The Wellcome Collection Museum presents High Society, open 11 November 2010 – 27 February 2011. With the illicit drug trade estimated by the UN at $320 billion (£200bn) a year and new drugs constantly appearing [Read More]
The Aspen Art Museum presents Mamma Andersson, an exhibition open December 10,2010 through February 6, 2011. Swedish painter Mamma Andersson works between domestic interiors and the Nordic landscape, often layering imagery to create subtly haunting, [Read More]
The Museum of the Rockies presents Wolf to Woof: The Story of Dogs, on view through January 30, 2011. The largest and most comprehensive exhibit ever created on the history, biology, and evolution of dogs. [Read More]
Three giants of 20th-century American photography—Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand—will be featured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 10, 2010, through April 10, 2011, in the exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, [Read More]
The report commissioned by National Museums Scotland and compiled by independent consultants Biggar Economics, projects that £58.1 million in Gross Value Added (GVA) per year will be generated for the Scottish economy, supporting over 2600 [Read More]
The People’s History Museum welcomed the Mayor of Nagasaki along with colleagues from the city to Manchester. Mr Tomihisa Taue together with Cllr Mark Hackett, the Lord Mayor of Manchester, visited the People’s History Museum [Read More]
The Hirshhorn announces a new two-person “Directions” exhibition featuring the work of Cyprien Gaillard (French, b. Paris, 1980) and Mario Garcia Torres (Mexican, b. Monclova, 1975), on view Nov. 10–March 27, 2011. These artists represent [Read More]
CCA Kunsthalle presents the latest acquisitions from the ART FOUNDATION MALLORCA COLLECTION (AFM). Open through 1 March 2011. The presentation includes acquisitions from 2010 or works not earlier shown in an AFM exhibition by the [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces the appointment of Andrew J. Walker, Ph.D., as Director Designate. Walker begins January 31, 2011, and will officially become director on April [Read More]
The new opening hours from November 2010 to February 2011 are Tuesday – Friday from 10.30 am to 4 pm. Saturday, Sunday, Monday and holidays closed. Information concerning possibilities to visit the CCA outside opening [Read More]
The spring 2011 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, it was announced by the Museum today. The exhibition, on view from May 4 [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would undertake a comprehensive, multi-year effort to redesign and rebuild the four-block-long outdoor plaza that fronts its landmark Fifth Avenue façade. The project will feature as one [Read More]
Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture, on view November 10, 2010 through May 30, 2011, highlights the great variety of important acquisitions made by the Department of Architecture and Design since 2005, juxtaposing, in several [Read More]
Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum’s scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas [Read More]
The Lyme Regis Museum presents Mary Anning and the Men of Science, on view now through spring 2011. Mary Anning (1799-1847) was a largely self-educated, working class woman from Lyme Regis who became the greatest [Read More]
On November 10, 1975, the 729-foot steamer Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in an infamous Lake Superior storm near Whitefish Point, Michigan with her entire crew of 29 men. The Fitzgerald’s story has become a popular [Read More]
Thanks to an innovative new partnership between the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto residents and visitors can now view some of the most significant works from [Read More]
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 has been won by David Chancellor, 49, for his portrait, Huntress with Buck, of 14 year old Josie Slaughter from Alabama on her first hunting trip to South [Read More]