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8:23:45 PM UNI museum closure feared
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

He explains the differences in antelopes to museum's Connie Swoboda at the Horns of Africa exhibit during a visit Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. (RICK CHASE / Courier Staff Photographer) CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- The future is in flux for the University Museums  [more]

3:17:09 PM Museum of Glass names Susan Warner as Deputy Director/Curator
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Museum of Glass announces the appointment of Susan Warner as Deputy Director/Curator. Susan Warner joined Museum of Glass as the Director of Education in February 2001, prior to the Museum's official opening in 2002. In 2006, Warner was appointed ... [more]

2:38:41 PM NYC museum limits visitors in bathtub-like artwork
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

In this Tuesday, Oct. 25 2011 photo, an employee of the New Museum floats in "Giant Psycho Tank" during the press preview of the Carsten Holler: Experience exhibit at the New Museum in New York. (Mary Altaffer / AP) In this Tuesday, Oct. 25 2011 phot [more]

2:38:41 PM FACT CHECK: GOP lawmakers spin funding tall tales
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

First on the list: the Lincoln Highway 200-Mile Roadside Museum in south-central Pennsylvania. It was described as receiving $300000 in 2004 for signs, murals, colorful vintage gas pumps painted by local artists and refurbishing of a former roadside  [more]

12:15:38 PM Museum will celebrate 130 years of growing
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA

By Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, NY -- Celebrating its 130th anniversary, The Staten Island Museum will host a dinner on Thursday, Nov. 10, 6 pm, at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield. Tickets are $100 per person for Museum members/$130 for ... [more]

12:05:37 PM Abu Dhabi confirms museum delay
Financial Times

By Camilla Hall Plans to build Louvre and Guggenheim museums on a reclaimed island off Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, have been delayed, according to the government-owned developer. The Tourism Development and Investment Company  [more]

10:28:36 AM Children's museum close enough to complete for a peek
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

By ELIZABETH KELLAR David Albers/Staff - Construction continues on the ground floor of the Golisano Children's Museum of Naples. David Albers/Staff - Simulated animal tracks meander around the sidewalk of the Cottage to the Amphitheater at the Golisa [more]

9:55:07 AM Milwaukee Art Museum exhibit boasts works by van Gogh, Monet
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA

Edgar Degas' “Woman in a Tub” is one of 125 drawings, watercolors and pastels featured in “Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper” at the Milwaukee Art Museum. / Milwaukee Art Museum/AP The Associated Press Where: Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum [more]

9:55:07 AM Abu Dhabi delays the opening of the Louvre, Guggenheim museums
CPI Financial - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Art lovers will have to wait longer for top named museums to open their doors in the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi. The UAE has delayed the opening dates for the Louvre and Guggenheim museums as well as the Zayed National Museum which wer [more]

8:36:19 AM MU museum opens for a haunted night
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA

Natalie Fish, dressed as an ancient Egyptian princess, speaks from behind a glass to a group of visitors Saturday night during the eighth annual haunted museum event at the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology. ... [more]

8:36:19 AM Groundbreaking Rembrandt exhibit opens
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA

By Kelley Kirk A groundbreaking new exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art brings together the largest number of authentic Rembrandt van Rijn paintings from American collections ever assembled. Forty-six paintings will be on display in ... [more]

7:52:39 AM Tacoma's wild cards Museums, JBLM may be key factors in revitalizing local
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA

TheNewsTribune.com By luck, Dale Chihuly, Harold LeMay and Lester Baskin lived here and gave rise to museums. In fact, we're arguably one of the most museum-dense cities in the world. We can use cultural tourism as a wild card. By bringing out-of-tow [more]

7:07:09 AM Taylor House opens as Frenchtown museum
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA

By Elizabeth M. Mack Lucille Alexander, the granddaughter of Lewis and Lucretia Taylor, offers a historical perspective on the historic Taylor House, which is now a museum. Also pictured are Lt. Anthony Dowling, left, state Sen. ... [more]

7:07:09 AM Museum bog program Tuesday
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

By Anonymous MARION – The Marion Natural History Museum will offer a program on what it takes to build a bog Nov. 2 at the Spring Street museum, located on the second floor of the Elizabeth Taber Library museum. Dawn Allen of the Cape Cod Cranberry . [more]

5:21:09 AM Eerie desolation rules in George Ault exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Kansas City Star “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” runs through June 14 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Hours are 10 am-4 pm Wednesday, 10 am-9 pm Thursday and Friday, 10 am-5 pm Saturday, and noon-5 pm Sunday. Tickets, which inclu [more]

4:36:30 AM Carnegie's latest Teenie Harris exhibit maintains its visual punch
Leader Times - Kittanning,PA,USA

By Kurt Shaw, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW The Carnegie Museum of Art exhibits 987 of his photographs in a larger-than-life presentation. When: Through April 7. Hours: 10 am-5 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays; until 8 pm Thursdays; noon to 5 pm Sundays Kurt Shaw i [more]

4:36:30 AM Fatal attractions of historic European cemeteries
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

When I'm traveling in Europe, I often see stupid "torture museums" that are cleverly marketed. They make lots of money by appealing to the... By Tribune Media Services Tourists visit the grave of composer Frederic Chopin in the historic Père-Lachaise [more]

2:58:53 AM Air and Space Museum heads for demolition amid heritage status confusion
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

The de Havilland Tiger Moth sits near the entrance to the Air and Space Museum. A wrecking ball is looming over the historic building at the heart of Canadian aviation in World War II, amid questions about its status as a heritage site. ... [more]

2:58:53 AM UHV education professor, museum pair for 'Look, Think, Do' books
Victoria Advocate

Jill Fox, left, a University of Houston-Victoria education professor, shows one of the "Look, Think, Do" activity books for fourth-graders that she produced with Lisa Brimberry, education coordinator at the Museum of the Coastal Bend. ... [more]

1:05:33 AM NYC museum limits visitors in bathtub-like artwork after Health
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post NEW YORK — Naked art lovers are no longer able to take dips together in a bathtub-like installation at a New York City museum after warnings from health officials. The “Psycho Tank” is part of an interactive exhibit “Experience” by Ge [more]

1:05:33 AM Stop getting nude! Museum told skinny-dipping exhibit can only have one
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Daily Mail By Laurie Whitwell A museum housing a skinny-dipping exhibit, in which visitors strip naked and splash around together, has been told only one bather can use it at a time. New York health officials have ruled that Carsten Höller's 'Giant P [more]

1:05:33 AM BYU Museum of Art names new director
Deseret News

PROVO —Mark A. Magleby, a BYU art history faculty member since 1997, has been appointed as the new director of the Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Stephen M. Jones, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications, announced the appointmen [more]



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