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9:39:33 PM Justin Timberlake on Richard Serra, Banksy and spending more time in museums
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

In the July issue of "Vanity Fair," Vanessa Grigoriadis, who calls the singer-actor-philanthropist "his generation's multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr.," rides with him in his Audi R8 to visit the LA County Museum of Art. She says it was a last-minute .. [more]

8:13:14 PM Protesters allowed inside the Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA

By Mary Louise Schumacher of the Journal Sentinel A small group of artists held a "sing in" at the Milwaukee Art Museum Friday in solidarity with detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Inside, the museum prepared to open a large exhibit of Chinese art .. [more]

8:13:14 PM 'Miracle on the Hudson' flight arrives 'after 876-day delay'
Florence

That's where the fuselage from the Airbus A320 will go on permanent display at the Carolinas Aviation Museum. The Charlotte Observer writes US Airways Flight 1549 arrived at the museum Friday, making it to its original destination of Charlotte "after [more]

8:13:14 PM Berra Museum Ready to “Play Ball” Again
Baristanet - Montclair,NJ,USA

BY Erika Bleiberg | Monday, Jun 13, 2011 1:30pm | COMMENTS (0) Carmen and Yogi Berra — with a little help from granddaughters Kay and Alexandra — officially re-opened the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center yesterday (Sunday, June 12), ... [more]

8:13:14 PM National Corvette Museum Participating in Blue Star Museums
Bowling Green Daily News - Bowling Green,KY,USA

by Katie Frassinelli, National Corvette Museum The National Corvette Museum has joined Blue Star Museums, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 1300 museums across America to offer free admission to [more]

7:46:26 PM Museum Mile Festival to Turn Fifth Avenue into Giant Block Party
DNAinfo

The 33rd annual Museum Mile festival brings visitors into museums and art and food onto the streets on Tuesday. By Amy Zimmer MANHATTAN — It's billed as New York's biggest block party. The 33rd Annual Museum Mile Festival will turn the sidewalks of . [more]

6:20:11 PM Museums and theatres share in expansion
Financial Times

Later this year, the Städel art museum, on the south side of the river Main, will unveil the first results of a €45m ($65m) extension and renovation programme. Not only will the amount of exhibition space in Germany's financial capital increase ... [more]

6:20:11 PM National Geographic Museum: The Etruscans – An Italian Civilization
We Love DC - Washington,DC,USA

But sadly, DC doesn't have a large selection of museums that cater to ancient history nerds like me. The Smithsonian's Natural History Museum has an exhibit which hasn't been updated since I was in elementary school; and Dumbarton Oaks Museum has a . [more]

5:41:02 PM NYC Museum Mile Festival set for Tuesday
Wall Street Journal - USA

AP NEW YORK — Nine museums along New York City's fashionable Fifth Avenue are throwing open their doors for the annual Museum Mile Festival, offering free admission and outdoor art activities. Fifth Avenue, from 82nd to 104th streets, will be closed  [more]

5:41:02 PM The Emperor's Private Paradise at the Milwaukee Art Museum Celebrates
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily This summer, the Milwaukee Art Museum presents five exhibitions on Chinese art and architecture as part of a year-long celebration honoring the ten-year anniversary of the Santiago Calatrava–designed Quadracci Pavilion. ... [more]

5:41:02 PM Gig Harbor Teen's Work Becomes State Museum Exhibit
Kitsap Sun - WA, United States

Her exhibit is now on display at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. GIG HARBOR — The Washington State History is filled with interesting exhibits and artifacts but one display is especially unique. A six-foot-tall prism with a spinning .. [more]

5:41:02 PM VMI Acquisition of Jackson Foundation Complete
Rockbridge Weekly

They will become a part of VMI's museum operations, which also include the VMI Museum and the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park and Virginia Museum of the Civil War. The proposal was sent to the governor after being approved by VMI Board o [more]

3:20:14 PM Jet from miracle splashdown arrives at North Carolina museum
The Trucker - USA

(AP Photo/Chuck Burton) By MITCH WEISS The Associated Press Two years after a US Airways jet left New York for Charlotte and made a miraculous landing on the Hudson River, it reached its intended destination and future home in a museum. ... [more]

3:20:14 PM Banksy sponsors free museum admission
BBC Sport - UK

Guerilla artist Banksy is sponsoring free admission to an exhibition on street art at a museum in Los Angeles. Tickets to the Museum of Contemporary Art's Art in the Streets exhibition usually cost $10 (£6), but will be free every Monday thanks to th [more]

3:20:14 PM American Girl and Field Museum in Chicago team up to teach girls about
History

Chicago Parent Now the Field Museum and American Girl have teamed up to take that commitment to another level with an American Girl tour. I wanted to check it out for myself, so I recruited 9-year-old Holly and her Bitty Baby Michael and 12-year-old  [more]

2:57:14 PM Haggerty Museum to show art in urban location
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA

By Mary Louise Schumacher of the Journal Sentinel One of the best ways for museums to connect with their communities is to actually go into them. That's what the Haggerty Museum of Art will do starting Saturday. The “Crossroads” exhibition won't take [more]

2:57:14 PM Glinz preserves Bottineau's past
Minot Daily News - Minot,ND,USA

She limits descriptions posted with museum items to six lines. Museum experts have found that people don't read much more than that. Glinz learned a lot about museums as a volunteer at a museum in Winnipeg, where the Glinzes spent time when Norman wa [more]

2:57:14 PM GAO Finds that Smithsonian Institution May Still Take Several More Decades
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) In 1989, Congress passed a law that created a repatriation process for the Smithsonian Institution; two of the institution's 19 galleries and museums hold important collections of Native American human remains and sacred o [more]

12:26:17 PM Georgia Music Hall of Fame Moving Here? | News
WXIA-TV

The state Legislature announced last year that it would no longer fund the museum as of July 1. That's music to at least one politician's ears. Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts said he lobbied long ago to have the museum downtown to celebrate th [more]

12:26:17 PM Museum program will showcase Dutch Hop
ReporterHerald.com - Loveland,CO,USA

Saturday, Loveland residents can experience a part of German-Russian culture at Celebrate Dutch Hop at the Loveland Museum/Gallery. Dutch Hop is a type of polka and is danced to live music. The event will begin with a panel discussion where dancers a [more]

12:26:17 PM Library joins 'Treasures of Connecticut' Project
Norwalk Plus Magazine - USA

The library will work with the Norwalk Museum, Norwalk Historical Society and the Town Clerk's Office to select and scan materials from each institution to be added to the “Treasures of Connecticut Libraries” project sponsored by the Connecticut Stat [more]

11:48:23 AM Salem, steeped in witch tourism, rebrands beyond
The Associated Press

Tourism officials and business owners hope their unwitchly emphasis on other museums, sunset cruises, exceptional architecture and a rich maritime history will encourage visitors to spend more time and money in Salem. "We estimate that tourists comin [more]

11:48:23 AM Barnes Museum Brings Back Good Ol' Days
Patch.com

By Margaret Waage | Email the author | 5:30am Lauren Dattilo, age 5, is busy stamping entrant's hand during Barnes Museum's Victorian Garden Party. Dattilo was crowned Little Miss Southington May 1st. Jaymie Bianca, Pre Teen Miss Southington, right,  [more]

10:15:34 AM Macon mulls starting its own music hall of fame
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Macon has lost the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, but that doesn't mean the city can't start its own music museum. NewTown Macon, a public-private group formed to promote downtown, is rebuilding the historic Capricorn Records studio in the city's downto [more]

10:15:34 AM Heritage museum near completion
Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA

Executive director Lorraine Slacks, right, and her son Ross Slacks, left, inspect the new Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum. Slacks said she is planning a grand opening for next month for the new facility, located inside ... [more]

10:01:17 AM Oshkosh Public Museum sells Native American artifacts to fund future
Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,Wisconsin,USA

Oshkosh Northwestern A pair of intricately woven Apache baskets from the Oshkosh Public Museum commanded a prominent spot on the front cover of the glossy magazine of the highly regarded West Coast auction house Bonhams this month. The sale of these  [more]

7:43:15 AM Site clearing for new Donner museum stuns residents
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

By Barbara Barte Osborn Construction of a new museum at Donner Memorial State Park in Truckee is shocking many residents and visitors despite years of warnings that the project would disturb the site. "Since last week, I've been getting calls and ... [more]

7:43:15 AM Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

“Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris” ignores the artist's “biography and mythology,” says Fine Arts Museums director John E. Buchanan Jr. The works are hung white walls, with only small, inconspicuous signs identifying the works by . [more]

6:12:19 AM Museum adds 2 1840s homes
Toledo Blade

BY JENNIFER FEEHAN Renee Smith, museum curator, leads a tour of one of its homes on Sandusky Street in Findlay, where the museum complex is growing again. THE BLADE/LORI KING Enlarge | Photo Reprints FINDLAY — At a time when some local history museum [more]

6:06:13 AM Music review: June Chamber Festival at the Kreeger Museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The room was designed for musical performance, and on Friday night the Kreeger Museum opened the seventh installment of its June Chamber Festival there. The regular guests, violist Miles Hoffman and the American Chamber Players, generally have their  [more]

6:06:13 AM Macculloch Hall presents its take on 'modern family' life
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - East Brunswick,NJ,USA

This family-friendly program about family life in the first half of the 19th century, which begins at 5 pm, features guest speaker Elisabeth Garrett Widmer, educator, museum consultant and author of “At Home: The American Family 1750-1870. ... [more]

6:06:13 AM 'They defied the odds'
Kansas.com - KS,USA

George Boyd signs autographs for visitors to the Tuskegee Airmen exhibit at the Kansas African American Museum. Tuskegee Airman Donald Jackson also signed autographs at the opening of the exhibit, which runs through Aug. 20. ... [more]

3:53:14 AM Fighting pair of dino skeletons goes for $2.75 million
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

This is "The Fighting Pair, Allosaurus and Stegasaurus" that was sold to a museum for $2.75 million on June 12, 2011. The pair, an allosaurus and a stegosaurus, was offered together because of its discovery in a Wyoming quarry with the jaw of the ... [more]

3:53:14 AM Museum bill confusion
The Herald

NEW ATTRACTION: The Riverside Museum has been declared a success but a row is raging over bill footed by taxpayers. GLASGOW City Council has accepted there was “confusion” over who should foot the bill for key work carried out for the city's new ... [more]

3:53:14 AM 'Monumental Grandeur' being restored at Art Museum
St. Louis Beacon (blog)

“For something from 1850, it's actually in pretty remarkable shape, when it's been rolled and unrolled,” Museum painting conservator Paul Haner said. John J. Egan; Huge Mound and the Manner of Opening cotton muslin; St. Louis Art Museum, Eliza McMill [more]

3:53:14 AM Browsing for free
The Register-Guard

By Karen McCowan Retired Eugene teacher Patti Hoyt hadn't been inside the Natural and Cultural History Museum since she was a University of Oregon student in the 1970s. That changed Saturday afternoon when she and her husband wandered by and noticed  [more]



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