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News From Tuesday, May 15, 2012
11:49:51 PM New Delay in Opening African Art Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

For the fifth time in three years, the Museum for African Art has been forced to delay opening its new home at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, in East Harlem, as it continues to work to raise the money to finish the project. [more]

11:49:51 PM American Folk Art Museum to Offer Exhibition at Seaport With Museum of
American ...

New York Times (blog) By ROBIN POGREBIN Having survived a near-death experience last fall, the American Folk Art Museum will present an exhibition starting June 20 at the South Street Seaport Museum with the Museum of the City of New York, which now  [more]

11:49:51 PM Bruce Museum celebrates spring with arts fest, Olympics exhibition
Danbury News Times

An archaic Greek Panathenaic prize amphora, about 525-500 BCE, in terracotta, in one of the treasures on view in a new Olympics exhibit at the Bruce Museum, which is hosting its 27th annual outdoor crafts festival May 19-20. [more]

11:49:51 PM Asian Art Museum exhibits 'Phantoms of Asia'
San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco,CA,USA

Eye-catching Choi Jeong Hwa's larger-than-life Breathing Flower in Civic Center Plaza is part of the Asian Art Museum's new exhibit “Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past.” A big, pioneering exhibition is turning the Asian Art Museum inside [more]

11:49:51 PM Run by: Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
BBC Sport - UK

Fully refurbished after a multimillion pound redevelopment, the new displays showcase the collections and collectors Show more… that have helped RAMM to become one of Britain's finest regional museums. They tell the story of Exeter and Devon from the [more]

11:49:51 PM Jay Z should use his platform to better hip hop
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Jay-Z held a press conference with Mayor Michael Nutter on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Monday, May 14, 2012. He will headline the Budweiser "Made In America" festival in Philadelphia Labor Day Weekend. [more]

10:06:27 PM Our museums are thriving, but for how much longer?
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The shortlist drawn up by the Arts Fund for Museum of the Year covers as broad a reach of the country as you could wish: Scotland, Devon, Surrey and Yorkshire. How's that to counter the allegations by local whingers that “it all happens in London”? [more]

10:06:27 PM Milwaukee Art Museum Fights for Custody of Saarinen-Designed Building
ARTINFO

ARTINFO by Janelle Zara The Milwaukee Art Museum and Milwaukee County War Memorial, a Midwestern complex by two master architects of their respective times — Santiago Calatrava and Eero Saarinen — is planning a long-overdue $15 million overhaul that  [more]

10:06:27 PM Museums Open Day 2012
Vox Online News

International Museums Day on Saturday 19th May, 2012. The international theme for this year is "Museums in a Changing World". We live in a world where both cultures and lifestyles are faced with rapid changes. Museums allow us to obtain a perspective [more]

10:06:27 PM Holland Museum offers free admission May 18
HollandSentinel.com - Holland,MI,USA

By LB Blackwell In honor of International Museum Day, Holland Museum will offer free admission from 10 am to 5 pm Friday, May 18. International Museum Day is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, with over 30000 museums worldwide recognizing th [more]

6:46:53 PM Tampa baseball museum planned for Al Lopez's home
Brandon News and Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA

By MIKE SALINERO | The Tampa Tribune A museum dedicated to Tampa's rich baseball history is coming to Ybor City and could eventually be housed in Baseball Hall of Famer Al Lopez's family home. Members of the Ybor City Museum Society on Wednesday will [more]

6:46:53 PM VintageTEK, museum of Tektronix alumni, seeks to ID thousands of old photos
OregonLive.com

Tek eventually discarded the pictures and they ended up in the hands of VintageTEK, the museum company alumni opened in Beaverton last year. Volunteers have been laboriously scanning the old negatives to post them online in hopes of identifying some  [more]

6:46:53 PM Ecuador finds huge trove of antiquities at Washington museum
Fox News

Quito – More than 3000 Ecuadorian archaeological finds including the most impressive works of the Manteño civilization are kept in the storerooms of a Washington museum, from which the government in Quito said it wants them removed so people can have [more]

6:46:53 PM Centennial Celebration of Mark Twain Museum at noon today
Hannibal Courier Post - Hannibal,MO,USA

Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum Curator Henry Sweets adjusts one of the posters to an exhibit that will open at the museum today. It is entitled "100 Years of Memories." It is a collection of photos taken by tourists over the past 100 years the .. [more]

6:46:53 PM Train museum packed to move
New Jersey Herald - Newton,NJ,USA

(AP) - The platform layouts at the Alto Model Train Museum in the Rockway Building are vast expanses of plywood covered with miniature landscapes - fields, hills, homes and stores - interlaced with tracks. But the museum association will be moving th [more]

6:46:53 PM King opens Prophet Museum in Amman
Jordan News Agency (Petra) - Jordan

Amman, May 15 (Petra) -- His Majesty King Abdullah II on Tuesday opened the Museum of the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, on the grounds of the King Hussein Bin Talal Mosque compound in Amman. The King toured the museum and viewed items on displ [more]

5:05:58 PM Night at the Museum Returns, Fewer Lines Expected
Moscow Times - Moscow,Russia

By Katherine Jacobsen Nearly 200 of Moscow's museums, parks, theaters and cultural centers are staying open after hours Saturday as part of the city's sixth annual Night at the Museum project. Most participating venues will be open from 6 pm until .. [more]

5:05:58 PM European artists protest budget cuts by destroying their art, including at
Public Radio International PRI

Public Radio International PRI Museum director Antonio Manfredi sets fire to the first painting in his campaign to destroy his museum collection until its funding situation is improved. (Photo courtesy of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum.) An Ital [more]

4:17:49 PM A Glare Grows in Dallas: Why a New Condo Tower Has the City's Art Community
Vanity Fair - New York,NY,USA

Vanity Fair And how there is too much of both of them in Dallas, where something called Museum Tower, a 42-story condominium with a façade of highly reflective glass, has risen beside the Nasher Sculpture Center, the building by Renzo Piano that is o [more]

4:17:49 PM El Paso Museum of Archaeology will host night-sky storytelling event Friday
El Paso Times

By David Burge \ El Paso Times Visitors to the El Paso Museum of Archaeology's storytelling event will hear Native American stories and learn about the stars and nigh sky inside this tepee. Visitors to the El Paso Museum of Archaeology can hear ... [more]

4:17:49 PM Museums at Night 2012: Your guide to ghost tours, grisly tales and
discovery

Culture24 Museums at Night seems to bring out the ghoulish side of some cultural venues, many of which like nothing more than frightening us half to death with tales of ghosts, ghouls and other mysterious spectres of the night. That said, we seem to  [more]

12:13:47 PM Museums at Night: Careless Talk Costs Lives
BBC Sport - UK

If you are under 18, ask your parent/guardian before taking part in any activity. Entry by pre-booked ticket only. Adult £10, Children -16 £6 (min age 13). Discounts for Museum Pass Holders. To book, please telephone 01362 869251. [more]

9:18:12 AM Living history: Trails Museum characters come alive in fundraiser
Blue Springs Examiner - Blue Springs / Independence,MO,USA

Thomas Hart Benton, played by Niel Johnson, explains a map to a visitor during the National Frontier Trail Museum's first Night at the Museum event Saturday. Several characters featured at the museum came to life and gave 10-minute monologues about . [more]

9:18:12 AM Up on the roof of NY's Met museum in 'Cloud City'
Orlando Sentinel

Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno's "Cloud City" exhibit, a constellation of 16 interconnected modules is seen at the rooftop of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a handout photo. (Tomas Saraceno, Reuters/Handout / May 14, 2012) NEW YORK .. [more]

9:18:12 AM Amon Carter Museum receives $75000 digitization grant from the National ...
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces that it has received a $75000 Access to the Artist Archives digitization grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will allow the museum to digitize, catalog and publish ... [more]

7:01:29 AM Four museums shortlisted in running to win £100000 Art Fund Prize
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily The shortlist for the tenth Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries has been announced today. Including one national institution and one local museum, one radical new building and a painstakingly restored one, the shortlist reveals the div [more]

7:01:29 AM $13M revamp: Detroit Historical Museum closes to install new exhibits ...
insurance ...

By Michael H. Hodges You've got just over a week to visit the Detroit Historical Museum before it goes away for six months. In its biggest touch-up since the 1960s, the museum will close May 24 for renovations and upgrades that will yield new galleri [more]

7:01:29 AM Tomas Saraceno Creates CLOUD CITY on Metropolitan Museum's Roof Garden,
Broadway World - New York,NY,USA

Broadway World Artist Tomás Saraceno's Cloud City, a large constellation of 16 interconnected modules composed specifically for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opens to the public today, May 15, 2012. Measuring [more]

4:48:42 AM Baseball museum stars Lopez home
Brandon News and Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA

There's a plan to move Al Lopez's family home and make it a baseball museum. By MIKE SALINERO | The Tampa Tribune A museum dedicated to Tampa's rich baseball history is coming to Ybor City and could eventually be housed in Baseball Hall of Famer Al . [more]

1:19:35 AM How space shuttles hitch rides on 747s: "You don't think it's possible"
CBS News - USA

One by one, the orbiters are making their final journeys to museums -- hitching rides on top of a 747. It got CBS News wondering, how do they do that? CBS News national correspondent Chip Reid took a look. It was a stunning sight as the Space Shuttle [more]

1:19:35 AM Orhan Pamuk's museum celebrates transition, not vanity
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

A road sign at a crosswalk, installed by the municipal government, points proudly to his newly opened Museum of Innocence. The museum is not so much a homage to his eponymous book of 2008 as an aspect of it. From the moment he conceived of the projec [more]

1:19:35 AM Bhopal to have unique museum dedicated to Indian heroes
Times of India - India

BHOPAL: In an initiative to honour the national heroes and freedom fighters, Madhya Pradesh is setting up the first of its kind museum namely 'Veer Bharat Premises' dedicated to them in the state capital. This unique museum would be a tribute to the  [more]

1:00:35 AM Stax Museum mourns passing of legendary bass player
WMC-TV

Articles from Donald "Duck" Dunn's life are scattered throughout the Stax Museum. That's not surprising considering his bass lines became synonymous with the Stax Records' sound back in the recording studio's heyday. "He was one of the architects of  [more]

1:00:35 AM Buffalo Bill Museum ready for 'first look'
Cody Enterprise - Cody,WY,USA

Liz Holmes, director of museum services, works on unwrapping oversized replicas of pieces from an old playset of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in the renovated Buffalo Bill Museum on May 10. This summer William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody will greet ... [more]



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