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11:00:18 PM How to save on museums
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

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11:00:18 PM Amon Carter joins the art world in celebrating Will Barnet, 100 and still
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Fort Worth Star Telegram By Gaile Robinson American artist Will Barnet turned 100 last month To mark his centenary year, museums across the country, including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, have mounted exhibitions of his work. The Carter's  [more]

9:50:01 PM Art galleries and openings
Deseret News

Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Brigham Young University North Campus Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287) — "The Yankee Spirit: Highlights from the New Britain Museum of Art." Reception June 30, 7-9 pm Eccles Community Art Center (2580 Jefferson Ave. [more]

9:50:01 PM Marcy Hoffman, Emily Koester join South Floirda Science Museum staff
Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach,FL,USA

By Jane Fetterly Marcy Hoffman and Emily Koester have been named to the staff of the South Florida Science Museum, the museum announced. Hoffman, a third-generation Palm Beacher, was named director of development. Koester, of West Palm Beach, ... [more]

7:47:32 PM From space to civil rights, new exhibit touts Eisenhower's legacy,
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Daily Journal A new exhibit opening at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is designed to build on renewed interest in the 34th president's legacy as a statesman and visionary. The "Eisenhower: Agent of Change" exhibit opened Sat [more]

6:58:28 PM Pop artist Ruscha channels Kerouac in latest work
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

JOHN ROGERS, AP In this 2008 photo released by the Hammer Museum showing artist Ed Ruscha poses for a portrait at his Venice, Calif. studio. Fifty years after Jack Kerouac rolled a 120-foot scroll of paper into his typewriter and set American ... [more]

6:24:52 PM In the key of life
Access Atlanta - Atlanta,GA,USA

The most comprehensive exhibit yet by the 42-year-old artist whose works are fixtures in collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, “Memory as Medicine” deals with heady issues: the stain [more]

5:40:44 PM Book Review: Taonga Maori in the British Museum
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

By Peter Simpson The British Museum in London is one of the world's great repositories of human culture, being home to the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles and other priceless objects from every country and including no fewer than 2351 artefacts of . [more]

3:05:59 PM Public art on the museum model
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

On July 1, the suggested admission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will go up from $20 to $25. MoMA currently charges (required not suggested) $20 for adults and the Guggenheim charges $18. Which makes it all the more remarkable that two of the ... [more]

3:05:59 PM Jackson museum appears to have stalled
United Press International

Jackson said the museum would attract 700000 visitors and generate $150 million annually for the former steel-producing town. Jackson died two years ago this month from an accidental overdose of drugs allegedly administered to him by his personal ... [more]

3:05:59 PM Ship gains historic status
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA

PHOTO COURTESY OVERFALLS MARITIME MUSEUM FOUNDATIO Built by: Rice Brothers Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine. Keel laid in May of 1937. Register of Historic Places: 1989. Considered nationally significant as the last of the third-generation American . [more]

2:20:06 PM New York's public art is a breath of fresh air
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

New York City has many of the finest museums in the world, but there's something special about encountering artistic works in an open and public place and as a part of one's everyday life." Pasternak says she has not seen a more supportive ... [more]

11:35:18 AM Museum opens after two-year renovation
Traverse City Record Eagle

HARTLAND TOWNSHIP (AP) — The Florence B. Dearing Museum in Hartland Township will be open to the public again this summer after two years of extensive renovations. The museum reopened on Memorial Day with a ribbon-cutting ceremony organized by the .. [more]

9:41:27 AM From sidewalk to catwalk in Montreal
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

By Paul Gessell, Ottawa Citizen June 25, 2011 4:10 AM To Montreal to see what is surely the most theatrical museum exhibition ever staged within a two-hour drive of Ottawa. But first, answer this question: What is the first thing one should always do [more]

9:41:27 AM Muncie Children Museum's founding president has helped change children's
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA

Muncie Star Press Liz Marshall, president of the Muncie Children's Museum and recent Sursa Award winner, poses Thursday outside the museum. / Kurt Hostetler / The Star Press Know somebody interesting whom you would like to see introduced to readers o [more]

9:41:27 AM Two years after pop star's death, Michael Jackson museum complex still just
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA

Bellingham Herald The plans included moving the 1000-square-foot Jackson house a few blocks away to become part of a complex with a museum, performing arts center and, perhaps, a casino. "The plans are moving along," said Orland Park, Ill., businessm [more]

5:49:37 AM Doug Glanville to appear at Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

By STEVE PENN Doug Glanville, a baseball veteran and sports analyst, will discuss and sign copies of his book today at 1 pm at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. The book is “The Game From Where I Stand: From Batting Practice to the Clubhouse to the  [more]

5:49:37 AM One year after twister, Barnum Museum still discovering damage
Ct Post

September 2, 2010: A sign on the window of The Barnum Museum announces the building is still closed after a tornado on June 24, 2010. Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo June 2010: The Barnum Museum on Main Street in downtown ... [more]

5:32:08 AM Lester to speak about Negro Leagues, Nelson exhibit in Balcony Gallery
LubbockOnline.com

He traveled to museums around the country, and looked at old photographs, first-hand testimonies and documentaries. He collected baseball memorabilia, sports equipment and uniforms, and then posed and photographed himself in them, ... [more]

3:11:34 AM Jean Paul Gaultier | Must See in Montreal
StyleList (blog)

The exhibit will be at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until October 2 and will then travel to the Dallas Museum of Art from November 13, 2011to February 12, 2012 and eventually end up at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from March 24 to August 19 [more]

2:17:00 AM Blackbeard exhibit at NC Maritime Museum in Beaufort attracts 12000
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post By AP, More than 12000 people visited the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort in the first seven days of a new exhibit of artifacts from Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. About 300 items from the shipwreck in abo [more]

2:17:00 AM Louvre reject Italy's request to borrow Mona Lisa
China View, Beijing, China

ROME, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Paris's Louvre Museum has turned down a request from Italy to borrow the Mona Lisa, saying the iconic painting is too fragile to survive the trip. According to local news agency Adnkronos, the Italian National Committee for  [more]

2:17:00 AM Powers Museum holds open house, benefit to fund building repairs
Carthage Press - Carthage,MO,USA

By Olive L. Sullivan The Powers Museum plans an open house for Sunday, June 26, to celebrate the museum's 23rd anniversary and offer a sneak peek at the newest exhibit featuring the Civil War. The open house will also feature a silent auction to help [more]

1:32:06 AM Gem collector, museum booster and seasoned optimist
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

By PAUL GESSELL, The Ottawa Citizen June 24, 2011 8:22 PM New director Meg Beckel's vision for the Museum of Nature includes creating 'buzz' — and revenue — with blockbuster exhibits and programs for adults. The museum already faces a future of ... [more]

12:13:47 AM Treasures of Heaven at the British Museum
Guardian - UK

That notorious incident brings into focus some of the central themes of the British Museum's magnificent new exhibition. St Hugh's startling behaviour reflected these themes: the universal medieval belief that relics, the fragmented bodies of the ... [more]

12:13:47 AM Art museum to charge for parking
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA

The new fee comes a year after the museum opened an outdoor sculpture park that drove up attendance. General admission to the museum and the new park, 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park, is free. The parking fee will cover all b [more]



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