior curator of Paintings since 1999, will retire on January 21, 2014. Schaefer joined the Museum in February 1999, [Read More]