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11:27:46 PM DuPage Historical Museum to Open Year-Long Civil War Lecture Series
Hubble

The DuPage County Historical Museum opens its year-long lecture series on the Civil War Wednesday. On Wednesday, April 20 from 7-8pm the DuPage County Historical Museum, located at 102 E. Wesley Street in Wheaton, will begin a year-long lecture serie [more]

11:09:41 PM Don't Believe the Hype: "Art in the Streets" Is a Fun Ride, But No
ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

ARTINFO By Doug Harvey LOS ANGELES—One would have to be a true believer in the equally far-fetched hypothetical purity of either museums or graffiti art to get really hot under the collar about Jeffrey Deitch's MOCA magnum opus "Art in the Streets. . [more]

9:31:27 PM Catholics Defile Defiled Piss Christ: Meta
Death and Taxes

And I can imagine it's especially offensive when someone pees on your idol, takes a picture and then displays it at art museums around the world to critical acclaim. That has to be frustrating. But despite popular belief (see: Muslim response to Terr [more]

8:26:36 PM Johnny Cash's Childhood Home to Be Renovated and Turned Into a Museum
Artistdirect.com - Santa Monica,CA,USA

Arkansas State University purchased Johnny Cash's childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas with plans to restore it and turn it into a museum! They will fund the restoration, renovation and flipping thanks to the inaugural Johnny Cash Music Festival. ... [more]

8:26:36 PM Michigan Museum to Display Kensington Resident, Former Congressman's
Artifacts

Patch.com William S. Broomfield will be preserved at the the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm in Michigan. By Tiffany Dziurman Stozicki | Email the author | 2:27pm Newly elected US Rep. William S. Broomfield (right) meets President Dwight D. [more]

8:26:36 PM Tagger vandalizes Little Tokyo Gold Line station; ties to graffiti art
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times A tagger has vandalized the Little Tokyo Gold Line station across from the "Art in the Streets" exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary museum, transit deputies said Tuesday. Workers from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority quickly [more]

8:26:36 PM New exhibit for historic museum
Tampa Tribune

Jane Messenger admires the new collection of Mayan artifacts Saturday afternoon at the May-Stringer Heritage Museum in Brooksville. Donated by retired archaeologist Bill Rosst, the collection features ancient Mayan masks, pottery and rugs. ... [more]

8:07:38 PM Arts Post It: Galliano Fired Again; Museum Attendance Up
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

(WWD) Checked Out: The Washington Haggadah, the Library of Congress' illuminated medieval manuscript that tells the story of the Passover Seder, is now on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through June. (Washington Post) Remembered:  [more]

8:07:38 PM Solomons Appointed Interim Director of Telfair Museums
Savannah Tribune

Cathy Solomons The Board of Trustees of Telfair Museums announced the unanimous appointment of Cathy Edel Solomons as the museum's interim director while it undertakes a national search for the next director of the institution. ... [more]

8:07:38 PM Connecticut Museum Buff To Speak In Suffield
Hartford Courant - United States

A maven of Connecticut museums will visit the Kent Memorial Library Thursday evening to talk about his travels around the state. West Hartford resident Steve Wood has set out on a mission to visit the more than 500 museums in the state — from the mos [more]

5:43:59 PM Government-Financed Boston Tea Party Museum Skyrockets in Cost
FOX News - USA

A new museum meant to honor the original Boston Tea Partiers is drawing scrutiny from the new wave of anti-tax activists, after the government-financed project skyrocketed in price. The Boston Herald reports that the projected cost of the museum has  [more]

5:43:59 PM French museum reopens after crucifix art attacked
CBC News - Canada

Museum curator Jean-Marc Ferrari shows the damage US artist Andres Serrano's artwork Immersion (Piss Christ) suffered in Sunday's attack at Avignon's Lambert Collection Museum of Contemporary Art. (Claude Paris/Associated Press) A French museum has . [more]

5:43:59 PM New Museum Presents Cronocaos an Exhibition by OMA
Broadway World - Monsey,NY,USA

The New Museum is pleased to present "Cronocaos," an exhibition about the increasingly urgent topic of preservation in architecture and urbanism, by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and organized by the New Museum. First presented at the 2010 Venice Biennale, ... [more]

5:43:59 PM First New York Museum Exhibition Devoted to the Hindu God Vishnu
GlobeNewsWire (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA

This large-scale exhibition includes Indian sculpture, paintings, textiles, and ritual objects that range in date from the fourth century ce to the twentieth century and will be on view June 24 through October 2, 2011, at the Brooklyn Museum. ... [more]

4:31:58 PM Golisano Children's Museum of Naples raises over $250K at Nature's Element
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

Naples Daily News The Golisano Children's Museum of Naples (C'mon) benefit with Saks Fifth Avenue's Donna Karan and Coomi, “Nature's Element”, was a huge success, raising over $250000 to support the Museum's capital campaign. On Tuesday, April 12, 20 [more]

4:31:58 PM Two Lynchburg museums offering free admission
Lynchburg News and Advance

The Lynchburg Museum at 901 Court St. will also be open free of charge from 10 am to 4 pm A new exhibit, Lynchburg at War: 1861-1865, explores how the Civil War affected the city and its people. Rare artifacts and photographs linked to Lynchburg have [more]

3:04:20 PM Boston breaks ground on new Tea Party museum
Boston Herald - United States

By AP BOSTON - Boston is breaking ground on a new museum marking one of the most famous events in American history. Mayor Thomas Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick are scheduled at attend a groundbreaking Tuesday for a Boston Tea Party museum. ... [more]

3:04:20 PM Civil Rights museum opens in Great Barrington
Boston Herald - United States

By AP GREAT BARRINGTON - A museum focusing on early civil rights history in Western Massachusetts has opened. The WEB Du Bois Center in Great Barrington recently unveiled the Museum of Civil Rights Pioneers and will feature items related to the ... [more]

3:04:20 PM Jaguar Legends Day at Simeone Museum to Feature Racing Great Brian Redman
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

The Legends of Motorsport Demonstration Day on May 7th begins at Noon with a presentation in the main museum area by Dr. Simeone, concentrating on the origins and legacy of Jaguar's racing heritage. The Museum's 1953 C-Type Jaguar will be discussed . [more]

3:04:20 PM Titanic exhibit now coming to Grand Rapids in 2013
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

AP PHOTO ASSOCIATED PRESS An exhibition focused on the Titanic that originally was to arrive at Grand Rapids Public Museum next year now will open there in February 2013. The scheduling change is connected to last week's announcement that The Henry . [more]

2:37:52 PM Writers Museum founder -- still looking for a home -- wowed by state's
MinnPost.com - Minneapolis,MN,USA

MinnPost.com By Joe Kimball | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Malcolm O'Hagan has a grand dream of an American Writers Museum, and he's traveling the country trying to drum up support. He was in the Twin Cities over the weekend, checking us out. And he liked [more]

1:04:14 PM Woodward, Bradlee receive standing ovation at Nixon museum appearance
Poynter.org - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

by Julie Moos Published Apr. 19, 2011 7:10 am Updated Apr. 19, 2011 7:14 am A crowd of about 1000 people stood to honor The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee when they appeared Monday at the Nixon Presidential Library in California. ... [more]

1:04:14 PM Titanic exhibit coming to Henry Ford in 2012, Grand Rapids in 2013
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA

AP An exhibition focused on the Titanic that originally was to arrive at Grand Rapids Public Museum next year now will open in February 2013. The scheduling change is connected to last week's announcement that The Henry Ford in Dearborn will host ... [more]

1:01:26 PM Colonial Williamsburg adds some bounce
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

Colonial Williamsburg offers interactive programs with hands-on activities such as weaving and cabinet-making; a street theater program about the Revolutionary War; and storytelling, ghost tours, and visits to area museums. Its Spring Bounce Package  [more]

10:37:25 AM Bennington, Vt., museum hosting big Grandma Moses exhibit
The Republic

AP BENNINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont museum that boasts the largest public collection of Grandma Moses paintings is putting on a major display to show off some of them. "Grandma Moses and the 'Primitive' Tradition," at the Bennington Museum in Bennington,  [more]

9:20:16 AM Green energy featured at Columbia festival
Beaumont Enterprise

Earth Fest 2011 is taking place Tuesday at the Columbia Museum of Art's Boyd Plaza. There are environmental information displays, music, food and a fleet of energy efficient vehicles. The University of South Carolina is also displaying its H2 hydroge [more]

7:22:26 AM Vandals damage divisive photo at French exhibit
The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Police questioned witnesses on Monday in their search for a man who took a hammer to a controversial photograph of a crucifix bathed in urine at an art exhibition in an Avignon museum. The modern art museum, the Collection Lambert, ... [more]

6:29:08 AM los angeles.
Art Newspaper - UK

According to the associate curator, Roger Gastman, who has helped co-organise the exhibition with Deitch, and his colleague, Aaron Rose, the work included should be appreciated only for its artistic merit: “This work deserves to be in museums. ... [more]

6:00:10 AM Former first lady looks back on the April 19, 1995, bombing of Oklahoma
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

NewsOK.com Laura Bush shares how the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum remembers the past and educates in the present and for the future. BY BRYAN PAINTER bpainter@opubco.com Leave a comment People talk about how far the blast was felt April 1 [more]

6:00:10 AM Backers pitch St. Paul as site of writers museum
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA

Coleman, acquisitions librarian for the Minnesota Historical Society, spent the weekend hosting Malcolm O'Hagan, founder and president of the American Writers Museum Foundation. "This is a huge project, but I have every confidence the museum is going [more]

5:18:14 AM Traveling museum exhibits draw attention, visitors
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

Visitors use the pendulum drawing table, part of a traveling exhibit owned by the Oklahoma Museum Network. Photo provided by Oklahoma Museum Network They're not torture devices. The machines are all for fun and education, explained Marshall, ... [more]

5:04:26 AM Tea Party museum brewing tourism boost in Hub
Boston Herald

By Christine McConville Boston's new Tea Party museum — with its newly acquired wooden tea crate — will kick off a new round of tourism spending, the likes of which the city hasn't seen in years, according to one tourism official. ... [more]

3:30:54 AM Los Angeles County Museum of Art hits the market
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Now Angelenos will have their chance to see Christian Marclay's video-art hit "The Clock," which the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has just purchased as part of an annual fundraising and collecting event. Through this event, known as Collectors .. [more]

2:42:41 AM Museum lost a cornerstone
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

Presenting the 40th annual report of the Taihape Historical and Museum Society, chairman Trevor Prime paid homage to the late Kay Clark whose death was huge loss to the society. ''Kay was a dedicated and exceptional committee member, with the Card .. [more]

1:54:10 AM Egypt archaeologist Zahi Hawass faces criticisms about his job, ties to
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post The exhibition of Egyptian material in foreign museums requires his approval, and those exhibitions can be a cash cow for blockbuster-hungry institutions. But conflicting statements about the damage done at the renowned but dilapidate [more]

1:54:10 AM Franklin Institute gives planes to Naval Air Station Wildwood
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA

The Lower Township museum's staff will restore the artifacts for use in the exhibit on the science of flight. The two museums have an ongoing partnership. In the past, the institute has donated displays explaining the science of flight and exhibits . [more]

12:41:16 AM Long-awaited veterans museum opens in Anchorage
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AP Hundreds attended the grand opening Sunday at the private, nonprofit museum, which has been 10 years in the making. Suellyn Wright Novak, a retired Air Force colonel who is president of the museum, says Alaska has the highest percentage of veteran [more]

12:41:16 AM Children's Museum in Myrtle Beach broken into
South Carolina Now

The Children's Museum in Myrtle Beach is boarded up after an apparently burglary over the weekend. By Julie Roy MYRTLE BEACH - The Children's Museum of South Carolina located on North Kings Highway was broken into over the weekend. ... [more]



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