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News From Friday, February 13, 2009
10:04:49 PM Coloring Perception
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Museums everywhere own his work. (The Corcoran was one of his first buyers. And the Baltimore Museum of Art is displaying his "Ladder of Success," a recent ... [more]

8:58:24 PM Museum celebrates Lincoln's birthday
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

In this bicentennial year of Lincoln’s birth, the Concord Museum will once again host Steve Wood and his performance as Abraham Lincoln. ... [more]

7:08:30 PM Should Britain return the Elgin Marbles?
First Post - Cheltenham,UK

Museums in Sweden, Germany, America and the Vatican have already acknowledged this and returned items taken from the Acropolis. The British museum should ... [more]

5:13:32 PM Green light for Mary Rose museum
BBC News - E,UK

Portsmouth City Council has given the go-ahead for the museum to house King Henry VIII's flagship. The Mary Rose Trust has raised more than £7m towards the ... [more]

3:08:34 PM Museum's call for cards
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK

Love-birds are being asked to donate their Valentine's Day cards to the city museum. Staff at Portsmouth Museums & Records Service want to borrow local ... [more]

11:20:03 AM Greece to open new Acropolis museum in June
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France

AP ATHENS, Greece: Greek officials say a new museum showcasing masterpieces from the Acropolis will be inaugurated this summer after long delays. ... [more]

10:30:54 AM Parrish Art Museum explores 'Damaged Romanticism'
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

"Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," a split exhibition at Southampton's Parrish Art Museum and Manhattan's Grey Art Gallery, focuses on the ... [more]

9:16:27 AM Lincoln's other bed
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

After a two-year, $7.2 million rehabilitation project, the National Park Service unveiled its newest museum to tell the story of Lincoln's speech. .... [more]

8:39:42 AM Museum and gallery events
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Work(s) in Progress - Learn about the process of curatorial assessment & study as the Berman prepares for expansion of museum building. Closes 4/12. Tue. ... [more]

8:14:34 AM Nepal's palace-turned-museum to open for public
China View, Beijing, China

The government had turned the palace into a museum in June last year after then King Gyanendra left the palace following the abolition of the monarchy. [more]

6:32:48 AM Negro Leagues Baseball Museum notes an 89th “birthday” anniversary
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

And today, 89 years later, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum will celebrate the anniversary with help from area students. More than 100 students from ... [more]

2:33:57 AM Law enforcement museum scales back plans
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans for a National Law Enforcement Museum are being scaled back because organizers say the recession has made it hard to raise money. ... [more]

2:33:35 AM Darwin display at museum angers creationist MLA
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast,UK

A DUP Assemblyman has urged one of Northern Ireland’s biggest museums to ‘balance out’ a forthcoming exhibition on evolution with a display about ... [more]

1:47:22 AM Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group, Artists Rights Society (ARS ...
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth “Kiss by the Window” (1892), at the Art Institute of Chicago. Its raw blue tones and eroticism have a ... [more]

1:44:39 AM 'Gardner Heist' makes for an enjoyable read
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

$25.99), by Ulrich Boser: Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men wearing police uniforms knocked on the door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ... [more]

12:49:39 AM Dada and surrealist masterpieces make US stop
The Associated Press

The works by artists such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray will make their only US appearance at the Cincinnati Art Museum beginning Sunday. ... [more]

12:47:43 AM Minister opens door to Glasgow museums
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK

By BRIAN FERGUSON SCOTLAND'S new culture minister yesterday pledged to examine the case for Glasgow's museums and galleries collection to be accorded ... [more]



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