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News From Tuesday, July 27, 2010
11:33:55 PM Now On View: Restored Work That Isn'ta Caravaggio
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

... year on the 400th anniversary of his death. Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, said the work was “modest” and not of Caravaggio's quality. [more]

9:49:06 PM Farmworkers' Slavery Museum Hits the Road
Atlantic Online - USA

I visited the museum twice last winter, once in February when it was being assembled in Immokalee, a city of migrant workers in southern Florida, ... [more]

5:46:23 PM Houston Museum Prepares for Life After 'Lois' the Now-Bloomed Corpse Flower
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

By Steve Delahoyde on Jul 27, 2010 11:02 AM Following up on last week's most exciting museum story, the blooming of "Lois" the Corpse Flower at the Houston ... [more]

5:21:18 PM Painting Isn'ta Caravaggio, But Still Gets a Public Unveiling
American ...

Antonio Paolucci, the director of the Vatican Museums, wrote that the work was “modest” and not of Caravaggio's quality, according to The AP At the ... [more]

3:12:50 PM Volunteers help museum win award
BBC News - E,UK

"I think these are all things that have helped us to win the museum of the year award," said Belinda. There were eight awards given out at the Renaissance ... [more]

2:45:58 PM The Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum -- definitely worth the journey
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

of about 14000 in the northeast corner of Indiana, the art deco museum, once the headquarters for the Auburn Automobile Co., is a must-visit for any ... [more]

1:51:25 PM Verdict on suspected Caravaggio disappoints fans
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

But after inspecting the painting, experts from Rome's Museums Authority excluded the possibility, pointing to less-than-masterly brushstrokes on the ... [more]

12:41:23 PM Vatican paper dismisses own Caravaggio claims
BBC Sport - UK

Now Vatican Museums head Antonio Paolucci has responded in a piece headlined "new Caravaggio? Not really". He said it was of "modest" quality, painted with ... [more]

10:17:06 AM Calls to save Guernsey's Telephone Museum from closure
BBC Sport - UK

He said: "It's not everybody's choice of museum, it's outside town, it doesn't get the publicity like Castle Cornet or Candie Museum, but... it's an ... [more]

4:56:50 AM Investigation into cause of museum fire close to being finished
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA

A Pennsylvania State Police fire marshal says he's wrapping up his investigation into an early July fire that destroyed Mister Ed's Elephant Museum on US 30 ... [more]

4:18:59 AM Rupert J. Deese, Claremont artist who created functional pottery, dies at 85
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

One of his cocktail pitchers with a deep blue sheen is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "He made elegant vessel ceramics ... [more]

2:53:59 AM The spirit of the Wild West in Cody, Wyo.
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Located in the town that bears his name, Cody, Wyo., the Buffalo Bill Museum is actually just one of five museums housed in the same complex that all share ... [more]

1:55:54 AM Rare 'Corpse Flower' Brings Strange Sight and Sour Smell to Houston
AOL News

Greig explained that the plant was named Lois after the late mother of a former museum horticulturalist who bought the rare species, then the size of a ... [more]



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