The Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians from Tuolumne, Calif., are bringing the museum’s official holiday tree to Washington, D.C. To celebrate, the museum invites the public to a performance of the Me-Wuk Indian dancers in [Read More]
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool presents The Living and the Dead Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby, the first retrospective of work by the Liverpool born artist John Kirby, on view from 13 January [Read More]
George Minne and Maurice Maeterlinck were ‘symmetrical spirits’, who were seen as innovators in their time in the international arts centres. The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent presents The World of Minne and Maeterlinck, [Read More]
The Art Fund is appealing for £362,500 to give the Fourth Plinth Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare, MBE, a permanent home at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Nelson’s Ship in a [Read More]
Antoine Watteau’s magnificent picture La Surprise has long been deemed a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French painting by scholars and connoisseurs. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), La Surprise: A Couple Embracing While a Figure Dressed as Mezzetin Tunes [Read More]
The Musei Capitolini in Rome are lending San Francisco one of their greatest treasures, the Baroque masterpiece The Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of history’s finest sculptors and a leading figure in 17th-century Italian [Read More]
The Nationalmuseum Stockholm collection of sculpture has gained a terracotta sculpture by the French artist Claude Michel, known as Clodion. Clodion, Satyr and Nymph, detail. The sculpture of a satyr embracing a nymph typifies Clodion’s [Read More]
The Museum of Art at Brigham Young University presents Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) an exhibition on view December 16, 2011 – April 7, 2012 in the Warren & Alice Jones and [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent presents “John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum” an exhibitionon view through January 29th 2012. John Constable, Study of Cirrus Clouds, ca. 1821-1822, Victoria and [Read More]
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco presents The Cult of Beauty. The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900 open from February 18, 2012, is the first major exhibition to explore the unconventional creativity of the British Aesthetic [Read More]
The Museum of Art at Brigham Young University presents The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art an exhibition on view through May 19, 2012 . The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions [Read More]
The de Young Museum in San Francisco presents Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler an exhibition of approximately 55 ceramic and bronze works spanning the career of sculptor Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011 [Read More]
Artistic San Francisco at the Legion of Honor, on view through, is an installation of prints, drawings, photographs and paintings from the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums that pays tribute to the unique [Read More]
Kerry Taylor Auctions of London said the chiffon dress, designed in 2006, was brought by Musea de la Moda a fashion museum in Santiago, Chile. “This sale demonstrates that even in these difficult economic times, [Read More]
Developed by architectural firm Snøhetta in collaboration with SFMOMA and EHDD of San Francisco, the design details released today reveal increased public circulation between the museum and the city through the creation of free ground-level [Read More]
With 79 percent of the capital campaign goal raised two years ahead of the groundbreaking for the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the museum’s Board of Trustees has approved visitor- [Read More]
SEATTLE – On Thursday, December 1, The Museum of Flight will turn into a classroom for students in the University of Washington Museology program’s museum education course. As part of their coursework, students have designed [Read More]
The Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes present Joachim Koester Of Spirits and Empty Spaces. On view 10 December 2011–19 February 2012. Opening: 9 December 2011, 6.30 p.m. The Institut d’art contemporain has invited Joachim Koester for [Read More]