The Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, opens at the Natural History Museum, London 22 October 2010 – 11 March 2011, 10.00 – 17.50 daily. About the competition Now in its 46th year, [Read More]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has just announced that it has awarded the Museum £725,000 for the year 2010-11, from its competitive ‘core funding’ stream for university museums. The award will continue for [Read More]
From October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition New Work: R. H. Quaytman. Organized by Apsara DiQuinzio, SFMOMA assistant curator of painting and [Read More]
The National Museum of Women in the Arts announces Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, the first major retrospective surveying Jones’ diverse subjects and styles, on view October 9, 2010, through January 9, [Read More]
The nation’s oldest existing Civil War memorial arrived at its new home Wednesday, the Frazier International History Museum. Known as the “Bloedner Monument,” the 3,500-pound limestone memorial is of exceptional national and historical significance, especially [Read More]
Portland, Maine – On Saturday, September 11 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., the Portland Museum of Art’s front patio will be the launch site for artist Andrea Zittel’s new project, The Group Formerly Known [Read More]
San Francisco, CA – The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents an exhibition of rarely seen Old Master paintings entitled Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker. Reclaimed reveals the extraordinary legacy of Jacques Goudstikker, a [Read More]
Pasadena, CA – The Norton Simon Museum announce the rare loan of Raphael’s The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. On view November 5, 2010–January 24, 2011. [Read More]
Following a successful regional trial in Sheffield, the British Library is launching an interactive survey, UK SoundMap, to cover the whole of the United Kingdom. The survey will map and preserve the sounds of the [Read More]
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion open through December 31, 2010. The purpose of Tibetan Portrait is to heighten visitor’s awarenss of Tibet, a mountainous region of [Read More]
Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices, open 12 November 2010 – 3 April 2011 is the first ever exhibition exploring the English language from Anglo-Saxon runes to modern day rap. Driven by developments in religion, [Read More]
The Powerhouse Museum presents a new exhibition, open 11 September – 28 November 2010, celebrating the history, music, performance and creativity of one of the world’s greatest Rock’n’Roll bands, AC/DC. Featuring original material never before [Read More]
The National Gallery of Australia unveiled a major new acquisition for the national art collection, Within without, a monumental ‘Skyspace’ installation by renowned American artist James Turrell. The only work of its kind in Australia, [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major international loan exhibition devoted to the art of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)—one of the most dynamic and culturally rich periods in Chinese history—beginning September 28. Bringing [Read More]
Seventh Highest Exhibition Attendance on Record at the Met New York – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that the landmark exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art drew 703,256 visitors during its [Read More]
KUALA LUMPUR – The National Museum will organise a Snake Exhibition, showing 100 venomous and non-venomous snakes, for one month beginning Sept 4. Its director-general, Datuk Ibrahim Ismail said the exhibition would be held in [Read More]
The Milwaukee Art Museum presents ‘Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware’ open September 2, 2010–January 17, 2011. Slipware, sculptural bottles, faience, and creamware are all part of the rich artistic legacy of North [Read More]
Exhibition combines majestic sixth-century Chinese Buddhist sculptures with digital components to reconstruct and contextualize damaged cave temples The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery present Echoes [Read More]