Carnegie Museum of Art acquires major works for its collection of early American glass and contemporary craft and design. he museum acquired two remarkable cut and engraved glass water decanters commissioned as part of a [Read More]
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the appointment of Linda Lipscomb as the new deputy director for advancement beginning September 1, 2011. As the leader of the museum’s development team, Lipscomb will work toward raising [Read More]
National Museum Wales’s historic photography goes digital thanks to a £600,000 gift from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation A new project to curate and digitise historic photography from Wales’s national collections has been made possible with [Read More]
The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki presents Disquieting Muses an exhibition on view through 4 September 2011. The exhibition presents works from 7 contemporary women artists—Diana Al-Hadid, Lara Baladi, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Mona Hatoum, Hayv Kahraman, [Read More]
The Design Museum London presents This Is Design an exhibition on view 24 August 2011 – 22 January 2012. This is Design is a celebration of the Design Museum’s Collection, which examines the impact of [Read More]
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents Bay Area Now 6. on view now through September 25, 2011. The sixth edition of YBCA’s signature triennial exhibition, Bay Area Now, a roundup of exemplary talent [Read More]
West Seattle pilot to receive French president’s medal for WWII service SEATTLE – During a Friday, July 22 ceremony next to the Museum’s B-17, long-time Seattle resident Henry “Sandy” McMurray, 90, will be awarded [Read More]
The Carnegie Museum of Art presents Picturing the City: Downtown Pittsburgh, 2007–2010. Exhibition open September 23, 2011–March 25, 2012 in the Works on Paper Gallery. Martha Rial, American, b. 1961; Last Penguins Game at Civic [Read More]
July 22 is Mars Day at the National Air and Space Museum. The annual event marks the July 20, 1976, landing of Viking 1, the first spacecraft to operate on Mars. The day will feature [Read More]
The National Art Museum of Sport (NAMOS) will open the Football Invitational exhibit at NAMOS on July 28, 2011. The exhibit will feature nearly fifty paintings, sculptures and photographs from many of the top sport [Read More]
The Oakland Museum of California is hosting a special cheese-making event. Watch demos of making queso fresco, stretching mozzarella, making a cheese sculpture, and how to crack open of a huge wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano. [Read More]
The High Museum of Art has recently acquired a significant collection of 56 prints by artist Kiki Smith from collector Stephen Dull. The acquisition was made through a partial gift from Dull and partial purchase [Read More]
The iPad tour is available at the Museum’s front desk to all visitors ages 18 and older with a valid driver’s license. An iPad tour costs $3 in addition to regular Museum admission. The tour [Read More]
The Butler Institute of American Art, located at 524 Wick Avenue in Youngstown, announced that the museum has acquired a master work by American painter James Longacre Wood (c. 1863-1938) titled “Mumble the Peg.” Painted [Read More]
The Butler Institute of American Art hosts Annual National Juried Show: 75th National Midyear Exhibition, Jun 26, 2011 Through Aug 28, 2011. This annual juried exhibition is open to artists over 18 years of age [Read More]
Ramon Dominguez, Todd Pletcher, Nick Zito, Charles Hayward and P.J. Campo to participate in National Museum of Racing’s Saratoga Preview Eclipse Award winners Ramon Dominguez and Todd Pletcher, Hall of Famer Nick Zito and the [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria presents 10 ways to look at the past on view 23 July 2011–19 February 2012. As part of the contemporary art program, the National Gallery of Victoria presents 10 ways [Read More]
The National Gallery of Victoria presents This Wondrous Land: Colonial Art on Paper, on view 16 July–27 November 2011. This exhibition explores colonial settlement in Australia through a stunning selection of late eighteenth and nineteenth [Read More]