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News From Tuesday, July 20, 2010
11:51:41 PM Leopold Museum to pay $19 Million for Painting Seized by Nazis
American ...

The Leopold Museum in Vienna has agreed to pay $19 million for “Portrait of Wally,” painted in 1912, a work lent to the Museum of Modern Art in 1997 for an ... [more]

10:26:45 PM Women leading museums out of their all-male preserve
Guardian - UK

The ladies are mounting a stealthy ambush on museums whose leadership has traditionally been an all-male preserve. Two years ago, Diane Lees became the ... [more]

9:57:11 PM Inside the Renovated Israel Museum
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Ethan Bronner writes: "For the last 45 years, the Israel Museum has been both the crown jewel of this country's cultural heritage and a bit of a mess. ... [more]

8:11:29 PM Q&A: Sites En Route from Frankfurt to Munich
New York Times (blog)

Your starting point, Frankfurt, has much to offer: an international population, glittering skyscrapers and impressive museums. A good introduction to the ... [more]

6:21:59 PM Monster Mash: Obama salutes Broadway at White House; Field Museum
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Los Angeles Times (blog) Heading home: The Field Museum is returning the remains of 22 individuals that were brought to Chicago in 1928 after being exhumed from an Inuit village in ... [more]

5:57:13 PM Museum's historic section temporarily closed
Redding Pilot - Georgetown,CT,USA

The historic section of the Barnum Museum is closed due to the after effects of the tornado on June 24. Air quality reports received on July 15 indicated ... [more]

4:47:58 PM UCM joins some of world's best museums in international exhibition
digitalBURG.com - Warrensburg,MO,USA

There, among 400 items from some of the world's best-known museums, is a prominent display of 64 priceless items from UCM's Nance Middle East Collection of ... [more]

3:11:49 PM News: Apple Donates MacPaint to Computer History Museum
The Mac Observer - USA

Apple donated the code, along with the code for QuickDraw, to the museum for academic and historic research. Apple's MacPaint has been called one of the ... [more]

9:57:37 AM What's Your Good News?
Patch

Nationally, in a survey by the Association of Art Museum Directors, almost half of museums reported an increase in attendance from 2008 to 2009. ... [more]

9:50:23 AM Museum Honors Animal War Heroes
Tonic

By Katie Leavitt | Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:30 AM ET Horses, birds, dogs and mules all had their part in WWII and a New Orleans museum decided it was time ... [more]

8:43:41 AM Restoration of Eakins' "Gross Clinic" deemed a successful operation
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

In 1980, he joined the conservation department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was thrown into preparations for the large retrospective of Thomas ... [more]

6:55:25 AM Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Kelly Baum as Curator
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

contemporary art, the Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Kelly Baum as the first Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Since December ... [more]

3:29:00 AM Field Museum to return Inuit remains
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

By William Mullen, Tribune reporter Field Museum officials have agreed to return the remains of 22 people whom a museum expedition brought to Chicago in ... [more]



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