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11:01:40 PM Smithsonian museum explores the art of gaming
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

His love of and work with video games have led him to put together an exhibit about them at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “The Art of Video Games” takes visitors through the 40 years of video games. It includes interviews with early game ... [more]

11:01:40 PM Rubik's Cube Focus of Museum Exhibition
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Apr. 26, 2012 - It's a puzzle, a metaphor, a hit toy and soon it will be a museum exhibition. The Rubik's Cube is getting ready to celebrate it's 40th anniversary with a worldwide tour. (/Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: AP Top Stories 1: [more]

11:01:40 PM Maryhill Museum celebrates opening of new wing
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The Maryhill Museum of Art celebrates the opening of a new wing next month, after more than a year of construction. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. The Maryhill Museum of Art celebrates the opening of a new wing nex [more]

11:01:40 PM New Hardin museum in state-of-art facility
Washington Examiner (blog)

Big Horn County's new historical museum building in Hardin — the result of years of fundraising and long days of hard work — will be officially introduced to the public Sunday, April 29. At 13690 square feet, the intricately designed building will .. [more]

11:01:40 PM Director of Spokane museum fired
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Less than a year after he was hired, Forrest Rodgers had been fired as executive director of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. Less than a year after he was hired,  [more]

7:27:43 PM The Museum Of The Confederacy—Appomattox Opens
Civil War News - Tunbridge,Vermont,USA

Here it all began,” historian James I. “Bud” Robertson said at the start of his keynote address at the grand opening of the Museum of the Confederacy-Appomattox. He explained that Appomattox represented both the effective end of the Civil War and the [more]

7:27:43 PM Brooklyn Museum Director Duncan Cameron, 1972
WNYC - New York,NY,USA

Views on Art host Ruth Bowman discusses the Brooklyn Museum with its newly hired director, Duncan Cameron. Cameron served as director from 1971 to 1974. At the time of this interview (June 29, 1972), the Brooklyn Museum was facing financial ... [more]

7:27:43 PM UW Geological Museum Plans Reception Before Closing for Renovation
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA

April 26, 2012 — The University of Wyoming Geological Museum will close Monday, May 7, for its first significant renovation in decades. Before it closes for the summer's worth of work, however, the public has a chance to grab one last look at the ... [more]

7:27:43 PM Check out new-to-you places
Orlando Sentinel

We have so many events and museums and galleries in this area that I haven't been to all of them — and I'm pretty sure you haven't either. So, I'm revising my new year's resolutions to include going to at least one event or venue that I've missed. [more]

4:41:06 PM Italy's Maxxi museum faces possible closure
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By David Ng Italy's Maxxi museum, which opened just two years ago, has been hard hit by the country's economic problems, which have resulted in widespread cuts in cultural funding. Now the high-profile art museum, designed by architect Zaha Hadid, .. [more]

4:41:06 PM Salt Museum in Hutchinson notes 5th anniversary
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA

(WTW) — The Kansas Underground Salt Museum opened its doors — actually its elevator shaft — five years ago on May 1, and donors, board members, staff, volunteers and contributors through the years are being invited back for a "birthday party" on ... [more]

4:41:06 PM Metropolitan Museum Announces Live Streaming from Red Carpet of Costume ...
MarketWatch - USA

NEW YORK, Apr 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- For the first time in its history, red carpet arrivals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renowned Costume Institute Benefit will be live streamed online Monday, May 7, from 6:30 -- 8:30 pm, on the Vogue, .. [more]

4:41:06 PM Evansville museum to display cardboard art
The Courier-Journal - Palmyra,NY,USA

Weber is proud to return to Evansville this week with more than two dozen airy, voluminous cardboard creations for an exhibition in the Evansville Museum's Old Gallery. "There's probably no greater honor than to be offered a show in your hometown," s [more]

4:41:06 PM Do Not Be Cynical When the London Olympics Torch Wins the Design
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

mediabistro.com By Steve Delahoyde on April 26, 2012 12:00 PM Because we're good and gracious people, we're not going to cry foul on the Design Museum's Design of the Year prize, which just this week awarded its 2012 edition to the studio Barber Osge [more]

4:41:06 PM Museum showcases racist memorabilia
AssociatedPress -

It's meant to educate about race and prompt intelligent discussion. [more]

4:41:06 PM Oakland Museum showcases 1968 in glory, tragedy
San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco,CA,USA

Society, politics, war, the arts and pop culture get equal play in the vivid, 7000-square-foot exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California — appropriately, a “museum of the people” which opened in 1969 — including hundreds of artifacts, some ... [more]

2:34:55 PM Colorful Colorado equals colorful, new history museum
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA

The museum is located two blocks south of Civic Center Park, within walking distance of the 16th Street Mall, and near the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Public Library. History Colorado Center is one of 11 History Colorado sites. [more]

2:34:55 PM Italian Museum Director's Dramatic Anti-Austerity Bonfire Sparks
ARTINFO

ARTINFO by Reid Singer A week after he made good on his promise to begin burning the permanent collection of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Italy to protest the lack of arts funding, the actions of curator Antonio Manfredi have sent spa [more]

2:34:55 PM Pioneer Memorial Museum: Salt Lake's treasure house of artifacts and
Deseret News

Deseret News By Ray Boren As startling as the idea may seem, considering it is housed in a prominent colonnaded building at the top of Main Street, Salt Lake City's Pioneer Memorial Museum is something of a secret. Salt Lake City — As startling as th [more]

2:34:55 PM Sharjah Museums Department organizes training course to develop
AME Info - United Arab Emirates

AME Info Sharjah Museums Department (SMD) has organized a training course for 13 of its employees from various departments and museums as part of its series of training programmes to develop the management skills of its staff. The five-day programme  [more]

2:34:55 PM The quest to save local history
NorthJersey.com

But supporters say that even as they operate with limited funding, the key to museums' and historical societies' survival is to evolve, recruit younger members, choose artifacts wisely, adopt more programming and do more than provide a place filled . [more]

2:34:55 PM Bath's museums on alert as raiders eye treasures
Bath Chronicle - Bath,England,UK

Bath's museums packed with historic treasures are on high alert this week after a bizarre attempted break-in. The incident at the Museum of East Asian Art in the city centre came hard on the heels of the theft of Chinese works of art worth millions o [more]

11:52:50 AM Ward Museum features signature international art event Friday
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach,DE,USA

Artists for years have tried to capture these wildlife scenes in mediums from wood to canvas, and many of their works eventually found a home at Salisbury's Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art. This week, the museum is set to feature its signature art event, [more]

11:52:50 AM Newly renamed Port Townsend museum to celebrate this weekend
Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News - Port Angeles,WA,USA

A ribbon-cutting for the renamed museum will be Saturday. By Charlie Bermant PORT TOWNSEND — The newly christened Jefferson County Museum of Art and History will host its opening party this weekend and unveil its inaugural art exhibition under the ne [more]

9:14:28 AM New exhibit at La Quinta Museum highlights women
My Desert - Palm Springs,CA,USA

La Quinta Museum director Anne Phillips surveys the medical artifacts on loan from the Southern California Medical Museum in Riverside as part of the latest exhibit, “Ladies of Lincoln's Era.” Nicole C. Brambila/MyDesert When: 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday . [more]

7:22:33 AM Museum aims to help popular science fully evolve in the Philippines
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

Yet as the curator of The Mind Museum, the Philippines first modern, purpose-built science museum, her work now is a lot more palpable and potentially contentious than her newspaper column. "So far I've had a few individuals with their own personal . [more]

7:22:33 AM Wright Museum to screen Brewster-Douglass documentary
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

We explore that there is life there, people living there, and people who fought to stay there," he says of his 27-minute film, which screens tonight at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt came to Detro [more]

7:22:33 AM Museum of Contemporary Art looks back at the '80s
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

A group of young people clustered around a video monitor at the entrance to the Museum of Contemporary Art's survey of the art of the 1980s. Playing was "Wild Style," the rawest, coolest movie ever made about rap and graffiti. Charlie Ahearn shot it  [more]

7:22:33 AM Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture fires executive director
The Spokesman Review

The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture fired its executive director on Tuesday, less than a year after recruiting him to Spokane. Forrest B. Rodgers confirmed that the executive committee of the museum's board terminated him on Tuesday. [more]

7:22:33 AM Racism museum sparks emotion
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA

(WOOD) - A museum showcasing thousands of racist memorabilia artifacts will open on Ferris State University's Campus on Thursday. The new Jim Crow Musuem of Racist Memorabilia, located in the basement of the university's library, ... [more]

7:22:33 AM Museum shows instructors' work in Ocotillo
discussed ...

By NEAL V. HITCH Special to this Newspaper OCOTILLO — Bernardo Olmedo began the first-ever artist reception at the first-ever art exhibit at the Imperial Valley Desert Museum on Saturday night. “I have driven past the Desert Museum in Ocotillo a doze [more]

5:22:14 AM Norman asks state attorney general to freeze museum foundation assets
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA

Ralph Norman has asked the state Attorney General's Office to freeze the assets of a foundation created to support York County's museums while sharing his questions about the foundation's financial history with investigators. “I'm going to continue t [more]

5:22:14 AM FREE SPEECH ZONE | May is Museum Month in Minnesota
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis-St. Paul,Minnesota,USA

By Mary Treacy, Free Speech Zone Minnesotans are museum enthusiasts – so much so we will be celebrating May 2012 as Minnesota Museums Month. – the first in the nation, it is said. And we will be hosting thousands of museum professionals and supporter [more]

1:19:32 AM Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College announces appointment of new
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily Purchase College President Thomas J. Schwarz announced today that Paola Morsiani, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will become the seventh director of the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, effective Jul [more]

1:19:32 AM Klok & Peel Museum Asten reopens with completely renovated and expanded
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily With the ringing of a bell, specially cast for her, Queen Beatrix officially opened Klok & Peel Museum Asten tuesday morning (April 24). Immediately after the opening, Astens Mayor P. Grem appointed museum chairman Harry van der Loo as Knig [more]

12:48:26 AM National History Museum in Seychelles redesigned
eTurboNews - Haleiwa,HI,USA

Rich in spatial character, the National History Museum, located at the heart of Victoria in the imposing building of the National Library, re-opened on April 16, 2012 with a new collection of charts, maps, expedition journals, and photographs of Fren [more]

12:48:26 AM 'Iconoclass' makes first showing in 35 years at Museum of Florida Art
Orlando Sentinel

By Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel Arts Writer Harold Garde's "Iconoclass" becomes a signature piece for the Museum of Florida Art, as this new exterior sign shows. (Provided / Apr 25, 2012) The Museum of Florida Art has a vibrant new look inside a [more]



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