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11:54:45 PM Metropolitan Museum Tops 5 Million Visitors, with a Little Help from
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

mediabistro.com (blog) By Stephanie Murg on Jul 01, 2010 03:56 PM Upon closing the books on its 2010 fiscal year (which ended yesterday), the Metropolitan Museum of Art has ... [more]

9:26:44 PM 850th Museum joins the Blue Star Museums Honor Roll
National Endowment for the Arts

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, New Hampshire is the 850thmuseum to join Blue Star Museums. Blue Star Museums is a partnership between ... [more]

9:09:18 PM Lady GaGa In The Museum!
PerezHilton.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA

Lady GaGa appeared in Boston yesterday for the unveiling of her exclusive Polaroid photo to be housed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology museum. ... [more]

6:52:48 PM UI Museum of Art director candidate Lydecker to speak at forum June 29
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands

Kent Lydecker, Ph.D., former Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Associate Director for Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, ... [more]

4:57:40 PM Saatchi Gallery: Nice gift Charles, but what now?
Guardian - UK

So the Saatchi Gallery is to be renamed the Museum of Contemporary Art, London. The Saatchi Gallery will now join museums of contemporary art in Sydney, ... [more]

3:50:18 PM Monster Mash: Metropolitan Museum of Art sees attendance surge; big
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) Big crowds: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York said attendance passed the 5-million mark in the last fiscal year -- its highest attendance since ... [more]

3:27:49 PM McCausland hails Ulster Museum Art Fund Prize win
BBC News - E,UK

Northern Ireland's Culture Minister has congratulated the Ulster Museum for winning this year's £100000 Art Fund Prize. It beat three other shortlisted ... [more]

11:28:25 AM Madison museum hosts soap box derby exhibit
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

AP The Wisconsin Historical Museum in Madison is looking at the history of the soap box derby in Madison. The exhibit, "Zoom! Whiz! Wow! ... [more]

10:12:01 AM Chillicothe museum needs $16000 in repairs
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By SCOTT HILYARD (Peoria) Journal Star An impressive array of historical artifacts is meticulously catalogued and carefully maintained inside the museum ... [more]

7:33:52 AM Supporters raising money for south Davis County museum
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

By SAMUEL WEIGLEY As a history teacher in Bountiful, Sandy Inman struggled to teach students about their city's past without a museum to explore. ... [more]

4:28:17 AM Soak up the local art scene with free admissions, neighborhood walks
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Free admissions to Seattle-area museums, neighborhood art walks kick off the holiday weekend around the Puget Sound. "Left-handed Guitarist," a sculpture in ... [more]

3:58:07 AM Maira Kalman's show at Jewish Museum
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Today the Contemporary Jewish Museum opens "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)," which samples all these facets of Kalman's output and ... [more]

1:52:04 AM Soutine painting formerly in Hammer Museum is sold at auction
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

In 2007, the UCLA Hammer Museum struck a deal with the Armand Hammer Foundation to split the collection that the late oilman had deposited in the Westwood ... [more]

12:35:06 AM Met Museum Attendance Highest Since 2001
Wall Street Journal - USA

By ERICA ORDEN The Metropolitan Museum of Art attracted 5.24 million visitors during its 2010 fiscal year, the museum announced Wednesday. ... [more]



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