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11:23:11 PM Museum of the Coastal Bend names its first distinguished fellow
Victoria Advocate

Charles Spurlin has been named the Museum of the Coastal Bend's first "Distinguished Fellow of the Museum of the Coastal Bend." The museum's fellowship was established to recognize outstanding service and efforts toward preserving the history and ... [more]

5:59:42 PM Secrets of the 'J. Edgar' Screening at the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

On Friday night, following a screening of his latest film “J. Edgar” at the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, that meant walking onstage for a Q&A session happily munching on a leftover green room snack. Eastwood continued snacking through a standing [more]

4:14:22 PM Spain's Prado museum hosts large Hermitage exhibit
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HAROLD HECKLE, AP In this undated photo released by the Prado Museum on Friday Nov. 4, 2011, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 'Lute Player' is pictured. The painting, on loan from the Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum, is part of an exhibiti [more]

4:14:22 PM Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past
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Second City tapped the Chicago History Museum to help develop a new show devoted to Chicago's past and present that will lampoon familiar territory such as the city's brutal winters, its colorful politics and the woebegone Chicago Cubs. ... [more]

3:27:10 PM Art: Victory in war of the Rose Museum
Daily News Transcript - Needham,MA,USA

By Chris Bergeron Early this year, Roy Dawes worried about the future of the Rose Art Museum until Brandeis University's new president, Frederick M. Lawrence, dropped in for a visit shortly after his arrival. Preparing to celebrate the renovated ... [more]

2:19:29 PM Spain's Prado museum hosts large exhibition of art lent by Russia's
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post MADRID — Spain's Prado museum is hosting a large exhibition of European art lent by Russia's Hermitage, a rare opportunity to see such work outside the vast St. Petersburg museum. Among the close to 180 exhibits are two large painting [more]

1:12:28 PM German cleaner cleans Kippenberger art piece to destruction
DigitalJournal.com - Canada

The Telegraph reported that museum spokesperson Dagmar Papajewski said "It is now impossible to return it to its original state." Papajewski also said that the cleaner may not have been made aware by the outside contractor of the museums rules that . [more]

11:25:57 AM MSU's Broad Art Museum on target for April opening
Lansing State Journal

Michigan State University's Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is nearing completion on campus. Construction is expected to be finished in February 2012, with it opening in late April. The estimated cost of the museum is $40 million to $45 million. ... [more]

9:44:59 AM Fun on the row: City hosting day-long museum celebration
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA

"The reason for the event is to give the community an opportunity to go to all the museums at a low cost," said Wilcox on Thursday. Wilcox said many people within the city's sphere of influence have never been to any of the museums. ... [more]

9:25:16 AM Museum of History opens exhibit about NC's past
Myrtle Beach Sun News

AP RALEIGH, NC -- More than 14000 years of the state's past are now on view at the North Carolina Museum of History. The museum's exhibit, "The Story of North Carolina," is now complete, tracing life in the state from the earliest inhabitants through [more]

9:25:16 AM Museum website seeks tributes to veterans
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA

Jonah Langenbeck, director of interactive services at the National World War II Museum, said staff noticed that visitors who encounter the institution's many veteran volunteers almost invariably wanted to say "thank you" to them. ... [more]

5:25:20 AM New art museum turns spotlight on Bentonville, Ark.
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

By STEVE PAUL CULTURAL DESTINATION The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opens to the public Friday in Bentonville, Ark., a three-hour drive south on US 71 from Kansas City. Because of high demand, free tickets will be available only by timed .. [more]

5:25:20 AM Coastal Arts League Museum features Vincent Rascon exhibition
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

By Bonny Zanardi Work created over the past 40 years by Vincent Rascon is featured this month at the Coastal Arts League Museum. A reception with the artist will be held from 5 to 7 pm Nov. 12. Rascon also will give a lecture in Spanish, ... [more]

5:25:20 AM Museum of Texas Tech to exhibit Lynn Haney's Santas
LubbockOnline.com

Haney opens an exhibit next week at the Texas Tech Museum. By Ray Westbrook The Museum of Texas Tech, which has become known as much for its art as for its dinosaur bones, is putting together an exhibit of the best work of three-dimensional artist Ly [more]

3:47:47 AM Leonardo Museum off to a slow but 'great' start
KSL-TV

By Richard Piatt SALT LAKE CITY — The Leonardo is a museum that's struggling with its image a month after it opened. Part of the reason may be because it's hard to describe. “The easiest way to explain The Leonardo is that we're a new museum that's . [more]

2:24:14 AM Museums curate military might
Chicago Sun-Times

By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER November 4, 2011 7:14PM The soaring Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, NC, attracts more than 100000 visitors a year and tells the story how America's military paratroopers developed into today's Special ... [more]



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