September 30 is Museum Day: Free Admission at Selected Venues

Looking for things to do tomorrow, get a dose of Free Culture on Museum Day!

Fly Away Cafe: The Art Institute of Chicago

First stop – The Art Institute of Chicago, America’s answer to Paris’s famed Le Louvre.  Most known for its extensive collections of Impressionist paintings, it’s a must stop for any art lover.  With a collection of 270,000 painting, prints,...

Hit the Museums for Free on September 30th

Museums all over America are opening their doors and they're not going to be charging you for walking through them.

CHINESE CULTURAL CENTRE MUSEUM & ARCHIVES - Georgia Straight

" Museums Publish Date: 24-Aug-2006 Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives Delta Museum And Archives Japanese Canadian National Museum North Vancouver Museum And Archives Ubc Museum Of Anthropology Vancouver Maritime Museum Vancouver Museum Vancouver Police Centennial...

Centers of Unlearning

"If relics like tractors and antique toilets deserve museums, why not creationism? And why stop there? A guide to upcoming halls of wisdom."

Museum moves out, moves on

After many unstable years, officials hope the Florida International Museum's move brings financial security.

Walker Art Center official resigns

The Walker Art Center's second-in-command resigned abruptly Thursday, less than six weeks after the contemporary art museum opened a $70 million addition for which it is still raising money. Ann Bitter, the center's deputy director and chief operating officer, will depart...

Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit -- 75th Anniversary

In 1931, douring the heart of the Great Depression, Jackson Pollock in desperate need of funds to pay the rent on his Village apartment/studio took several of his paintings downstairs and set them up on the...

Taste: South Beach meets the South

MIAMI - "I knew Florida was, um, agricultural, but when you think of Florida, you don't think of the South." That's George Perez, 43, a Miami home inspector, talking. He's standing in the middle of an art gallery in Wynwood, the hip arts district that has sprung...

Astor Place Cube Missing

It was a mystery for a New York minute. On, Tuesday the Astor Place Cube went missing and neither the police nor local community leaders nor its creator, the famed sculptor Tony Rosenthal, knew where it was. The iconic 15-foot-tall, spinnable steel sculpture has stood,...

Dia Art Foundation Plans an Upscale Move - New York Times

Dia Art Foundation Plans an Upscale Move By CAROL VOGEL Published: May 9, 2005 Since the Dia Art Foundation was created in 1974, it has been something of a pioneer. More than a decade before fashionable contemporary art galleries moved into Chelsea, Dia operated a museum...

First Move: ExplorDANCE - Hip Hop Dance Korean Style

May 27: First Move: ExplorDANCE - Hip Hop Dance Korean Style at Surrey Arts Centre Theatre

Hunter College MFA Open Studios and Silent Auction

The Hunter College Masters of Fine Arts Program held its semi annual Open Studios and Silent Auction this Friday and Satruday at 450 W. 41st Street in New York City. Two great evenings of cutting edge art and...

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit (Reuters)

Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit Friday.

Artist secretly hangs works in prominent museums

From the New Zealand Herald: Many a visitor to New York’s Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that." A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by...

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