MONTEREY, CA.- The Monterey Museum of Art is the exclusive U.S. West Coast venue for Ansel Adams: Portrait of America, through October 3, 2010 at the Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada, located at 720 Via Mirada, Monterey, California. In 1978, Ansel Adam…
Peabody Essex Museum to Host Art Museum Libraries Symposium
SALEM, MA.- Libraries, archives, and museums face similar challenges. Libraries and archives affiliated with art museums have a second layer of concerns to consider in determining how they best relate to their parent institution. The Peabody Essex Muse…
New Zealand’s Canterbury Museum Thaws 100-Year-Old Scotch
WELLINGTON (AP).- A crate of Scotch whisky that has been frozen in Antarctic ice for more than a century is being slowly thawed by New Zealand museum officials — for analysis, not to be tasted. The crate of whisky was recovered earlier this year &…
Everson Announces Herman Miller Exhibition
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art announced that long awaited exhibition Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller will open to the public on Saturday, August 14, 2010. The exhibition will remain on view through October 17, 2010. The interpretive…
Contemporary Cuban Art Opens at the Katonah Museum of Art
KATONAH, NY.- Very few of us have had the opportunity to experience the rich culture of Cuba by visiting the island nation. The Katonah Museum of Art will bring some of that culture to us when it opens Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the …
Outdoor Installation of Over 100 Terra Cotta Fish at Fuller Craft Museum
BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum presents Migration, an installation by S. Dartmouth, Massachusetts-based painter and ceramic artist Nancy Train Smith, on view through Oct. 31, 2010 in the courtyard moat on the bucolic grounds of the Museum. Consisti…
Iowa Museum Aquarium Exhibit Highlights Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
DES MOINES (AP).- A new exhibit at an aquarium in Iowa that had intended to showcase the beauty of the Gulf of Mexico will instead be void of life to underline the environmental impact of a massive oil spill in the ocean basin. The 40,000-gallon aquari…
Iowa Museum Aquarium Exhibit Highlights Oil Spill
DES MOINES (AP).- A new exhibit at an aquarium in Iowa that had intended to showcase the beauty of the Gulf of Mexico will instead be void of life to underline the environmental impact of a massive oil spill in the ocean basin. The 40,000-gallon aquari…
Former Moderna Museet Director Lars Nittve to Head Museum Plus in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WCKDA) today announced that Mr Lars Nittve, a renowned museum director and curator with years of experience heading world-class facilities such as London’s Tate Gallery of Modern Art and St…
AGO Appoints Elizabeth Smith As New Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs
TORONTO.- After a five-month global search, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has hired Elizabeth Smith as its new Executive Director of Curatorial Affairs. Formerly the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MC…