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Meet the winners of the InsideOutUSA photo contest (John S and James L Knight Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jun 2016
... photo contest, highlighting the national InsideOut program that takes high-quality replicas of art in museums' collections and brings them to neighborhoods ... Thursday, the participating museums in the Knight-funded program - the Akron Art Museum,Detroit Institute of Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pérez Art Museum Miami - announced the winners....

The Western Australian Museum shuts down today for four years

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 Jun 2016
The WA Museum in Northbridge will shut its doors tonight and won't open them again for four years ... Culture and Arts Minister John Day said the new museum would represent WA for generations to come. "Today is bittersweet as we say farewell to the existing museum that many of us have grown up with, ......

Museum of Art hosts frolicking good time

Edit Toledo Blade 19 Jun 2016
Ben Grazzini, Toledo, carries his daughter Josephine, 1, as they walk down Monroe Street during the summer block party at the Toledo Museum of Art Saturday. Thousands of revelers joined the fun at the annual event, which featured live entertainment, the TMA-mazing Race Museum Scavenger Hunt, hands-on art activities, metalworking demonstrations, and glassblowing demonstrations ... ....

The mind of a genius: Science Museum Oklahoma to open exhibit on Leonardo da Vinci

Edit The Oklahoman 19 Jun 2016
“Da Vinci — The Genius,” an exhibit displaying and dissecting the work of Leonardo da Vinci, will open Friday at Science Museum Oklahoma, allowing visitors to step into the mind of one of the world's most notable artists and engineers. Da Vinci is an obvious choice for the museum, said Clint Stone, its director of education and training ... 8, featuring an expansive array of da Vinci's inventions, art and research ... It's art....

In the shadows

Edit Indian Express 19 Jun 2016
Victoria and Albert Museum/© The Estate of Bhupen Khakhar). It was endearing to see the jubilant art world at Tate Modern in London for the opening reception of Indian artist Bhupen Khakhar’s international retrospective on May 31, 2016 ... But he was drawn to the arts ... Roobina Karode is the director of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, which is associated with the Bhupen Khakar retrospective as a co-sponsor and lender of works to the exhibition....

Oklahoma City Museum of Art opens 'Matisse in His Time'

Edit The Oklahoman 19 Jun 2016
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, on Saturday marked the public opening of “Matisse in His Time ... The museum is ......

An industrial-scale loot

Edit DNA India 19 Jun 2016
Once outside, these artefacts thrive on global networks between middlemen and art dealers across continents, finding place at reputed art auctions, in museums and in private collections ... The government of Australia, informs Sundaresan, has ordered a review of the 1,500 pieces of Indian art in various museum collections to check for skullduggery ... News & views from the world of art....

Things they left behind

Edit Indian Express 19 Jun 2016
While a handful private initiatives are interested in archival material — for instance, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, and the Swaraj Art Archives headed by Vijay Kumar Aggarwal — they don’t compare with the institutions in the West that have the resources and more importantly, the regard for such data....

Gurgaon to get world's largest camera museum, August launch on cards

Edit The Times of India 19 Jun 2016
Now their work, and the fascinating history of their art, is about to get an expansive and worthy tribute. Gurgaon will soon boast what is likely to be the largest museum in the world devoted to the history of the camera, the apparatus whose increasing ubiquity has allowed generations to record moments for posterity ... "I want to create an institution, a physical space that should also be state-of-the-art," he says....

Barbara Goodbody: 30 Years of Photography (University of Southern Maine)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Southern Maine). USM Libraries and Maine Museum of Photographic Arts are pleased to present. Barbara Goodbody. 30 Years of Photography ... Cash bar ... All proceeds benefit US based Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR)....

Installation art shows creative ways to look at things

Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 19 Jun 2016
For “Factory Installed,” the latest exhibit to open at the Mattress Factory, an installation-art museum on the North Side, a total of eight artists were ... ....

Summer is here. Be mindful of the heat.

Edit my SA 19 Jun 2016
The mercury is flirting with triple digits, and the heat index is even higher. Make sure to drink lots of water, and wear sunscreen and hats. Catch some fireflies at Hardberger Park during sunset, splash at a city pool or local swimming hole, cruise the galleries of our fabulous art museums and savor those long, long days ... ....

Kurt Cobain Touring Art Show In The Works

Edit Inquisitr 19 Jun 2016
Touring art exhibition planned of Kurt Cobain’s work https.//t.co/XcIYA6zogc pic.twitter.com/2pCsfm7mP2 ... Robert Hunter, Kurt Cobain’s high school art teacher, gave an interview to Artspan, revealing the future rock star was enrolled in basic and commercial art classes in his sophomore and junior years at Aberdeen High School, but that some of that work can still be seen at the EMP Museum in Seattle ... music and art....
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