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11:36:32 PM TEMECULA: Mystery play set for museum
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

The Temecula Valley Museums annual Erle Stanley Gardner event on Nov. 19 will include a short theatrical presentation of a Perry Mason mystery by the Temecula Valley Players. A mystery play will be acted out at an upcoming Erle Stanley Gardner event  [more]

11:03:43 PM Artifacts | Maurizio Cattelan Gives His 'All'
New York Times (blog)

David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim FoundationAn installation view of Maurizio Cattelan's “All,” on view at the Guggenheim Museum. All summer long there were rumors. For his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan had a big surprise i [more]

11:03:43 PM Cleaning woman in Germany damages $1.1 million sculpture by scrubbing
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Martin Kippenberger's “When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling” remains in place at the city's Ostwall museum, despite the damage sustained earlier this month when a cleaner scrubbed away the painted puddle beneath a rubber trough pl [more]

11:03:43 PM Museum to Celebrate Anniversary with Big Bash
Patch.com

Over 300 distinguished guests and supporters of the Hoboken Historical Museum will celebrate the institution's 25 th anniversary in a special “GalaPalooza25” bash at the posh W Hotel. The Museum began operating in 1986 and moved to its current locati [more]

9:35:27 PM US authorities seize painting from Fla. museum
The Associated Press

(AP) — US authorities on Friday seized a nearly 500-year-old Italian painting that has been on display at a Florida museum, saying it was stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish family during World War II and should be returned to the family's heirs. ... [more]

7:40:17 PM Museum Shop Around
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Museum gift shops "pop up" at Strathmore's Mansion in time for early holiday shopping for your artsy friends and loved ones. Participating shops include the Audubon Sanctuary Shop, B&O Railroad Museum, the Bead Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, .. [more]

7:40:17 PM NC Museum of History opens final part of state history exhibit
WECT - Wilmington,NC,USA

RALEIGH, NC (WECT) - This weekend, the North Carolina Museum of History will open the final part of its largest exhibit ever, "The Story of North Carolina." Thousands of people have already seen part one of the exhibit, which opened in the spring, .. [more]

7:40:17 PM Snickering encouraged at NY caricature exhibit
Reuters - NY,USA

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Snickering is strongly encouraged at a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Giggles and guffaws that typically would be met with a cold stare in the museum's hushed galleries are the goal of ... [more]

4:07:27 PM Germany: Cleaning Woman Damages Sculpture
FOX News - USA

3, 2011: Wenn's anfaengt durch die Decke zu tropfen" ( "When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling" ) by German artist Martin Kippenberger in the Ostwall museum in Dortmund, western Germany. BERLIN-- A modern art installation valued at euro800,000 ($1. [more]

4:07:27 PM US Authorities Seizing Painting From Fla. Museum
ABC News - United States

US authorities say they are seizing a more than 400-year-old Italian painting that has been on display at a Florida museum. US Attorney Pamela Marsh announced Friday that the federal government will hold onto the painting until a federal judge can .. [more]

4:07:27 PM DuPage Children's Museum selling Bubble Bash tickets
Chicago Sun-Times

The DuPage Children's Museum is offering $5 off its annual countdown to noon New Year's Eve party for those who make reservations by Nov. 30. From 9 am to noon, kids will be treated to live music, train-themed activities and light refreshments. ... [more]

3:48:36 PM Liverpool museum sues architect on faults
Financial Times

By Andrew Bounds and Will Hurst Details of dangerous work carried out on the new £72m Museum of Liverpool – including the installation of a suspended ceiling that later collapsed – have been set out in court documents by its operators, who are suing  [more]

3:48:36 PM NM museums turning to social media, better lobbying during economic downturn
The Republic

AP Farmington, NM — New Mexico museums are creating a strategy to survive during the economic downturn. The Farmington Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/sw8f26) that the state's museums are turning to social Media, aiming to collaborate better on .. [more]

1:58:47 PM Lincoln museum offering postcards to troops
WJBC News

The "Boys in Blue" postcards will be available at the Lincoln Library and Museum reception desks. (Photo courtesy of the Lincoln Museum Store website.) SPRINGFIELD – Postcards depicting Illinois Civil War soldiers are available from the Abraham Linco [more]

12:40:27 PM Downtown RAM project: right place, right time
Edmonton Journal

But it's no coincidence that the internationally acclaimed architects who competed for the RAM didn't come up with the kind of stellar, innovative designs that people have come to expect for major new museums and galleries. ... [more]

10:35:27 AM Lincoln University Visits San Francisco Academy of Science and De Young
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Lincoln University visited the San Francisco Academy of Science and De Young Museum on October 6 as part of the university's monthly field trips. Lincoln University visited the San Francisco Academy of Science  [more]

10:18:06 AM DENVER AT NIGHT: A night of free art museums
Colorado Daily - Boulder,CO,USA

By Christy Fantz fantz@coloradodaily.com E very time I hear "Night at the Museum" I think of that stuffed wooly mammoth. Taxidermy = extreme phobia. Add tusks, antlers or horns and I'll have a panic attack with a side of wet pants. ... [more]

7:05:18 AM Children's Museum hopes to begin exhibiting at courthouse property by
Fall River Herald News - Fall River,MA,USA

Fall River Herald News By Michael Holtzman Having scaled their first hurdle, leaders of the Children's Museum of Greater Fall River hope to begin offering limited public exhibits at a half-vacant courthouse by late spring. Jo-Anne Sbrega, museum pres [more]

4:33:00 AM Arab Riches, Weird Fruit Bat Dazzle at Met: Manuela Hoelterhoff
Bloomberg

A small room with photographs of a dusty dig in Iran in the 1930s and '40s reminds us of a time when museums like the Met ran joint archeological expeditions that discovered and saved the world's buried treasures. Such collaborations have of course . [more]

1:09:17 AM New exhibit tells of museum's efforts to save wilderness
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By William Mullen, Chicago Tribune reporter It isn't often that the Field Museum creates an entirely new permanent exhibit like the one opening Friday, which was more than 15 years in the making and covers a topic museum officials takes particular .. [more]

1:09:17 AM For His Grand Finale, an Artist Hangs Himself
Wall Street Journal - USA

By KIMBERLY CHOU It's Wednesday afternoon at the Guggenheim Museum, two days before the Maurizio Cattelan retrospective "All" opens to the public, and the least visibly stressed person in the building is Maurizio Cattelan. Slim at 51, in tight black  [more]

1:09:17 AM New Math Museum Looks To Bring Math To The Masses
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Math may suffer from a reputation for difficulty, but the new Museum of Mathematics, scheduled to open in 2012 in Manhattan, is trying to change that attitude by bringing excitement and wonder to the forefront. Glen Whitney, the nonprofit museum's .. [more]

1:03:22 AM The Getty Museum is in a legal fight over Armenian Bible pages
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Armenian Orthodox Church seeks eight pages of the Zeyt'un Gospels that the Getty Museum bought in 1994. The Getty asked the motion to be dismissed, but judge orders mediation. By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times The J. Paul Getty Trust failed Thursday t [more]

1:03:22 AM The Mob Museum opens in Las Vegas on February 14, 2012
eTurboNews - Haleiwa,HI,USA

Uncover the real life battle between organized crime and law enforcement when The Mob Museum opens to the public on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2012. The Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is a world class ... [more]



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