Art and Museums
Artists in France: "It is the loveliest country you ever saw, the red brown roofs, the white houses, and the green fields."
The 'impressive Normandy coast proved an artistic crucible for European and American artists during the course of the 19th and 20th centuries' while Portland-born artist Mildred Burrage, who as a young aspiring painter traveled in the early 1900s to Giverny, France. She trained her eye on the landscape, creating paintings and filling sketchbooks with her Impressionist style. more »
Codebreaker: Celebrating lan Turing’s Life and Legacy On the 100th Anniversary of His Birth
Turing designed the ‘bombes’ to attempt to deal with the proliferation of enemy messages and therefore pinpoint the location of German U-Boat submarines. Eventually, over 200 were built, each weighing a ton and operating constantly at Bletchley Park and other secret sites in the UK. The exhibition also includes a working aid used to break Enigma, which has never been displayed outside of GCHQ. more »
Oooh-La-La: Posters of Paris
Exhibition celebrates the art of Toulouse-Lautrec and the Paris Belle Époque. Posters of Paris resurrects the boulevards of nineteenth-century France
This summer, the Milwaukee Art Museum transports visitors to nineteenth-century Paris with its featur… more »
The Long Arty, Historical, and Scientific Summer: Blue Star Museums for Military and Their Families
Among this year's new participants are the American Civil War Center at in Richmond, VA; the New Mexico Museum of Space History; the Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland, Ohio; the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco, CA; the Menil Collection in Houston, TX; and the World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, CO. more »