Architectural landmarks like Palacio Baburizza, the fine arts museum founded by a Croatian-Chilean minerals magnate in 1916, fell into grave disrepair and eventually shuttered in 1997.
From here it's a 1.2km stroll southwest to the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum), as spectacular for its Art Deco design as it is for its murals.
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With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum).
Just before I decided to spend my summer abroad, rather than close to home as a music camp counselor, my parents and I visited the San Francisco Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum.
The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Tim Long, curator of fashion and decorative arts at the Museum of London, said he was fascinated by the CIA's use of Harris Tweed.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
It has been 16 years since the last major debut of a U.S. exhibition devoted to Mr. Ritts, a show at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts that sparked controversy when critics accused the museum of pandering to the public by displaying celebrity images that lacked depth.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has always been a mecca for lovers of early American art, but the museum's view on the subject is about to broaden.
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Now add to the mix "The Art of Scent: 1889-2012" at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
With "The Art of Scent, " the Museum of Arts and Design has left a good idea smelling rank.
Gift of the Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern Art.
Olsen is selling "The Scream" to fund the construction of a museum and arts center, Ramme Gaard, at Hvitsten, Norway, in which he plans to display the rest of his paintings.
Pioneered by MOMA, with the Modern, and spreading, with varying degrees of success, to the Whitney (Untitled), the Guggenheim (the Wright), and the Museum of Arts and Design (Robert), the formula, if executed well, can create a sum that is greater than its parts.
In 1936, she decorated her Hawaii hideaway in this style, a process beautifully documented in the new book "Doris Duke's Shangri La: A House in Paradise" (Rizzoli), the companion to an exhibition on display through Feb. 17 at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
Package includes breakfast for two each day, two passes to the Museum of Fine Arts and more.
The Ravine is currently owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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The splendid result is "Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, " at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
The show will remain at the High through June 24 and will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in St.
What will universities like Harvard, museums like the Metropolitan and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston have to say to their political representatives.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts took a critical beating with its 1995 car-history show put on when that institution was desperate for funds.
Proceeds from the sale of this piece, and 19 lots from the Law estate, will go to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
Mr Ando's approach is shared by Rafael Moneo, a Spanish architect, who designed the Audrey Jones Beck Building for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
All the thoughts and suggestions below are from Aldrich, who is a Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a donor there.
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Instead, a meandering path led to art school a few years later at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and then to Skowhegan in Maine.
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Alongside the newer part of the city, stretching from the old fort past the fashionable Avenue Cartier and the elegant Museum of Fine Arts, are the Plains of Abraham.
Its latest call has been for Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to return 32 Benin artefacts which were donated by a collector to the gallery last year.
The selection currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Michelangelo, Sacred and Profane: Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti, " curated by John Spike, does just that.
This week, Ms. Fontanals-Cisneros said she's planning to send around 85 pieces from her vast art collection to be exhibited in Havana's National Museum of Fine Arts in May.
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