DETROIT, MI (AP).- A nonprofit group is trying to restore Detroit’s status in the art world by drawing artists to an unlikely place: a century-old former bank in a neighborhood so infested with crime that some of the building’s pipes were stolen and it…
The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Anne Wilson: Local Industry
KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Anne Wilson: Local Industry May 13-August 7, 2011. This is the first public exhibition of the Local Industry Cloth, produced in 2010 by 2,100 volunteers alongside 79 experienced weavers at the Knoxv…
Keats Love Letter to Return to Keats House Following Successful City of London Corporation Bid
LONDON.- The City of London Corporation, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has bought a love letter written by the poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne at Wentworth Place (now Keats House) in 1820. The letter was bought at auction in London for
Save America’s Treasures Grant Program Announces $14.3 Million in Awards
WASHINGTON, DC.- Today, the National Park Service (NPS) and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) jointly announced the awarding of $14.3 million in federal competitive Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grants. The grants are mad…
The Morris Announces Appointment of New Curator of Education
AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art staff announce that Michelle Schulte has accepted the position as the Curator of Education. Schulte, the former associate curator of education at the Morris, is assuming the duties of David Tucker who retires on W…
Denver Museum Prepares for Next Steps in Scientific Analysis of the Ice Age Fossil Site
DENVER, CO.- After a month of frenetic activity, Denver Museum of Nature & Science scientists and volunteers have finished their initial excavation of the Ice Age fossil site discovered at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, and have returned to t…
Leonard Nimoy Presents New Series of Photographs at MASS MoCA
NORTH ADAMS, MA.- Inspired by Aristophanes’ theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus cleaved man in two and left him forever struggling to be whole again, Leonard Nimoy’s photographs re…
Leonard Nimoy Presents New Series of Photographs at MASS MoCA
NORTH ADAMS, MA.- Inspired by Aristophanes’ theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus cleaved man in two and left him forever struggling to be whole again, Leonard Nimoy’s photographs re…