The history of motorsports in North Carolina makes for one winning racing story. Nine men have entered the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame for achievement in motorsports: Buck Baker, Richard Childress, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Ned [Read More]
Sculpture belonging to the Royal Family attributed to court sculptor The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum, discovered a previously unknown masterpiece at the auction Property from the estate of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Announces New Methods Symposium May 4–6, 2011. New Methods is a three-day symposium examining the practices of contemporary arts organizations that provide essential educational and professional development to [Read More]
The Art Fund announce that both the Frome Hoard of Roman coins and the Iron Age Hoard of Gold Torcs, or neck ornaments, uncovered near Stirling in Scotland have been secured for the UK public [Read More]
The Pergamonmuseum presents A Collector’s Fortune. Islamic Art Masterpieces of the Keir Collection, open 18 March 2010 – until further notice. Known around the world as the ‘Keir Collection’, Edmund de Unger’s collection of Islamic [Read More]
The Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin presents Schahname. Heroic Times. A Thousand Years of the Persian ‘Book of Kings’ on view Sat 19 March – Sun 19 June 2011, Pergamonmuseum. In 2010 the world [Read More]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists. Omer Fast Tuesday, April 5 Omer Fast works with film, video, and television footage to examine the complex interplay [Read More]
The Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the North American Steamboat Modeler’s Association (NASMA) and the Washington Ship Model Society are sponsoring the 7th Maritime Model Expo on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, [Read More]
The Chard Museum is at present closed for the winter and will reopen on Monday 18 April 2011. The Museum & Heritage Centre exhibitions have been expanded and improved steadily over the years and contain [Read More]
The Pacific Tsunami Museum will host it’s 9th Annual Story Festival on Sunday, April 17, 2011. The theme this year is “I Grew up on Piopio St.” It is that little bit of a street [Read More]
The Museum of Geology on the School of Mines Campus in Rapid City South Dakota has reopened. The museum closed for renovations, including installation of a new roof on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The mission [Read More]
The Gibbes Museum of Art presents Art of Our Time Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University on view through March 27, 2011. Featuring significant 20th and 21st century artists such as [Read More]
With the exhibition Appeal for an Alternative / Aufruf zur Alternative the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen establishes the Schmela Haus as an arena for testing out experimental and interdisciplinary projects. The reactivation of this icon of modernist [Read More]
The Harn Museum of Art has announced The Mind’s Eye 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann an exhibition open June 14, 2011 – September 11, 2011. Beautiful and surreal, funny and provocative, the photographs [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA) Presents Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century on view now through May 30, 2011 in the Audrey Jones Beck Building. Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, [Read More]
The Sparks Heritage Museum has announced Sparks in Space Exhibit. Over the next six months the Museum will offer a series of activities focusing on the different topics featured in the Sparks in Space exhibit [Read More]
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Presents Big Picture (Orte / Projektionen) / Big Picture (Locations / Projections) on view March 19 – August 14, 2011. With the exhibition Big Picture (Locations / Projections), the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen showcases [Read More]
The Mississippi Museum of Art presents Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders on view March 19–June 12, 2011. It has been fifty years since the historic summer of 1961 when hundreds of [Read More]