Art Museums

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Madrid gets a new contemporary art museum—complete with vertical garden of 15,000 plants
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have converted a former power station for the Caixa Foundation
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz | 6.3.08 | Issue 189
MADRID. Madrid’s latest art museum, the CaixaForum, has opened in the heart of the city’s cultural district near the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums. The $94m project has been funded by the Caixa Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Spanish bank, Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona.
Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the museum is housed in a converted 1899 power station. The building—one of the city’s few remaining examples of historically significant industrial architecture—was acquired by the foundation in 2001.
The 19th-century brick walls have been retained, but raised on piers so that visitors can walk underneath the building. There are two underground floors, while a two-floor attic storey of rusted iron surmounts the original building. The conversion has increased the floorspace five-fold—from 2,000 sq. m to 10,000 sq. m.

Maria Sibylla Merian en dochters: vrouwelevens tussen kunst en wetenschap (Maria Sibylla Merian and daughters: women of art and science) Museum het Rembrandthuis
Exhibition - 23 February 2008 – 18 May 2008
Museum Het Rembrandthuis en het J. Paul Getty Museum wijden dit jaar een omvangrijke tentoonstelling aan het getekende en gedrukte oeuvre van Maria Sibylla Merian en haar dochters. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) is de belangrijkste en meest invloedrijke natuurhistorische tekenaar die in de zeventiende eeuw in Nederland werkzaam is geweest.
De tentoonstelling omvat circa 100 originele tekeningen, aquarellen, prenten en boeken, afkomstig uit musea, prentenkabinetten en bibliotheken in binnen- en buitenland. Het merendeel van deze meesterwerken werd nog niet eerder geëxposeerd.

Uit het goede hout gesneden: middeleeuwse beelden uit de collectie Schoufour-Martin (Medieval sculptures from the Schoufour-Martin collection) From February 16 until May 25, 2008, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will exhibit a special collection of colored, late-medieval sculptures. The collection will be donated to the museum by Rotterdam harbor entrepreneur Jacques Schoufour. The sculptures were made around 1500 in the Netherlands, France and Germany. They have been amazingly well preserved and the colors are still as expressive as five hundred years ago

The 8th Communicating the Museum conference
The leading international meeting place for museum and cultural marketing and communication professionals
"Communication Strategies: How to make an impact" 25 - 28 June 2008, Venice, Italy
Are you a marketing or communication professional looking for fresh and innovative ideas to plan your communication strategies? The Communicating the Museum conference, now in it's 8th year, has chosen "Communication Strategies: How to make an impact" as this year's principal theme. How to make an impact has become vital for any organisation building a smart communication strategy and is the key to any organisation's success - whether it be a strategy for the long or the short term, a permanent collection or a temporary exhibition. Topics covered include strategic planning in: Audience Research and Development, New Media, Advertising, Programming and more.

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol is located on Holland Boulevard, in the area behind the passport control between the E and F Pier. The museum is open every day from 7:00 until 20:00 and admission is free. It houses a permanent exhibition of ten works by Dutch masters of the Golden Age from the Rijksmuseums collection. The temporary exhibition changes a number of times a year.
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol is a unique joint initiative of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The Rijksmuseum is the first museum in the world to have an annex at an airport, while Schiphol is the first airport with a museum in its terminal. The museum was officially opened on 9 December 2002 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange.

Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery of Florence
The "Virtual Uffizi" web site is brought to you by Aperion S.p.A., Casa Editrice Giusti di S. Becocci which made available all texts and most of the images, Sponsors who made all this possible plus a bunch of other Internet friends who had been spidering the 'Net for images.
What is in the site:
actually the site contains 505 exact files, one for each of the painting exhibited in the real "Uffizi Gallery", plus apx. 400 images of the above mentioned files. (The number of paintings exhibited is always changing due to restorations, external exhibitions, damages from the 1993 bomb, new acquisitions and so on). We are also planning to add detailed explanation of each painting plus a lot of other things but nobody knows when this is going to happen.

The Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings‚ sculpture‚ drawings‚ prints‚ rare books‚ and manuscripts reflects the development of British art‚ life‚ and thought from the Elizabethan period onward. The Center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions and educational programs‚ including films‚ concerts‚ lectures‚ tours‚ and special events. It also provides numerous opportunities for scholarly research‚ such as residential fellowships. Academic resources of the Center include the Reference Library and Photo Archive‚ Conservation Laboratory‚ and Study Room for examining works on paper.

Design and the Elastic Mind February 24–May 12, 2008
Art Museum as Research Lab
A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art presents fresh talent in data visualization and other design disciplines that could have far-reaching business applications
A new exhibition at MoMA organized by Antonelli, which opened to the public on Feb. 24 and is on view through May 12, illustrates her point—in a spectacular and often provocative way.
The show, "Design and the Elastic Mind," features 200 projects by a host of international designers and firms, and gives a nod to "hot" technologies and new economic opportunities and consumer products. Innovative processes represented in the exhibition including nanotechnology, design for new markets in developing nations, and "three-dimensional printing" of physical objects directly from computer files.