Museums
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has appointed Connie Butler as chief curator. In her new role, Butler, who recently resigned from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, will be in charge of developing and organizing exhibitions, building the Hammer’s...
After debuting at the Barbican during Frieze London last year, rAndom International’s “Rain Room” (2012) arrived at MoMA last week in time for Frieze New York. Now through July 28, thanks to the miracle of motion sensor technology, visitors can stroll...
Twelve sculptures by Henry Moore have been shipped to Holland to inaugurate the newly reopened Rijksmuseum’s Gardens next month. The full list of works being transported has been revealed by the Henry Moore Foundation, with many of the pieces having...
Michael Landy has a knack for the spectacular. For his best-known performance piece, Break Down (2001), the artist destroyed all his worldly possessions, including his passport, in a former store on Oxford Street. In 2010, he set up a huge Art Bin at the...
Where will she stop? Hannah Barry, the contemporary art gallerist who put the inner London neighbourhood of Peckham on the capital’s art map — and before she hit her 30th birthday — is spearheading a bid to turn an underused multi-storey car park on Rye Lane...
Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies.The still-...
Elvis Presley's rhinestone cape and diamond and sapphire studded belt are part of two new exhibits at the King of Rock and Roll's Memphis home, Graceland. Some of the memorabilia is from world's first televised satellite concert "Aloha from Hawaii...
Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum exhibits more than 200 works by Salvador Dali in one of the largest retrospectives on the Spanish surrealist artist.The show is organized into 11 sections in chronological order and includes some of his most famous works...
After a seven-month renovation, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam reopened its doors to the public with an exhibit "Van Gogh at Work".It includes an extended collection of never-shown personal objects from the Dutch artists tortured life.Eager visitors...
WHAT: “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848 – 1900”WHEN: February 17 – May 19WHERE: The National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.WHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: The National Gallery of Art is currently showing the...
