CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Tozzer Library present a new exhibition, Native Life in the Americas: Artists’ Views. The exhibition opens today, May 4, 2011, in Tozzer Library and will remain on view through Feb…
Native Life in the Americas: Artists’ Views at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Tozzer Library present a new exhibition, Native Life in the Americas: Artists’ Views. The exhibition opens today, May 4, 2011, in Tozzer Library and will remain on view through Februa…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Celebrates 150th Anniversary with Exhibition
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- On January 8, 2011, The The MIT Museum opens the new Thomas Peterson ’57 Gallery with a fascinating exhibition highlighting 150 years of the rich history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As MIT enters this anniversary …
New Book on The Moche of Ancient Peru in the Peabody Museum Collection Series
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- In the coastal lowlands of northern Peru, the Moche archaeological culture flourished from about A.D. 100 to 800. Moche culture is known for its vividly painted and realistically modeled ceramics. A new volume in the award-winning Peabo…
Harvard Art Museums Announce Traveling Exhibitions of Works by Lyonel Feininger
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums present two traveling exhibitions devoted to underexplored aspects of the work of Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), one of the major figures of European modernism. Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from…
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Says the Sun will Wake Up
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Sky viewers might get to enjoy some spectacular Northern Lights, or aurorae, tomorrow. After a long slumber, the Sun is waking up. Early Sunday morning, the Sun’s surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma (ionized atoms) into interplan…
Lynette Roth Appointed as Harvard Art Museums’ Associate Curator
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disci…
MIT Museum’s Polaroid Exhibit to Feature Exclusive Lady Gaga Polaroid Photograph
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Polaroid today gathered at the MIT Museum to celebrate the brand’s rich 73-year history and bright future. Polaroid presented an exclusive photo of Lady Gaga, Polaroid’s Creative Director, to the MIT Museum that will become a part of th…