The Autry National Center announce the acquisition of “The King of the Cowboys,” Roy Rogers’s first guitar. This acquisition is made possible by Lora and Bob Sandroni, with additional support provided by Stuart Simon and [Read More]
NEW YORK – Goran Paskaljevic’s newest film, Honeymoons (2009), will have a weeklong run at the Museum of Modern Art, from September 9 through 15, 2010. Honeymoons, the first Albanian-Serbian film co-production, follows two couples, [Read More]
Los Angeles, CA – The Board of Trustees of the Autry National Center announced today the appointment of Daniel M. Finley as the institution’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Finley will succeed John [Read More]
Artist/actor Leonard Nimoy exhibits his recent photographic series that explores the lost or hidden self, pen through Jan 2, 2011 at at MASS MoCA. Inspired by Aristophanes’ theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with [Read More]
The Frederick Douglass Honor Society of Easton, MD and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) will host Frederick Douglass Day from 10am to 4pm on October 23, 2010 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in [Read More]
A project to thaw, open and examine a crate of what is believed to contain whisky from Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 British Antarctic (Nimrod) Expedition has started at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. The Nimrod expedition made [Read More]
A manuscript handwritten by Captain Robert Falcon Scott during the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–13 and recently discovered in the warehouse of a London bookseller has been acquired by Canterbury Museum. The 11 page manuscript was [Read More]
A Major Exhibition of Paintings 18 September 2010 – 23 January 2011 This autumn, for the first time, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the recently restored work A Finger on her Cheek by Kees [Read More]
In conjunction with a city-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the Arkansas Arts Center will present the exhibition A Century of Revolution: Mexican Art since 1910 September 1 – November 21, [Read More]
LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Arkansas Arts Center announces a $100,000 gift from The Trinity Foundation of Pine Bluff. The gift was presented to assist the Arts Center in continuing its mission of bringing arts [Read More]
Exhibition brings together rare, never-before exhibited art works and creates a public forum for clarifying misconceptions resulting from the popular Twilight books and films SEATTLE – Organized in conjunction with the Quileute Nation – the [Read More]
HYDE PARK, NY – To mark the historic 75th anniversary of the most far reaching social program in American history — Social Security — the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will present a [Read More]
Exhibition Includes the World Premiere of Hammer’s Newest Film, Generations, as well as Her Groundbreaking Experimental Short Films and Documentaries NEW YORK, – A retrospective of works by experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (American, b. 1939) [Read More]
National Gallery Of Art, The Museum Of Modern Art And Turner Classic Movies Join In Celebration The Museum of Modern Art presents The March of Time, a 10-day exhibition of the propaganda-flavored “newsreels” that were [Read More]
The opportunity to buy an affordable boat and support a good cause will be at the 13th annual Boat Auction held on Saturday, September 4 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels. [Read More]
The Nevada Museum of Art presents Fletcher Benton: The Artist’s Studio, open August 14, 2010 – October 17, 2010, exploring the unique attitudes and methods that Benton, a world-renowned kinetic and constructivist sculptor, applies to [Read More]
This presentation, open August 14–October 17, 2010, spotlights Abdi Farah, the winner of Work of Art, a recently concluded creative competition among contemporary artists from across the United States for a cash prize and this [Read More]
Portland, Maine – This winter, the Portland Museum of Art will feature the first major survey of paintings by contemporary artist Rackstraw Downes. Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008, on view December 16, 2010 through March [Read More]