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The Scholastic Art Showcase gives Colorado’s top young artists the chance to inspire other students across the state. DENVER — The Denver Art Museum (DAM) houses works of art created by some of the most famous artists in history. Now it also exhibits paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists you …

Lewiston and Auburn Public Libraries plan to co-host the Museum Of Bad Art with a virtual “Tough Times – From Have a Bad Day to Dystopian Apocalypse” program. This free public broadcast will take place on Zoom from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 21. In this presentation, …

Michael Anderson was out of town on March 16, 2002, when the The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has opened its new home downtown to the public. But as the CEO of the museumhe knows how monumental this move was. “It was completely transformative. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art …

While the past two years of virtual and blended learning have been unusual and empowering for students across the country, Carol Hockett, Hinsta Family Director of School and Family Programs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in India Cornell University, was determined to expand the classroom experience for …

Belinda Weiss de Campbell is the new director of the William McKinley Birthplace Museum in Niles. She previously worked for the Arms Family Museum in Youngstown Weiss is a history buff and teaches at Kent State University, Campbell resident Belinda Weiss, who spent many years at …

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Dr. Keith Woods likes to create things. On the wall of his studio, more than 20 plaques shine with a certification that the United States patent office recognizes the originality of the chemicals he synthesized to fight cancer. However, there will be no more plates to …

The 21c Museum Hotel Chicago has announced the launch of its new on-site exhibit, Pop Stars! Popular culture and contemporary art, whose opening is scheduled for Monday, March 21. The multimedia exhibition illuminates the intersection of fame, commerce, technology and media, including notable works by Nick Cave, Brendan Fernandes, Titus …

By Bridgette M. Redman Pasadena Weekly Contributing Writer NOTeon lights have stories to tell, stories that can be both physical and historical. The stories of California’s retired neon signs have inspired a site-specific immersive dance concert, “In Liquid Light,” to be performed Thursday, March 3 through Sunday, March 6 at …

BALTIMORE, (WJZ) — The Baltimore Museum of Art will present a new exhibition that shares works selected by the institution’s security guards. The new exhibition, titled “Guarding the Art“, was entirely organized by the 17 members of the museum’s security team. It will be open to the public on Sunday …

CHICAGO (WLS) — Every room is meticulously planned. “I plan, at least in my mind, what the final piece will look like before I even lay the first brick,” said brick artist Nathan Sawaya. Brick after brick is glued together to create new interpretations of the world’s most famous art …

It’s not every day that European Renaissance artwork arrives at State College. Until May 8, the Palmer Museum of Art will display a collection of works by German printmaker Albrecht Dürer in its second-floor special exhibitions gallery. “Engraving in the Age of Dürer” features some of the artist’s most influential …

Museums contain a lot of knowledge and people visit them to learn. In most cases, museums serve as storage or carriers of knowledge from the past. In this case, people can learn and understand what was there and what it meant. Other museums will also contain the knowledge of the …

In 2016, the Longmont Museum highlighted the intricate and eye-catching work of international contemporary origami artists with the exhibition “Above The Fold” – curated by Los Angeles-based Japanese art historian Meher McArthur. The show, which featured 60 hand-folded koi fish, proved to be a favorite among visitors. “This exhibit was …

Olayami Dabls, a Detroit artist and muralist who has transformed two city blocks with his vibrant pearl museum that attracts visitors from around the world, has been named the 2022 Kresge Distinguished Artist, the foundation announced Thursday morning. Dabls, 73, will receive $50,000 to use as he sees fit. He …

STATEN ISLAND, NY – An unusual display of antique prints at the National Lighthouse Museum is now on display at St. George’s waterfront. A program curated by Danielle Mann features landmarks of Britain, past and present, inspired by Her Royal Highness Princess Royal Anne. The dignitary is the honorary chair …

Works of art and other cultural heritage items from Yale’s renowned collections tend to travel. The university’s museums and libraries frequently loan objects to each other, as well as to institutions across the country and abroad, for display in public exhibitions. The journeys of these pieces can generate feedback in …

Click to enlarge Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi, Italy by John Ferguson Weir, 1902, oil on canvas. Iit looks like something that only extremely art-loving locals know, but Spokane has a free art museum. Located on the shore of Lake Arthur, on the edge of campus, Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art …

Hu Heping (left), Chinese Minister of Culture and Tourism, and Shen Haixiong, Chairman of China Media Group, attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition in Beijing, China on January 7, 2021. / CMG Hu Heping (left), Chinese Minister of Culture and Tourism, and Shen Haixiong, Chairman of China Media Group, …

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum will host the public preview of its spring 2022 exhibit The Cultivators: Highlights from Kinsey’s African American Art and History Collection on Saturday, January 15, 2022, from noon to 5 pm h. The opening celebration will include tours of exhibitions, live outdoor music, food …

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) – If your New Years resolution was to get crafty or learn something new, the Tennessee State Museum is ready to help. This month, the museum is launching a workshop series with courses in jewelry making, engraving and rug hooking. Workshops will be led by leading artists …

ISTANBUL The Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) of the University of Sabancı hosts the exhibition “The Extraordinary World of the Prince: Abdülmecid Efendi” on the life and art of Abdülmecid Efendi, the last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire who had a lasting effect on Turkish art history. Besides his patronage to …

Owensboro-Daviess County Convention and Visitors Bureau Partners with Owensboro Art Museum to Promote Owensboro Tour of 21 Public Works of Art as “One of the Best in the Midwest” . “This campaign gives us the opportunity to reintroduce Owensboro’s thriving public art scene to both our community and to out-of-town …

Clarksville, Tennessee – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block with great gallery spaces filled with art, science and history. Some of the events in December at the Museum are Familiar: Celebrating Our Korean Culture, The Infirmary, …

Funding Arts Broward (FAB), a non-profit organization committed to the preservation and cultivation of the arts in Broward County, will present its fifth annual special event “Black & White: A Night At The Museum” on Monday January 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. pm This elegant black-and-white themed cocktail …

NEW BEDFORD – New Bedford Art Museum / Works of Art! (NBAM) will virtually recognize those who truly have an impact on the arts community with the Patrons of the Arts Award on Friday, December 31. In a region so populated by artists and creators, the Art Museum considers it …

ohOn the second floor of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, not far from Picasso’s immense and still livid Guernica, is a much smaller but equally eloquent testimony to the civilian cost of the Spanish Civil War. Robert Capa’s photograph of rue Peironcely n ° 10 in Madrid’s working-class neighborhood …

“It’s a transformational gift,” said Nancy Netzer, inaugural director of Robert L. and Judith T. Winston of the McMullen Museum. “We are a small museum and these works have been in private hands for a long time. They were not shown to the public, the students did not work on …

As a child, Palo Altan Jane Woodward dreamed of living in a museum. She spent her summers visiting her grandmother in Manhattan and loved to fantasize about what it would be like to live in the Metropolitan Museum, like the characters in her favorite book, “From the Mixed-Up Files of …

DENVER (AP) – British troops in 1897 staged a violent retaliatory raid on the kingdom of Benin, in what is now southern Nigeria, looting and torching the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile . The British confiscated all of the royal treasures of their colonial subjects, …

LUBBOCK, Texas (Press release) – Down in the Dirt: Graphic Art by Terry Allen is now on display at the Museum of Texas Tech University. The exhibit features over 70 original works of art by Lubbock-raised visual artist and musician Terry Allen. The exhibition will be open until March 2022. …

community, Every Holi and Diwali, Aruna Gandhi has a crowd in her kitchen – but she was not used to the size of the audience she received on Saturday. Ms. Gandhi was the first of five border cooks to share a recipe close to her heart and culture for the …

New York Jewish Week via JTA – Edmund de Waal believes objects, like families, are diasporic. They start in one place and end in another, accumulating stories. A master ceramist who exhibits his work internationally, de Waal is the author of the award-winning 2010 bestseller “The Amber-Eyed Hare: A Hidden …

Evidence lockers at the Manhattan district attorney’s office often contain an array of items that were part of the crimes he is prosecuting. Blunt instruments. Bags of heroin. Bundles of banknotes. The kind of stuff that shouldn’t be given up, but no one would have a heart attack if you …

Andy Warhol’s brand new exhibit, Warhol’s West, is set to debut at the James Museum in downtown St. Petersburg in October. West Warhol explores pop artist Andy Warhol’s fascination with the American West. The exhibit features a wide array of Western imagery and more of Warhol, including his latest big …

A brightly colored portrait of a woman playing the lute greeted guests at the Frick Museum, where onlookers gathered in the gallery’s small entrance to read the plaque identifying Kate Elizabeth Bunce. “Melody (Music). “ Organized by the American Federation of the Arts, the art exhibition Victorian radicals debuted on …

Masone Street 121, FontanellatoEmilia Romagna, Italy closed: Tuesdays January 1 and December 25 (reservation recommended) Type of museum: Art The Labirinto della Masone (Manor Maze) in Fontanellato, a small town near the city of Parma in northern Italy, is a private museum that also includes the largest maze in the …

Holiday events at Carnegie Art Museum include the return of two visitor favorites, as well as activities and events presented for the first time this year. The Neapolitan presepio, first presented in 1957, will have a new home this year in the Scaife Galleries, while the Carnegie Trees, commemorating 60 …

Cherif Bey spent his childhood thinking that all museums combined art and natural history, as they do in Carnegie Art and Natural History Museums. While he may have learned this was not true, his own ceramic and glass artwork is influenced by dinosaur bones and the colors of birds. The …

A national honor is about to be bestowed on one of Akwesasne’s leading basket makers. On October 15, 2021, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery announced the acquisition of Sheila Kanieson Ransom’s exquisite black ash and sweetgrass basket commemorating the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native …

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich has announced the appointment of Margarita Karasoulas as Art Curator. Karasoulas has been Assistant Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum since 2017. Earlier in her career, she was at the Bruce Museum as Zvi Grunberg’s Resident Intern in 2012-13 and returned in 2016 …

Cambodia has started pressuring the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan to document how it acquired dozens of Khmer Empire antiques that Cambodian officials say were looted during decades of war and of turmoil in the country. Although Cambodia has been pushing the Met and other museums in recent years …

The creator of “The starry Night, “Sunflowers, “IrisAnd many more paintings will take center stage this fall at two very different art exhibitions in Columbus. Vincent Van Gogh, the brilliant but tortured post-impressionist painter, will be celebrated with his contemporary artists in “Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and his Sources, …

A burglar confessed to a shattering raid on the Newmarket Horseracing Museum that saw thieves run away with the Ascot gold vase and the 1907 Chesterfield Cup. James Sheen, 37, also pleaded guilty to planning explosions and raids on ATMs across the Home Counties. They included robberies targeting cash machines …

Rising within sight of Broadway, just off Civic Center Park and waiting for visitors, the Martin Building of the Denver Museum of Art has been under renovation since 2017. This month, the museum will rediscover much of its collection and will offer new attractions and exhibits when it reopens to …

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla., Oct.15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – (Oct. 15, 2021) – The Palm Beaches, Fla. Is an art lover’s paradise. Home to a wide variety of artistic adventures – especially world-class art and history museums – the destination offers experiences for visitors of all ages. The Palm Beach …

Frederick Oakes Sylvester, American, 1869-1915; “Mississippi to Elsah ”, 1903; oil on canvas; 30 1/8 x 45 1/16 inches; Art museum and Archeology, University of Missouri, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Schriever 2021.103; Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri — Colombia Jenna carlie By Maggie Peters | …

On Wednesday, October 13, the Cayuga Museum of History and Art officially celebrated its 85th anniversary, the oldest operating museum in Auburn. Many of Auburn’s most prominent families came together to found the museum as a local exhibition and meeting space for the community to create and enjoy the arts. …

Ringling’s legacy lives on at the art museum Fine art and circus blend together on a 66-acre arboretum at the Ringling Museum of Art. SARASOTA, Florida – With an 18th-century theater, two museums, a Venetian Gothic mansion, and a world-class art collection set on a 66-acre arboretum, the Ringling Art …

‘Coloring’, the UK Art Museum’s latest installation, contains several works of art highlighting color, and museum curators hope the exhibit will revitalize the experience of viewing art in person. The arrangement is made up of paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures by artists of various traditions and eras. While much of …

Carl Rungius (United States, born Germany, 1869–1959). Old Man of the Mountains, 1930. Oil on canvas. 34 x 39 inches. JKM® collection. National Museum of Animal Art. Robert McCauley (United States, born 1946). The Only West Left is the One in Your Head, 2014. Oil on canvas on panel. 24 …

MONSON – The Monson Arts Council is hosting a public reception and dedication for its debut from the Monson Museum of Art collection on October 23-24 between noon and 5 p.m. The reception celebrates 56 new works of art from the collection, which are on display at the House of …

A USArt team is preparing a stained glass window at the LCMS International Center for a move to the Saint Louis Art Museum. The window, a representation of St. Mark’s, will be on display at the museum until January 9, 2022. (LCMS / Erik M. Lunsford) By Cheryl Magness On …

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by artist Angela Fraleigh, a new installation inspired by the museum’s history and collections. Shards of a secret sky will be visible from October 9 to December 11, 2021. In Fraleigh’s vibrant and large-scale …

By Élisabeth Osayande You may no longer need to visit the Yemisi Shyllon Art Museum at Pan Atlantic University, YSMA-PAU to experience the beauty of creativity in the forms of painting, sculpture and other artefacts. Arts and crafts. Thanks to the partnership between the Yemisi Shyllon Art Museum at Pan …