INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, announced today that the IMA will open Miller House and Garden to the public in May 2011. Located in Columbus, Ind., and one of the coun…
Scottish National Portrait Gallery Invites Public to Put Themselves in the Picture
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland will this week launch a new initiative, which will give members of the public the chance to show their own favourite images alongside the national collection. From this week, the public can contribute thei…
Art Fair Tokyo Announces New Organizational Structure
TOKYO.- Since the appointment of Takahiro Kaneshima as Executive Director of ART FAIR TOKYO on June 1, 2010, the ART FAIR TOKYO Committee has been going through a process of restructuring with renewed focus being given to Tokyo’s role as a city wi…
Academy of Arts, Berlin Presents the Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Mona Hatoum
BERLIN.- The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin, presents the Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Mona Hatoum. In awarding this prize to Mona Hatoum the Academy of Arts honours her for a multifaceted body of work, in which the human body, caught betwe…
Academy of Arts, Berlin Presents the Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Mona Hatoum
BERLIN.- The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin, presents the Käthe Kollwitz Prize to Mona Hatoum. In awarding this prize to Mona Hatoum the Academy of Arts honours her for a multifaceted body of work, in which the human body, caught betwe…
Art Activists Spill Oil at Iconic British Museum in Protest at BP Sponsorship
LONDON.- Five members of the art activist group
‘Culture Beyond Oil’ today poured non-toxic black oil around the British
Museum’s world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP’s
sponsorship of
the museum. The group, inspired b…
Adam Magyar to Photograph Hundreds of People "Walk the Walk"
LONDON.- Hundreds of members of the public
to be
invited to participate in two revolutionary photographic commissions to
create
public art installations using Olympic finish line technology in London
and
Birmingham In association with Rhub…
Museums Mean Business: Merseyside Maritime Museum Hosts Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities Conference
LIVERPOOL.- Members of museums and cultural organisations from across Europe will visit Liverpool next week to recognise the importance of entrepreneurs and small businesses in Europe, including Liverpool’s own Smithdown Road. National Museums Liv…