museums

Opera Under The Stars At Bayou Bend

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:02:35 -0500

Opera Vista to Present Leonard Bernstein?s Trouble in Tahiti on September 27, 2008 in Second Annual Performance in Gardens

Welcome To New Sackler Centre For Arts Education

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:51:26 -0500

Opens The V&A’s new Sackler Centre for arts education, opening on 30 September 2008, gives visitors the opportunity to learn from and work with some of the UK’s most talented designers and teachers, develop their own skills and to participate in workshops, talks and debates, festivals, conferences and courses.

Magnificence Of The Tsars

ruzik_tuzik — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:20:32 -0500

A display of rare and lavishly decorated costumes and uniforms worn by the Tsars and court officials of Imperial Russia, most of which have never been exhibited before either in Russia or abroad, will be shown for the first time at the V&A this winter as part of an exchange between the V&A and the Moscow Kremlin Museums. The exhibition will be on view from 10 December 2008 to 2 March 2009.

Smithsonian Museum Seeks “Treasures” In Washington

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:21:20 -0500

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will host a daylong program to help Washington, D.C., area residents identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away in the attics, closets and basements of their homes.

Photographs By Graciela Iturbide Takes Top Honors

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:16:31 -0500

The J. Paul Getty Museum has received a 2008 MUSE Award for Audio and Visual Tours for its bilingual audio tour for the exhibition The Goat’s Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide. Now in its 19th year, the MUSE awards competition recognizes outstanding achievement in museum media. The competition is an activity of the Media and Technology Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums (AAM).

Hirshhorn Museum Acquires Collection Of Count Giuseppe Panza

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:10:01 -0500

The Hirshhorn Museum presents an exhibition featuring 39 important artworks from the late 1960s and early 1970s that were recently acquired from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, one of the world’s foremost collectors of American and European contemporary art. Composed of works by an international roster of 16 artists, this acquisition substantially strengthens the Hirshhorn’s holdings of art from this period.

Cursed House Of Atreus Falls In Agamemnon

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:19:39 -0500

Tickets have gone on sale for this September’s upcoming production of Agamemnon in the Getty Villa’s outdoor Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. For this open-air staging, acclaimed director Stephen Wadsworth resurrects Aeschylus’ unsettling domestic drama of The House of Atreus, as told in a riveting translation by the late Robert Fagles.

Smithsonian Museum Acquires Work By Christo, Jeanne-Claude

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:14:12 -0500

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired “Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76, A Documentation Exhibition,” the definitive record of the major early work by world-renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Tyne Daly, Delroy Lindo Star In Agamemnon

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:07:50 -0500

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Tyne Daly (Gypsy, Rabbit Hole, Judging Amy) and Tony and Drama Desk Award-nominee Delroy Lindo (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Cider House Rules, Kidnapped) have been cast in the Getty’s upcoming production of Agamemnon.

Smithsonian Museum Acquires Teakettle With Political Message

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:48 -0500

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired an early 19th century miniature copper teakettle that is engraved with artwork referencing the U.S. Embargo Act of 1807. The teakettle is believed to have been manufactured in Baltimore between 1807 and 1809. Embellished with vines, leaves and a flying bird, it has a gooseneck spout, a swing handle and a lid with a brass finial. Phrases, words, letters and Masonic symbols are inscribed on the piece.

Friendship Powwow At Denver Art Museum

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:56:36 -0500

The final day to see Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is Sunday, September 7. The 40 beautiful paintings on view offer a survey of plein-air painting from early artists such as Gustave Courbet to the later French and American Impressionists who were greatly influenced by their predecessors.

NMWA Acquires Works By Ilona Keseru

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:42:47 -0500

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) recently received the donation of Black Line (1968) from Hungarian artist Ilona Keseru. Black Line expresses (in the artist’s words) “the feeling of womanhood and joie de vivre” and is filled with “all the possibilities of a woman in her 30s”—the age of Keseru at the time she created it.