...exhibit booths Thursday in search of pieces to add to their Latin American collections. The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston , Britain 's Tate Modern museum, the Harvard Art Museum, the Latin American Art Museum in Buenos Aires (MALBA) and...

In this article: New York, Tate Modern, Latin America, London, and Buenos Aires

...of Modern Art is offering an alternative tonight at 7 in "O'er the Land" from Chicago filmmaker and artist Deborah Stratman. According to SFMOMA , Stratman 's "epic film channels the dark side of the American psyche, presenting a savagely...

In this article: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nazim Hikmet, Asian Art Museum, Bangalore, San Francisco, and Islam

WASHINGTON -- Two key instruments from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian 's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May. Astronauts brought...

In this article: Costar, NASA, Washington, Hubble Space Telescope, and Smithsonian

...with Water's Art Gallery and from 1982-1994 was director of museum programs at the National Endowment for the Arts. He is now at the Smithsonian Institution working with the National Gallery of Art. He taught at Georgetown University in the...

In this article: New York University, Harvard University, Georgetown University, Library of Congress, U.S. Army, and National Endowment for the Arts

...City Council. The design work has been placed in the hands of the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, whose work includes Beijing 's "Bird's Nest" stadium, the Tate Modern and the Allianz Arena , home of Bayern Munich football club.

In this article: Herzog and de Meuron, London, Investec, Marylebone Cricket Club, Bayern Munich, Westminster City Council, Tate Modern, and Allianz Arena

...soap which puts more light on black magic, superstition and spirits has proved it s self to be special. Shree had been nominations for Guinness World Records as the Longest miracle and supernatural thriller in the television industry because...

In this article: Guinness World Records and Zee TV

...to make a decision in the next few weeks on whether to designate the complex, built in 1979, as a listed building on the same level as the Tate Britain gallery in London. But, far from welcoming the compliment, the site's owners have...

In this article: Milton Keynes, Tate Britain, London, Twentieth Century Society, and JD Sports

...parade, or at least ever since the Colonial marches of the military units, and some annual marches have lasted for decades. From the Smithsonian we learn that Santa's involvement in parades dates back to around 1909, when S.B. Call, a toy...

In this article: Smithsonian, Macy's, Wanamaker's, National Museum of American History, Philadelphia, Christmas season, and Thanksgiving

Click photo to enlarge NASA said preliminary data from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission successfully uncovered water during the Oct. 9, 2009 impacts into the permanently shadowed...

In this article: NASA, Sodium, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Methane, Apollo 11, University of Colorado, and Carbon dioxide

...to the first freshness of Hockney 's vision. It represents a vibrant start for this new museum. Opens today, to January 24 (www.nottinghamcontemporary.org, 0115-924 2421) Turner prize Nominees on display at the Tate Britain in London

In this article: David Hockney, Nottingham Contemporary, Tate Britain, London, Turner Prize, Damien Hirst, Cliff Richard, and Los Angeles

OSLO -- The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway 's capital, Oslo. Guinness Book of World Records spokeswoman Justine Bourdariat says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of...

In this article: Gingerbread man, IKEA, Guinness Book of World Records, Norway, Oslo, and Smithville, Texas

Tate Britain has appointed its first female director as Penelope Curtis was given one of the most important roles in UK art. Published: 7:00AM GMT 12 Nov 2009 The 48-year-old said today she was eager to embark on her new role, which she...

In this article: Tate Britain, Henry Moore Institute, Tate Liverpool, and Turner Prize

Penelope Curtis will take up her role as director of Tate Britain in April 2010. Photograph: Martin Argles Penelope Curtis is to become director of Tate Britain , succeeding Stephen Deuchar , who has been appointed head of the arts charity...

In this article: Tate Britain, Enrico David, Turner Prize, Henry Moore Institute, and Art Fund

Dr Curtis studied Modern History at Oxford University Tate Britain has appointed its first female director, Dr Penelope Curtis , curator of the Henry Moore Institute. "I am delighted to be appointed director of Tate Britain which has a...

In this article: Tate St Ives, Henry Moore Institute, Tate Britain, Tate Galleries, Oxford University, and Art Fund

The Metropolitan Museum unveils a "maybe" Michelangelo Saturday I stopped at New York 's Metropolitan Museum of Art to have a look at "Young Archer," the sculpture attributed to a youthful Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475 -- Rome 1564),...

In this article: Michelangelo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles Times, Cupid, Lorenzo de' Medici, Scipione Borghese, and Christopher Columbus

The actor and author was impressed by the museum's addition: "I am just pleased as all get out to be a part of the distinguished company of the Tussaud Museum. Wow! That is shocking actually. It will be here long after I am gone", he said.

In this article: Star Trek, William Shatner, Hollywood, James T Kirk, Madame Tussauds, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, and Nicole Kidman

...most precious art. In 2004, it shipped the Met Childe Hassam's Flags on the Waldorf. Two years later, it loaned Swimming to Paris ' Louvre museum. The Carter has one of its Georgia O'Keeffe canvases, Series I - No. 1, on loan to the Whitney...

In this article: Carter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins, New York, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, and Charles M. Russell

...with a huge number of names and addresses. It included high-profile visitor attractions in London such as the British Museum , Madame Tussauds , the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery , now Tate Britain. Also listed are the Queen's...

In this article: Buckingham Palace, London, Tate Gallery, National Gallery, University College London, British Museum, Madame Tussauds, and Tate Britain