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9:16:39 PM Nanning to host International Museum Day
China Daily

By Liu Xiangrui ( chinadaily.com.cn) China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage on Thursday announced that Nanning will host a nationwide celebration of the annual International Museum Day on May 18. Like host cities in previous years, Nanning [more]

6:29:25 PM Mother's Day at the museums in Grand Rapids offer new things to see and
MLive.com - MI,USA

The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com Moms are celebrated every day at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum, but from 12 noon to 5 pm Sunday, GRCM would like to express its gratitude and appreciation of mothers by offering free admission for all moms. The [more]

6:29:25 PM Harlem becomes magnet for wealthier New Yorkers
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

Apartment prices are on the rise again in Harlem as the historic area increasingly becomes a magnet for wealthier New Yorkers and topnotch attractions like the Museum for African Art. A luxury penthouse in One Museum Mile — the same building at 1280  [more]

6:29:25 PM Speed Museum offers Free Day of Admission[Visual Art]
[Colleges]

by Terri Shaw On Saturday, May 19, 2012, The Speed Art Museum is offering Free Admission. It is International Art Museum Day and The Speed Museum wants you to celebrate with them. This free admission will extend to the Art Sparks Interactive Gallery  [more]

6:29:25 PM Hunter Museum's summer exhibit features rock icons
Nooga.com

The image is a pigment print on watercolor paper, measuring 46 by 53 inches, from the exhibition Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography, now on view at the Hunter Museum of American Art through Aug. 12. (Photo: Hunter Museum of Americ [more]

4:57:18 PM Olympics come to Bruce Museum
The Hour - Norwalk,CT,USA

By Keith Loria With the Olympic Summer Games set to open in London on July 27, the Bruce Museum wanted to bring some of that sporting excitement to Connecticut, and will feature the exhibit, "The Olympic Games: Art, Culture & Sport" from May 12 to Se [more]

4:57:18 PM 'Schiaparelli and Prada, Impossible Conversations' opens at Metropolitan ...
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA

By Samantha Critchell AP Elsa Schiaparelli evening dresses from the 1930s are are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. NEW YORK — NEW YORK — Like bookends, Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada sit at opposite ends of a long, elegant table for [more]

4:57:18 PM Seattle Asian Art Museum Contest Winner to Visit Uzbekistan with MIR
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

San Francisco Chronicle (press release) MIR Corporation is offering a chance for Seattle Asian Art Museum visitors to win a trip for two to visit Uzbekistan on a small group tour entitled "Silk Route Odyssey: Caravan Across Uzbekistan". For contest d [more]

4:57:18 PM Museum unveils newly acquired Vincent van Gogh watercolor of pollard willow
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The Van Gogh Museum unveiled the painting Thursday, the first addition in five years to its world-famous collection of works by the postimpressionist master. At a time when the artist was still honing his skills in perspective, anatomy and proportion [more]

4:57:18 PM Authorities search home, yard of alleged Conn. mobster probed in Gardner ...
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

“The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum does not have any comments about the Robert Gentile case,” the museum said in a statement. “The Museum continues to offer a $5 million reward for information leading to the recovery of the artworks in good conditi [more]

4:57:18 PM Little Museum Of Dublin U2 Exhibit Shows Band In Early Stages
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The Little Museum of Dublin is displaying a collection of pictures by photographer Patrick Blocklebank, documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of Dublin before the Irish band became the international supergroup of today. [more]

2:32:18 PM Live chat: what next for museums?
Guardian - UK

Arts Council England has announced the nine successful applicants to the Museum development fund, a significant part of ACE's framework of support for the development of English regional museums between now and 2015. ACE is looking to invest around . [more]

2:32:18 PM Meadows Museum to Offer Free Admission on Art Museum Day, May 18
Dallas Art News - Dallas,Texas,USA

The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University announced today that it will offer free admission on May 18, as well as a guided tour at 11:00 am, as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors' (AAMD) Art Museum Day, coinciding with ... [more]

2:32:18 PM New Britain Museum of American Art presents Oscar Berger's The
Presidents ...

Foothills Media Group NEW BRITAIN — The New Britain Museum of American Art is pleased to embrace the spirit of election year through the display of presidential caricatures by Oscar Berger (1901-1997). Beginning on May 8 and continuing through July 1 [more]

11:21:32 AM McComb museum to buy 2 RR cars from Hammond museum
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA

The train display at the McComb Railroad Museum will add two cars now at a Louisiana children's museum to its railroad display in October. One of the cars, a postal service car, is reportedly one of only three remaining in the country. [more]

11:21:32 AM Museum unveils newly acquired Vincent van Gogh water color of pollard willow
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

AMSTERDAM — The Van Gogh Museum has unveiled its latest addition by the tormented artist — an 1882 water color of a pollard willow under a cloudy gray sky from his early Dutch period. The museum bought the painting at auction in London earlier this . [more]

11:21:32 AM Durham's Hill Building could become boutique hotel and museum
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Greenberg said 21c also received generous incentives packages on its other projects in Louisville, Cincinnati and Bentonville, where its hotel is being built near the recently opened Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The company recently ... [more]

10:51:28 AM Bucks tourism grants surpass $1 million mark
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Bucks County's museums are bringing in traveling exhibits, events at its historic sites are being publicized, and other attractions are getting much-needed funding, thanks to a tourism grant program that since 2008 has handed out more than $1 million [more]

10:51:28 AM AHA! children's museum looking for new space
Lancaster Eagle Gazette

A Hands-On Adventure, A Children's Museum, in Lancaster. / Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette If you have a suggestion for a new site, call Kimberly Murray at (740) 653-1010. LANCASTER -- One of the five museums in downtown Lancaster is looking for a new ho [more]

8:00:06 AM Bluegrass Museum's 3-Day ROMP Fest Attracts National Talent
SurfKY News

OWENSBORO, KY (5/9/12) - A-list bluegrass artists will converge on Yellow Creek Park in Owensboro this June for The International Bluegrass Museum's 9 th annual ROMP: Bluegrass Roots and Branches Festival. ROMP is the largest annual fundraising event [more]

8:00:06 AM 3 museums to shut for entire NATO summit weekend
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Due to the closing of Lake Shore Drive early Saturday, May 19, until the Monday, May 21, evening rush hour, as well as parking restrictions at the Museum Campus, Shedd and Adler will not be open to the public, officials announced today. [more]

8:00:06 AM Santa Fe Children's Museum To Honor Lost Real-life Super Hero
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

PR Web (press release) The Santa Fe Children's Museum is changing plans for its Annual Gala scheduled for May 19 in memory of George Cowan, an honoree for this year's event, who passed away Friday, April 20. The reception for Dr. Cowan is set for 5 t [more]

4:41:35 AM Excruciating details emerge on Jewish ghettos
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

1941-1942 photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, people walk on a commercial street in the Lublin ghetto near a sign forbidding entry, in Warsaw, Poland. Despite all the Holocaust writings, more news is emerging about 1000 ... [more]

4:41:35 AM Chicago museum visits one NATO casualty
MarketWatch - USA

By Tim Rostan CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — The museum at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the biggest-ever Roy Lichtenstein retrospective will only just have opened to the public when the NATO summit rolls into town, announced Wednesday that it will .. [more]

4:41:35 AM Local AF museum a top site
Springfield News Sun - Springfield,OH,USA

Ty Greenlees/Chief Photogrpaher The National Museum of the United States Air Force attracted 1.2 million visitors last year. By Cornelius Frolik, Staff Writer 9:53 PM Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Ohio's tourism industry in 2011 had its best year on record, [more]

4:41:35 AM St. Petersburg Museum of History to get Guinness world record baseball
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

Tampabay.com Schrader, who holds the Guinness record for the world's largest collection of autographed baseballs, just might be that for the St. Petersburg Museum of History. Plans are afoot to move all 4609 of his baseballs — most secured in a room- [more]

1:12:29 AM IOC Announces the Olympic Museum Joins the Google Art Project
Midland Daily News - Midland,MI,USA

The Olympic Museum has become the first Swiss partner of the Google Art Project, and is displaying over 100 of its objects on the site http://www.googleartproject.com, thereby offering art lovers and Olympic enthusiasts all over the world a virtual . [more]

1:12:29 AM Chicago museums to close 3 days for NATO summit
CBS News - USA

Representatives for the museums say they support and welcome the summit. But they say schedules were adjusted because of each organization's "close proximity" to McCormick Place, the site of the summit. All three institutions also are near the protes [more]

1:12:29 AM Bruce Museum exhibition examines the art and culture of the Games
Greenwich Citizen - Greenwich,CT,USA

Photo: Carson T. Zullinger/Contributed / CT Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, Plate 163, (1887), on display starting tomorrow at the Bruce Museum, illustrates the "Jumping, standing broad jump." Photo: Paul Mutino/Contributed Photo / CT Also on [more]



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