Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grants Will Expand Educational Access and Broaden Museum Representation The Smithsonian Institution has received $50 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support three new programs: [Read More]
Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum celebrates the 100th birthday of Eugène Leroy by presenting 150 masterpieces from public and private collections from around the world. Open through 31 March 2011. Thanks to the exceptional donation made [Read More]
The Museum Folkwang presents Ideal Landscapes and Reality. 19th Century Drawings and Aquarelles, open 6.11.2010 – 16.1.2011. Apart from Expressionist graphic works and contemporary works, 19th century drawings and printed graphic works forms a third [Read More]
The Lost City Museum will host a guest lecture by Christine S. Vanpool, Assistant Professor from the University of Missouri, on Sunday November 7th 2010 at 6 p.m. VanPool will discuss how modern Puebloan potters [Read More]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces the appointment of Robert W. Lasher as the museum’s deputy director, external relations, a newly created position. Starting on November 1, 2010, Lasher will supervise a [Read More]
Speed, precision, and danger are key elements of the exhibition VantagePoint IX – Janet Biggs: Going to Extremes, on view 5 November 2010 – 29 May 2011 at the Mint Museum Uptown. From a kayaker [Read More]
The Museo del Prado presents Rubens, open 5 November 2010 to 23 January 2011. The Museo del Prado is concluding its 2010 exhibition programme with an exhibition devoted to its collection of works by Peter [Read More]
The National Museum of American Jewish History will celebrate the opening of its new national destination museum on Independence Mall with a Grand Opening Weekend, Nov. 12-14, headlined by entertainers Bette Midler and Jerry Seinfeld [Read More]
The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the recipients of its 2010 Production Program Grants, with funds totaling up to 300,000 USD to be awarded toward the realization of proposed projects. The recipients, selected by a jury [Read More]
The Bradman Museum will be closed from Monday 8 November, reopening on Monday 29 November. The museum is closed for renovations due to the opening of The International Cricket Hall of Fame. The Bradman Museum [Read More]
The Farnsworth Art Museum presents an exhibition of work by Louise Nevelson, open though December 31, 2010. Louise Nevelson is rightly recognized as one of America’s most important sculptors of the twentieth century and one [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art and Cinecittà Luce, Rome, present the cinematic oeuvre of Bernardo Bertolucci, with all new prints, December 15, 2010, through January 12, 2011. One of the most revered living masters of [Read More]
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced that Suzanne Archer is the winner of the 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing for her work Derangement. Suzanne Archer was awarded $25,000 for winning Australia’s most [Read More]
Adelson Galleries will host an auction of museum quality art works in support of the Farnsworth Art Museum’s campaign for the Andrew Wyeth Memorial Endowment. The works to be sold have been generously donated by [Read More]
The 1960s Mini Coopers as used in The Italian Job have temporarily traded places with the Lord Mayor’s state coach in the Museum of London’s City gallery. Three Minis used by Paramount Pictures to promote [Read More]
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present salt 2: Sophie Whettnall, the second in the museum’s new series of exhibitions showcasing innovative art from around the [Read More]
The Museum of Flight in Seattle has named Douglas R. King as president and chief executive officer, succeeding Interim President Michael Hallman, who will return to his previous role as vice chairman of the museum’s [Read More]
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents The Glory of the Painted Page Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection, open November 6, 2010-February 27, 2011. The history of the book forms one of the chief categories [Read More]