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News From Thursday, June 17, 2010
10:45:20 PM Miami Art Museum Names New Director
American ...

By KATE TAYLOR The Miami Art Museum has named Thomas Collins, currently the director of the Neuberger Museum of Art in Westchester County, NY, ... [more]

9:57:32 PM MUSEUMS & GALLERIES Real Genius: 'Da Vinci: The Genius'
Express from The Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

An inventor, sculptor, engineer, architect and musician, Leonardo da Vinci would have done well in this rotten job market. The National Geographic Society's ... [more]

8:12:52 PM Should the Getty merge its president and museum director positions?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The death of J. Paul Getty Trust President and CEO James Wood last week followed the resignation in January of Getty Museum director Michael Brand. ... [more]

7:28:44 PM Lakefront Festival of Arts Starts Friday
ABC News - United States

AP The Milwaukee Art Museum's Lakefront Festival of Arts starts Friday and runs through Sunday on the museum's grounds. It also features food, music, .... [more]

5:36:03 PM National Pinball Museum headed to Georgetown?
Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

Soon Georgetown may be host to just about the most fun national museum in Washington: the National Pinball Museum. A product of one man's nearly lifelong ... [more]

3:29:01 PM A pearl of a museum
The Life of Kings - Baltimore,MD,USA

The appeal of great works of art is timeless, but the great museums that house them must constantly keep up with the times. Museum directors know they can't ... [more]

3:22:53 PM Thomas S. Buechner, Former Director of Brooklyn Museum, Dies at 83
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By WILLIAM GRIMES Thomas S. Buechner, who led the Brooklyn Museum through an ambitious renovation as its director in the 1960s and who was the founding ... [more]

1:36:51 PM Contemporary Museums
Dexigner - USA

A critical survey of contemporary museums, as well as a reference in the field of architecture. The book analyzes the design and production of museum ... [more]

12:13:18 PM Books: Colson Whitehead at the Hammer Museum
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... in the largely African American beach community in the summer of 1985. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., LA 7 pm Free. (310) 443-7000. hammer.ucla.edu. [more]

11:07:50 AM Constructed Landscapes: Adams-Burtynsky exhibit at Shelburne Museum
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA

By Sally Pollak, Free Press Staff Writer • Thursday, June 17, 2010 The first photography exhibit at Shelburne Museum, “Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky: ... [more]

10:08:47 AM Locomotive days at Rush museums
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA

Call (585) 533-1113 or www.nymtmuseum.org. A two-mile train ride is offered between the two museums in Rush. (Provided photo) [more]

8:06:45 AM CIA papers show agency struggled in Korean War
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

.... and Museum is hosting the release Wednesday June 16, 2010 of the largest amount of intelligence documents on the Korean War, which began 60 years ago. ... [more]

7:28:42 AM Culture Shlock: The No Roamin' Holiday
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

In the past, museums like the Louvre were plagued by major heists while security guards were out of town for the summer months — that is, until the French ... [more]

7:07:17 AM Charles H. Wright Museum holding Juneteenth benefit
The Detroit News - Detroit,MI,USA

FREEDOM: A Juneteenth Celebration and benefit to support the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will be held from 3-8 pm Saturday at Beans ... [more]

6:43:53 AM Museums, exhibits
GoErie.com - Erie,PA,USA

ERIE COUNTY HISTORY CENTER AND CASHIERS HOUSE -- 419 State St., 454-1813, Ext. 0 -- hours: Tuesday-Saturday. 11 am-4 pm -- $4, $3 for seniors, ... [more]

5:33:07 AM Maurices' gift kicks off Duluth Children's Museum campaign
Duluth News Tribune

Ann Sanford and her son Michael, 8, of Duluth came to take a look around the interior of the building that will house the future Duluth Children's Museum. ... [more]

4:09:10 AM Collector's Generous Bequest Brings Important 20th Century Works to 15
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily Membership charity the Art Fund has successfully placed 27 works of art from a major bequest in 15 museums across the UK . The works of art belonged to Ann ... [more]

3:29:07 AM Winston Churchill seems to have kicked his habit after London museum
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News But a London museum doctors a photo of Churchill (not pictured) and hangs it above its entrance. Now, it seems, the do-gooders are meddling with history. ... [more]

1:53:21 AM CIA papers: US was caught off-guard in Korean War
The Associated Press

___ Online: CIA: http://www.cia.gov Harry S. Truman Library and Museum: http://www.trumanlibrary.org Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: ... [more]



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