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11:26:25 PM Downsizing In a Burst of Glory
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

"Quilts": At the American Folk Art Museum, a show of quilts from the collection. More Photos » By ROBERTA SMITH The American Folk Art Museum's radiant quilt exhibition will probably be the last of its kind at its unwelcoming, decade-old building on . [more]

11:26:25 PM Women's role in rock
USA Today

Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is opening a new exhibit that will illustrate the roles women have played in rock and roll, from its inception through today. Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power will highlight the firsts, the best [more]

11:26:25 PM Jewish museum offers insight into Gertrude Stein
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

An exhibition devoted to the Stein collections, which includes Picasso's great Gertrude portrait, opens this week at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories," which premiered last week at the nearby Contemporary . [more]

11:04:41 PM Museums offer free admission May 18
Ocean City Today - Ocean City,MD,USA

(May 13, 2011) In recognition of International Museum Day, a number of Worcester County museums will offer free admission all day on Wednesday, May 18. The International Council of Museums launched International Museum Day in 1977. ... [more]

9:40:36 PM Fashion Meets Music at New 'Women Who Rock' Exhibit
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

On May 13, 2011, Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum raises the curtain on the much-anticipated new exhibit, "Women Who Rock," which explores more than 60 female recording artists who have changed the face of music from the 1920s throug [more]

9:28:44 PM Smithsonian shares its treasures and tackles the questions of a Latino
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) The Obama administration requested $861.5 million in fiscal 2012 for the Smithsonian, most of which goes to salaries and expenses but includes $125 million to begin construction of the National Museum of African American Histor [more]

8:53:03 PM Museum calendar: P. Seth Magosky Museum of Victorian Life in Joliet
Chicago Sun-Times

Call (630) 844-7844 or visit aurora.edu/museum/ddg1.htm. Schoenherr Art Gallery: “Theatrical Models” featuring Peter Wexler, to May 15. Free. Hours are 8 am to midnight Mondays through Thursdays, 8 am to 8 pm Fridays, 9 am to 5:30 pm Saturdays and no [more]

8:53:03 PM Las Vegas mayor marks opening of park featuring historic neon signs
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The $2 million Neon Boneyard Park features a display of the museum's neon signs collected from historic Las Vegas buildings. Goodman will also oversee the ceremonial groundbreaking for a new visitor's center at the adjacent Neon Museum. ... [more]

8:53:03 PM Speed Art Museum adds board and trustees
Louisville Courier Journal - Louisville,KY,USA

The Speed Art Museum announced it has created a new board of governors and added four new members to its board of trustees. The moves come after the board of trustees voted last year to revise the museum's bylaws to allow for the election of voluntee [more]

5:52:07 PM The Met's Narcissistic New Outpost
New Yorker - New York,NY,USA

Good luck to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which in 2013 will annex the home, these last forty-seven years, of the Whitney Museum of American Art when the Whitney moves to new digs, by Renzo Piano, that are now being built in the meatpacking distri [more]

5:52:07 PM A Glow From Within and on the Surface
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Tibetan Collection Centennial Exhibitions The figure of a monk in the Buddhist Gelug religious order is among the works at the Newark Museum. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. . [more]

5:52:07 PM SALISBURY NEWS: Ward Museum to launch Eastern Shore heritage book
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach,DE,USA

This culture is reflected in local arts institutions like the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, an outreach of SU. The Ward Museum, with its roots in the region's decoy carving tradition, is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and promoting traditional . [more]

5:52:07 PM ArtsBeat: Met Museum Sues Man Who Bought a Painting It Wasn't Selling
Diseases

By FELICIA LEE In chapter two of a long story that is growing longer, the Metropolitan Museum of art filed suit Tuesday in US District Court in Manhattan seeking possession of a painting now in the hands of Robert Wylde, a British collector. ... [more]

5:52:07 PM Ring stolen from Camden Yards museum
The Life of Kings - Baltimore,MD,USA

In the past 30 years, only two items had been stolen from the Babe Ruth and Sports Legends Museum, and both were recovered. Officials at the Camden Yards museum are hoping for similar luck after a ring was swiped last week from a display case, ... [more]

5:11:36 PM Antwerp's new museum: Tall tales
Economist - UK

IN PHOTOGRAPHS, Antwerp's newest museum, with its helter-skelter stack of enormous cantilevered boxes, looks worryingly exhibitionistic. In person, its expanse of red Indian sandstone and wavy ribbons of glass is beautiful, and not crackpot at all. . [more]

5:11:36 PM Will James Cuno change the Getty, or will the Getty change James Cuno?
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

In recent years, museums, collectors and dealers have been linked to the black market in recently looted antiquities, forcing the return of hundreds of ancient objects to Italy and Greece. As described in Ralph Frammolino's and my forthcoming book, . [more]

3:28:32 PM Heist Reveals Lapses in Chinese Museum's Security
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG — A bungled art heist this week at the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing may not have been worthy of the Pink Panther, with the police quickly claiming to have found the suspect, but the episode has nonetheles [more]

3:28:32 PM Canadarm's home up in the air: space agency
CBC News - Canada

The Canadian Press reported Thursday that after Canadarm's final mission aboard Endeavour concludes later this month, it will find a new home at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa. Stephen Quick, director general of the Ottawa museum, ... [more]

2:40:06 PM Berkshires' myriad museums, galleries leave lasting impression
Boston Herald - United States

Here's some great art galleries and museums to check out, running the gamut of very old to very weirdly new, and most of them located along the conveniently situated Route 7, which runs north/south along the Berkshires ridge. [more]

1:59:27 PM New Museum Worth a Trip to St. Petersburg
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA

Patrons admire the painting, "Portrait of My Dead Brother" by Salvador Dali on display in the collection galleries at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. By Jeff Kline Visiting art museums has never been high on my list of things to do in my spare tim [more]

12:04:53 PM Oneida Indian Nation presents $1 million donation to National Museum of
Syracuse Post Standard - Syracuse,NY,USA

Syracuse.com By Alaina Potrikus / The Post-Standard The Oneida Nation Makes $1-million Donation to the Smithsonian National Museum The Oneida Nation made a one million dollar donation to the Smithsonian National Museum on Wednesday May 11, 2011. ... [more]

12:04:53 PM Museums Month: Inside the Military Communications and Electronics Museum
EMC Frontenac

For over 40 years the Military Communications and Electronics Museum, located at 95 Craftsman Blvd., has been a fixture in the local community. "I've stumbled onto a lot of people who have been here for the first time but have lived here for years, . [more]

12:04:53 PM Photo Gallery: Cars So Stunning, They're in a Museum
Wired News - USA

By Sam Smith Every so often, great cars find their way into non-automotive museums. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, for example, has three in its collection, including a Cisitalia and a Jaguar E-Type. Art museums around the world have showcased [more]

10:21:05 AM Museum Puts Belgium's Antwerp on Cultural Map
ABC News - United States

On Friday, it will have a museum to match. Built on the docks of a once-derelict neighborhood, the MAS museum hosts the treasures that tall ships brought in from around the globe for centuries. And the audacious, sandstone-and-glass tower has already [more]

10:21:05 AM Colleagues praise museum namesake Weis for generosity
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA

Colleagues and friends of Leonard Weis, the namesake of the Weis Earth Science Museum in Menasha, remembered him this week as a brilliant man and a generous benefactor. Weis, a University of Wisconsin System associate professor of geology and geograp [more]

9:30:22 AM Ottawa museum to house original Canadarm
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada

By PETER RAKOBOWCHUK The Canadian Press MONTREAL — The original Canadarm's new home on Earth will be the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, The Canadian Press has learned. The Canadian technological marvel grabbed the world's attention when  [more]

8:36:26 AM Cayuga Museum explores Civil War with new exhibit
Auburn Citizen

4 The Cayuga Museum of History & Art will debut a special exhibit this weekend to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the bloodiest conflict in American history. The purpose of “The Cost of Freedom: Cayuga County and the Civil War” exhibit, ... [more]

8:36:26 AM Police officers get in free to national Crime and Punishment museum; part
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post By AP, WASHINGTON — Current and retired police officers are receiving free admission to the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington. The offer, which is good through Tuesday, is part of National Police Week. The museum o [more]

3:32:16 AM Museum theft raises alarm
China View, Beijing, China

BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Museum burglars bring to mind a Sean Connery type sneaking through a ceiling. Museum security was usually thought to be so good that those looking to steal art would be forced to come up with ever more elaborate plans.  [more]

1:34:20 AM Oneida Indian Nation donates $1 million to Museum of the American Indian
Oneida Dispatch

Oneida Dispatch By MATT POWERS ONEIDA – Oneida Nation Representative and CEO of Nation Enterprises Ray Halbritter and members of the Nation's Council presented a $1 million check to Kevin Gover, director of the Museum of the American Indian in Washin [more]

1:23:12 AM Purse Snatcher Embarrasses Chinese Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG — A thief hid in the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City after closing time on Sunday night and stole nine 20th-century gold purses encrusted with jewels from a temporary exhibition, embarrassed Chinese officials sai [more]



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