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News From Tuesday, February 19, 2008
11:06:43 PM Museum issue coming to a head
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Will the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion be the municipal museum? Everything else is ancillary. For City Hall to answer "yes" to that question, it would be in spite of ... [more]

8:12:16 PM Four city museums to offer free entry in March
China Internet Information Center| - China

Four museums and memorial sites in Shanghai will start a trial next month to offer free entry, Oriental Morning Post reported today. ... [more]

5:33:19 PM Stolen Art on Display in a Search for Owners
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Running parallel to the show of French-held art is a companion exhibition: looted art, with no known owners, held in custody by the Israel Museum itself. ... [more]

5:33:19 PM Artist Walter Wick at Nassau Museum of Art
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA

Wick, who lives and works in Hartford , was in New York recently to plan his exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art , "Games, Gizmos and Toys in the ... [more]

5:13:14 PM Museums may shut as staff stage walkouts over delayed pay award
The Times - London,England,UK

Four national museums are facing closure after hundreds of curators, conservators and warders voted to take strike action in a bitter row over pay that ... [more]

12:51:11 PM Hunt for Stolen Art Leads to Parked Car
The Associated Press -

The paintings, worth $64 million combined, were still under the display glass used by the private museum from which they were stolen in a Feb. ... [more]

10:39:18 AM FACTBOX: High profile art thefts
Reuters - NY,USA

(Reuters) - Swiss police have found two of the four oil paintings by 19th Century masters, which were stolen from a Zurich museum earlier this month in one ... [more]

10:39:18 AM Schulz Museum Architect C. David Robinson Dies at 71
Editor & Publisher - USA

based Charles M. Schulz Museum, which -- since its 2002 opening -- has focused on the life and work of the "Peanuts" creator. [more]

5:48:51 AM Making friends, finding purpose through 203 museums
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

And they kept on going - until they had visited 203 museums, every one they could find within 50 miles of Philadelphia. When they first set out, ... [more]

1:44:30 AM Forget clubbing on Friday, hit up the museums
NYU Washington Square News - New York,NY,USA

Students forget their homework, call their friends, dress up and hurry out the door, looking forward to a wild night of ... museum hopping? ... [more]

1:44:30 AM Brooklyn Museum
NYU Washington Square News - New York,NY,USA

Unfortunately, not all museums enjoy this sort of popularity. The Brooklyn Museum, located in the Park Slope area, houses the second largest permanent .... [more]



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