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News From Friday, February 24, 2012
10:45:34 PM Metropolitan Museum Reveals Details of Spring Schiaparelli/Prada Show
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

(Photos: Hoyningen-Huené/Vogue/Condé Nast Archive and Guido Harari/Contrasto/Redux) It's Fashion Week in Milan, and between yesterday's pattern-happy Prada collection and this evening's Goth glam Versace looks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art took ove [more]

10:45:34 PM O.C. Museum of Art opens major Diebenkorn exhibit
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA

OC Museum of Art opens 'Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series,' a major exhibition the institution has been planning for years. 50% off! $14 for Soak Off Color Gel Manicures at Finest Nails! By RICHARD CHANG / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER He's one  [more]

10:45:34 PM Eisner Museum revamps image becomes Foundation
Milwaukee Small Business Times - Milwaukee,WI,USA

The Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design has transitioned to become The Eisner Creative Foundation, which has a new mission to help discover, educate and inspire the next generation of Wisconsin's creative professionals. [more]

10:45:34 PM Las Vegas Art Museum's collection finds new place to hang, at Smith Center
Las Vegas Weekly - Las Vegas,NV,USA

Patrick Duffy retrieves Robert Matherwell's “Summer Light Series” 49/55 to be prepared for relocation from the warehouse in the previously closed Las Vegas Art Museum Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. The Las Vegas Art Museum's collection of contemporary works  [more]

9:25:59 PM Bucket List Destination: Harley-Davidson Museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

If you have a list of museums you want to visit before you die, make sure the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee is on it. Completed just four short years ago, the museum is less than two miles away from Harley World Headquarters, where the first .. [more]

9:25:59 PM The Museum of Modern Art tackles the foreclosure crisis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA

Lately, an increasing number of museums are giving their art-for-art's-sake mantras a bit of a rest and behaving more like think tanks. I'm all for this. Pure experience is great, but museum's are ultimately about a balance of things. [more]

6:15:55 PM Review: Mob Museum opens in Las Vegas
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Las Vegas — The line between the experiential museum, with its high entertainment quotient and tech-heavy immersion in sound, video and gaming technology, and the theme park, with all of the above plus thrill rides, is an increasingly thin one. [more]

6:15:55 PM Museum of B'cast Communications opens new facility—with Betty White
Radio-Info.com

Radio-Info.com The iconic 90-year-old actress will headline the Museum of Broadcast Communications' 25th anniversary celebration in Chicago on June 12. Robert Feder reports in "Time Out" that the next day, the museum will launch its new 62000 square- [more]

6:00:14 PM World's First Pizza Museum, 'Pizza Brain,' To Display Brian Dwyer's
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post And Philadelphia will soon gain a big new weapon in the pizza wars: the world's first pizza museum. When it opens late this spring in Philly neighborhood Fishtown, Pizza Brain will display 27-year-old Brian Dwyer's collection of pizza [more]

4:35:29 PM Obamas celebrate museum groundbreaking dbreaking groundbreaking for musuem
The Tand D.com

AP This April 14, 2009, photo shows the winning design concept for the National Museum of African American History and Culture submitted by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup in Washington. Visit this story at TheTandD.com/blackhistory for more photos fr [more]

4:35:29 PM Museum to Feature Indiana Fashion Designers
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA

The Indiana Museum of Art is planning to highlight the work of Hoosier fashion designers. The exhibition will feature the work of four designers, covering more than 50 years in the industry. The museum says the highlights include an evening gown for  [more]

2:04:46 PM Smithsonian's African-American History Museum an 'Opportunity for
AssociatedPress -

PBS News Hour Ground was broken Wednesday on the National Mall for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open in 2015. Jeffrey Brown discusses the pivotal moment in the long, $500 million effort to showcase [more]

1:31:48 PM Miami Science Museum groundbreaking today
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

By Hannah Sampson, The Miami Herald A groundbreaking ceremony Friday marks the beginning of construction at the downtown Miami site of the future Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Miami's new science museum will let visitors dance on a .. [more]

12:03:53 PM UNI cuts target museum, athletics
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA

IOWA CITY -- The University of Northern Iowa said Thursday it would close a 120-year-old campus natural history museum, trim subsidies for athletics and outsource campus printing services as part of a strategic plan to save money for other academic . [more]

9:33:13 AM Spanish museum gives Picasso's “Guernica” masterpiece undergoes thorough ...
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Madrid's Reina Sofia museum — where “Guernica” is housed — has teamed up with Spanish telecommunication company Telefonica to develop the technology, which uses advanced infrared and ultraviolet photography. The machine was built so that “Guernica” . [more]

9:33:13 AM New science museum to break ground Friday
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

A groundbreaking ceremony marks the onset of construction for the bayfront science museum in Miami that's to open in 2015. By Hannah Sampson Miami's new science museum will let visitors dance on a floor that captures their energy, eat food grown in t [more]

9:33:13 AM Museum automaton has link to 'Hugo' Scorcese's film sparks interest in ...
Arab Times - Kuwait

After the visit, Selznick got in touch with mechanical whiz Andy Baron, a book designer, who came to Philadelphia and fixed the automaton that museum officials feared was irreparable. Penniman said the automaton has fascinated children and adults for [more]

9:33:13 AM National Museum of the Marine Corps invites people to bring their
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post The National Museum of the Marine Corps plans to hold a weekend event at which experts can help families learn more about their military-related antiques. Museum officials say Saturday's event at the museum in Prince William County wi [more]

8:10:33 AM UNI plans to close museum, trim athletics funds
Omaha World Herald - Omaha,NE,USA

IOWA CITY (AP) — The University of Northern Iowa said Thursday it would close a 120-year-old campus natural history museum, trim subsidies for athletics and outsource campus printing services as part of a strategic plan to save money for other ... [more]

8:10:33 AM See the Designs for David Adjaye's Glittering New African American
ARTINFO

ARTINFO by Janelle Zara The largest of several new museums devoted to African American history and the Civil Rights movement, the $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture (or NMAAHC for short, kind of), broke ground on the [more]

7:08:01 AM African American History Museum to tell untold stories
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA

The Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum held a grand opening reception in their facility in downtown Springfield on Thursday evening, February 23, 2012. Museum president Jerrie Blakely gathered members of the museum's Boa [more]

7:08:01 AM First lady, pharaoh and dino-poop: Night at the Museum
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA

LEHI -- Minivans and cars lined the streets for two to three blocks, and more drivers just kept turning onto Center Street trying to park their family vehicles as close to the Hutchings Museum as possible for the fifth annual "Night at the Museum" .. [more]

4:03:52 AM Poland, US museum tussle over Auschwitz barracks
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

AP This undated photograph provided by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, shows a section of barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland Polish and US officials are engaged in talks to determine the fate of a sensitive objec [more]

4:03:52 AM "Oz" ruby slippers find their way home; major acquisition for Academy
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has acquired a pair of the iconic ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio led a group of "angel donors" whose gifts to the Acad [more]

1:55:21 AM 'Cindy Sherman' at Museum of Modern Art
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

There are several conclusions to be drawn from the Museum of Modern Art's magnificent if somewhat flawed survey of Cindy Sherman's brilliant career. But one of them is surely that reports of the death of the author have been greatly exaggerated. [more]

1:55:21 AM Bronx Museum Gets Venice Role
Wall Street Journal - USA

By JENNIFER MALONEY The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present an installation by Chelsea artist Sarah Sze in the US Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world, the museum announced Thursday. [more]

1:55:21 AM Pa. Museum Automaton Has Link to 'Hugo'
AssociatedPress -

Martin Scorcese's movie "Hugo," nominated for 11 Academy Awards including best picture, has sparked a wave of interest in a 210-year-old mechanical doll at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. (Feb. 22) Subscribe to the Associated Press: ... [more]

1:06:25 AM The museum for black America: a force for unity – or division?
Independent

Almost a century after the idea was first mooted by black veterans of the Civil War and almost half a century after the leader of the civil rights movement delivered his immortal "I have a Dream" speech, an African American museum is finally about to [more]

1:06:25 AM In budget cut, U of Northern Iowa to close museum
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

By Ryan J. Foley AP / February 23, 2012 IOWA CITY, Iowa—The University of Northern Iowa said Thursday it would close a 120-year-old campus natural history museum, trim subsidies for athletics and outsource campus printing services as part of a ... [more]



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