SAN FRANCISCO, CA, – John E. Buchanan, Jr., Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the appointment of Julian Cox, one of the country’s leading authorities on photography as Founding Curator of [Read More]
Sam Taylor-Wood’s 2008 photographic exploration of the Yorkshire moors, Ghosts, is the latest exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. On view from October 30, 2010, through August [Read More]
The Frans Hals Museum is presenting a work by the British artist Francis Bacon flanked by two monumental paintings by Cornelis van Haarlem. What links these artists is their admiration for Michelangelo. This Italian painter, [Read More]
The Museum in downtown Kitchener announce its next major collaborative exhibition; SEARCHING FOR TOM – Tom Thomson: Man, Myth and Masterworks to open in February 2011. The exhibition, which is primarily based on the famous [Read More]
To accommodate its major construction project, Museum of the Moving Image is closed to the public. The renovated and expanded Museum will re-open in early 2011. The Museum building is listed on the National Register [Read More]
The life of Anne Frank, the graphic biography will tomorrow be published in the Netherlands, followed by publications in several other countries later this year. The biography covers the complete life story of Anne Frank [Read More]
The British Library has been awarded the ‘opening the world of knowledge’ award for Timelines: Sources from History (www.bl.uk/timeline) by the Nominet Internet Awards. The Nominet Internet Awards aim to recognise and celebrate individuals and [Read More]
Lena Liv (b. Leningrad, 1952) returned to her homeland after years in Israel and Italy, and followed, in the series of photographs exhibited here, one of its heroic tales: Moscow’s metro stations. With a bold, [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces Jewelry in July, a special weekend trunk show, hosted Friday, July 9–Sunday, July 11, 2010. Located on the Main Level in Galleries 210 and 211, The Museum Shop brings [Read More]
Part of the oldest museum in Los Angeles County has been turned into a home for the aged — and the ages. With specimens that date back 4 billion years, the Age of Mammals exhibit [Read More]
Philadelphia, PA – The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has commissioned world-renowned artist Claes Oldenburg to create a new public artwork for its Lenfest Plaza. The design consists of a 53 foot high [Read More]
One of Northern Ireland’s newest landmark buildings, the £50million McClay Library at Queen’s, was officially opened on Tuesday 6 July by one of Queen’s most famous alumni, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Speaking ahead of [Read More]
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]