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News From Monday, November 29, 2010
9:46:14 PM What's Happening: Things to Do in 2010/2011
Wall Street Journal - USA

It's a fine time to discover the city's wealth of museums and monuments, like the Canadian War Museum, Royal Canadian Mint, and National War Memorial, ... [more]

8:34:26 PM NM museum to sell O'Keeffe painting in NYC
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP NEW YORK — A Georgia O'Keeffe painting from the New Mexico museum that's named after her is going on the auction block in New York City. ... [more]

7:38:40 PM Warhol Museum director to depart
Leader Times - Kittanning,PA,USA

Thomas Sokolowski will resign at the end of this year as director of the Andy Warhol Museum. Monday's announcement came in a statement from the Carnegie ... [more]

6:36:38 PM Alaska tribe fighting Pa. museum over artifacts
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA

An Alaskan tribe has demanded the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology return artifacts the tribe considers sacred. ... [more]

5:10:40 PM Poor attendance might doom Fort Wayne museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

AP Fort Wayne officials are considering whether low attendance and needed repairs will force the closing of a museum founded by a taxidermist nearly 50 ... [more]

4:34:06 PM Labour laments high museum fees
di-ve.com - Malta

by di-ve.com - editorial@di-ve.com Labour's fears that increased ticket prices for museums would lead to lower attendance figures have been proven right, ... [more]

3:36:06 PM Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA's New Show
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Public museums have historically been places where the social order is revealed, for better or worse, in their terms of power and knowledge--and in many ... [more]

12:34:16 PM Madiba's grandson denies museum claims
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

But Mandla Mandela said house 5818 Orlando East would not be turned into a museum. He said the Ngcongolo family, who refused to move out of the house, .... [more]

12:09:40 PM Museum of Nottingham Life explores high street history
BBC News - E,UK

There are a range of activities with local history societies and museums, libraries and archives in Nottinghamshire. One exhibition takes place at the ... [more]

10:01:02 AM Museum of Science to Reopen Charles Hayden Planetarium -- Now New
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

PR Web (press release) The Museum celebrates the 52-year history of New England's first major planetarium by unveiling an entirely new kind of cultural venue — the most ... [more]

8:27:00 AM Railroad museum tradition appeals to young and old
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA

26, will garner enough donations to fund a new home for the museum. Kroger had previously lent the museum an adjoining space at its Waynesboro location, ... [more]

8:06:13 AM Museum told to return Tlingit artifacts
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA

These items and dozens more belong to clan members, not the Pennsylvania museum where they've been stored for decades, a federal committee ruled recently. ... [more]

6:30:37 AM At local museum shops, unique gifts and holiday deals
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA

Of course, a lot of the deals are available to members only, which might be a good gift in itself: n Williams College Museum of Art: Holiday shopping event ... [more]

5:15:59 AM Museum aims to connect with community
Bennington Banner - Bennington,VT,USA

BENNINGTON -- When the Bennington Museum hosts its annual Festival of Trees Gala this week, the event will mark a change of vision for both the festival and ... [more]

4:05:52 AM Report: In the Middle East, Building Museums as National Identity
Design Taxi - NYC,USA

Three colossal museums are to be built on a barren island on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. A US$800 million Frank Gehry-designed ... [more]

1:42:36 AM Seneca-Schuyler Town Talk: Finger Lakes art on display at Fla. museum
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA

Ithaca Journal Pam Harbaugh, writing in Florida Today, said the Clarke exhibit at the Brevard Art Museum last summer revealed "the life of a man moved by the joy of art. ... [more]



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