The Rijksmuseum will celebrate Christmas 2010 with two exceptional acquisitions that highlight the birth of Christ. It recently acquired an extremely rare silver ‘prayer nut’, containing miniature carvings only millimetres in size and depicting the [Read More]
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum presents A Little House Christmas: An Exhibit, open November 20 – January 2, 2011. Twenty trees decorated in the traditions of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family. The [Read More]
Minneapolis civic leaders had the foresight 125 years ago to create the parks system we enjoy today, so we too must plan for future generations. Climate change, limited natural resources, economic instability, and changing demographics [Read More]
Smithsonian American Art Museum presents Alexis Rockman A Fable for Tomorrow. Open November 19, 2010 – May 8, 2011 Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow is the first major survey of the artist’s work with [Read More]
Exceptional Significance of the Fossil Ecosystem Becoming Increasingly Apparent After a month of frenetic activity, Denver Museum of Nature & Science scientists and volunteers have finished their initial excavation of the Ice Age fossil site [Read More]
The Melton Carnegie Museum re-opened on Saturday 13th November folowing a major building project which has created a new stae-of-the-art gallery, study area and community space for museum acrtivities, schools, volunteers and community groups. The [Read More]
The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced that Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a scholar of African-American history from Indiana University, has been selected as the next Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black [Read More]
It’s Wall-to-Wall Walker on Saturday, December 4, 10 am-8 pm, the Walker Art Center’s day-into-night celebration with extended hours of all things Walker: film, performance, and an array of artworks from the exhibitions Event Horizon, [Read More]
Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914 will focus on Pablo Picasso’s cardboard and sheet-metal Guitar sculptures, and the incandescent period of material and structural innovation these sculptures bracket in the artist’s long career. The exhibition will be on [Read More]
The “Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery” opens to the public Nov. 19 at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, replacing the original “Pioneers” gallery that opened in 1976. Updated with new research, it [Read More]
Here at the museum, we have a new member, the Blue Planet. To contrast with the cosmos that is Footprints, we have decided to counter with a more terrestrial movie. The Blue Planet is about [Read More]
App Showcases 60 Works of Art Drawn from Major Exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, with Video, Audio, Archival Photographs, and More In conjunction with the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York, on view at [Read More]
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – When museum/gallery studies students at Front Range Community College open their fourth annual juried art exhibition Friday, Dec. 3, at the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, they also will be [Read More]
The Geffrye Museum presents Christmas Past 2010. 400 Years Of Seasonal Traditions In English Homes, open Tuesday 23 November 2010 – Wednesday 5 January 2011. Christmas Past offers visitors a fascinating insight into how Christmas [Read More]
The National Museum of the Morgan Horse has opened in it’s new home in Middlebury. The museum tells the story of the Morgan horse. The Morgan is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in [Read More]
The Geffrye Museum presents Sitting the Light Fantastic: an installation by Kei Ito, on view through Autumn 2012. Kei Ito’s Sitting the Light Fantastic will form the centre-piece of the newly refurbished front garden at [Read More]
Museum Announces Groundbreaking for New Art Handling Facility, Building Momentum for its Master Plan for Growth The Philadelphia Museum of Art has broke ground on an approximately 68,000 square foot Art Handling Facility which represents [Read More]
The Alexandria Museum of Art presents Travis Whitfield: Further On Down the Road, on view through February 26, 2011. Artist, Travis Whitfield discovered the small town of Keachi, LA on his many trips between Shreveport [Read More]