Current Exhibits at the Milwaukee Public Museum

If you can make it to Milwaukee between now and June 6th, you'll have chance to see a truly remarkable exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum:

I'm very impressed that the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is happening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and nowhere else. If you have any interest in ancient sacred texts for any reason, religious, or secular, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Another exhibit has also come to my attention and i'd like to mention it here because it is completely online. This virtual exhibit is called 125 Objects, 125 Years, and its purpose is to highlight a few of the museum's most unusual items, with a focus on those objects that are difficult to exhibit due to their fragile condition. Many of the items deal with Native American culture, natural history, and nineteenth century popular culture.

For example, here's one of the 125 images:

And the caption that goes with it:

Check out 125 Objects 125 years now!

Edvard Munch Exhibit

From now until April 26, an exhibition will be going on at the Art Institute of Chicago. If you aren't a big enough art fan to drive down to Chicago, the companion website still has plenty to offer you.


The title of the exhibit is
Becoming Edvard Munch:
Influence, Anxiety, and Myth

Have you ever wondered if the man behind The Scream and other iconic images of anxiety and despair was mentally unstable himself? Was he an isolated madman whose troubled visions emerged from a tortured psyche?





And who were Munch's influences? The popular French and German artists of his day, or other Scandanavians? That information, as well as links that allow you to buy tickets to the exhibit, or learn of other things going on at the Art Institute of Chicago, can be accessed at this link.

Website of the Day

Calendars through the ages

http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars
What was the deal with that extra second just before midnight on December 31, 2008? What’s a Julian calendar? Why are Chinese calendar years named for animals? Explore all about the astronomy and history of calendar systems. (Do check out the other exhibits at webexhibits.org and don’t miss Daylight Saving Time, SpicyNodes version.)

Website of the Day
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/vangoghnight/

The Museum of Modern Art presents this companion to an exhibit on dispaly until January 2009. The exhibit "explores painter Vincent Van Gogh's nocturnal interiors and landscapes." The site includes paintings, drawings, and letters along with an audio commentary.