Community Provides Funding to Give Works a Permanent Home at the Museum Denver, Colo. – Spurred by the enthusiastic response of the Denver community, and building on its commitment to expand its collection with new [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the July 11, 2010 closing of Currents 104: Bruce Yonemoto. Inspired by the ways in which visual culture mediates our understanding of history, politics and race, Yonemoto explores two [Read More]
Charleston, SC – The Gibbes Museum of Art will present two new exhibitions from September 3 through December 5, 2010. Face Lift, organized by the Gibbes and on view in the Main Gallery, offers a [Read More]
As part of its 90th Anniversary Celebration, The Heckscher Museum of Art is presenting its inaugural Long Island Biennial. Open July 31 – September 26, 2010. This juried exhibition features 45 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints [Read More]
The Nasher Sculpture Center brings art world speakers for conversations or lectures about sculptural themes. Learn about the ever-expanding definition of sculpture and the thought-process behind some of today’s most innovative contemporary artwork, architecture and [Read More]
The National Portrait Gallery is appealing for support to acquire William Hoare’s compelling and moving portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1733), thus saving from export Britain’s earliest known portrait of a black African Muslim and [Read More]
Kansas City, – Art lovers have a rare and limited opportunity to view a scroll considered a seminal work in the history of Chinese painting, Illustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff. [Read More]
Exhibition presents icons of modern design from the Smart Museum’s collection The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents masterworks from its collection of modern design in the special exhibition Mid-Century: “Good Design” in [Read More]
Los Angeles—The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner’s masterpiece painting Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino (1838-39). The auction took place at Sotheby’s in London [Read More]
Harrisburg – The State Museum of Pennsylvania has been nationally recognized for its exhibit featuring the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” The exhibit, “A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office [Read More]
Target Provides Families With Free Admission to More Than 80 Museums, Galleries and Art Institutions in 30 Cities MILWAUKEE – As part of its long-standing commitment to inspiring parents and caring adults to nurture a [Read More]
On Saturday, July 31, from 11 am – 2 pm, the Museum of American Finance will host a “Kids Club” event with activities and programs for families with children ages 7 and up. Tickets cost [Read More]
On 17th July the museum will be participating in Children’s Art Day by offering children from ages 3 and above the opportunity to discover their artistic skills through a series of art workshops. These 4 [Read More]
When the National Law Enforcement Museum opens in Washington, DC, in 2013, it will house one of the most extensive collections of objects related to the life and work of long-time FBI Director J. Edgar [Read More]
Museum of London Archaeology has resumed excavations on the site of Shakespeare’s first purpose-built theatre. The Tower Theatre Company is set to build a new theatre where the infamous Elizabethan playhouse stood in the late [Read More]
The Paintings (with Us in the Nature) by Gilbert & George is on display through 21.11.2010, in the large exhibition space in the Quist wing. This unusual “Sculpture” from 1971 consists of 6 huge painted [Read More]
The China Maritime Museum has opened in Shanghai. The 500-million-yuan museum (US$73.8 million) covers three floors and 46,434 square meters, and has an outdoor display area. From the outside it appears like an abstract ship [Read More]
Exhibition travels from Paris to the Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem. Open through August, 31, 2010. A journey to the unknown world at the great depths of the ocean floor, home to creatures unlike any you’ve [Read More]