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11:29:42 PM S.F.'s Mexican Museum uncorks Don Julio Collection
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

"Acto de Fe," an acetate and lambda print by Mexican-born Tatiana Parcero, who mixes photos of herself with anatomy diagrams and Aztec codices, is at the Mexican Museum. David de la Torre does not equivocate when he says that San Francisco's Mexican  [more]

11:29:42 PM The Dead Sea Scrolls Join Other Artifacts Living Online
PC Magazine - USA

Governments, museums, libraries, and even private citizens have compiled collections from the ridiculously mundane to the sublimely comprehensive. The care and time it took to share them online invites examination. Here are a few selections worth ... [more]

11:29:42 PM Who's famous? Who's not? Who cares?
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

If the city has a canon, this exhibition doesn't stake it, and the works included are lighter, looser and stranger for it. "Re: Chicago" runs through March 4 at the DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton Ave., museums.depaul.edu. ... [more]

10:31:05 PM Art museum renovation to start Oct. 12
Cincinnati.com

The Cincinnati Art Museum will break ground on the renovation of its Art Academy Building on Oct. 12. Dayton-based Danis Building Construction Co. has contracted to do the construction on the $11.2 million project. Museum officials said Wednesday tha [more]

8:57:03 PM Roving art show brings Picasso to Cuban masses
The Associated Press

Selections from the 120-piece collection have already toured Camaguey and Holguin in the island's far-flung east and recently went on display in the western city of Pinar del Rio, known more for tobacco farms than art museums. ... [more]

8:57:03 PM Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates the Women of Jazz with a Month-long Tribute
Dallas Art News - Dallas,Texas,USA

Join the Dallas Museum of Art for a month-long celebration of the women of jazz music during Thursday Night Live's Jazz in the Atrium program. Each concert features area and national ensembles with female bandleaders celebrating the history of women  [more]

8:54:32 PM Monster Mash: Holocaust Museum gets big gift; Wallis Annenberg and MOCA
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Donation: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said it received its largest single gift ever -- $17.2 million from the estate of Eric F. Ross. (Washington Post) Philanthropist: Wallis Annenberg has joined the board of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art. (Lo [more]

8:54:32 PM Google takes the Dead Sea Scrolls online
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Joshua Little A part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is seen inside the vault of the Shrine of the Book building at the Israel Museum on September, 26, 2011. in Jerusalem, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi - GETTY IMAGES) The Dead Sea Scrol [more]

8:54:32 PM Mummified hand found by Idaho museum to go to Utah
StandardNet - Ogden,Utah,USA

By Contributed AP IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- The Idaho Falls Police Department has closed its investigation into a mummified hand found in a museum storeroom and officials said the remains will likely be turned over to Native American tribes in Utah. ... [more]

8:54:32 PM SF's Asian Art Museum launches a new brand
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

At a news conference today, Asian Art Museum Director Jay Xu presented the results of a two-year effort to introduce “a new vision and new brand promise, reinventing ourselves to engage a broader audience.” The launch of the new visual image is an .. [more]

8:54:32 PM Seaport Museum 'Vastly' Overspent, New Manager Says
DNAinfo

From left, Museum of the City of New York Director Susan Henshaw Jones, Save Our Seaport activist Michael Kramer and Jerry Gallagher, the new director of day-to-day operations at the Seaport Museum. (DNAinfo/Julie Shapiro) SOUTH STREET SEAPORT ... [more]

6:32:41 PM Rare Babe Ruth card is treasured by collectors, savored by museum and ...
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

23, 2011, Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum executive director Michael Gibbons displays a rare 1914 Babe Ruth baseball card at the museum in Baltimore. For Mike Gibbons, the executive director of the Babe Ruth Museum, the card represents an early glimpse a [more]

6:32:41 PM Vote now to put this man in a museum
LaSalle News Tribune - LaSalle,IL,USA

By Lindsay Vaughn Dale Fiste is a finalist in Museum of Science and Industrys Month at the Museum 2 contest. Voting is under way at www.monthatthemuseum.org. As a boy, Dale Fiste of Malden was fascinated by Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. . [more]

5:33:02 PM NYC exhibit focuses on jewelry by famous artists
The Associated Press

The show is "a wonderful way to look at artists who are primarily painters and sculptors and are also making jewelry," said Holly Hotchner, director of MAD, one of the only US museums with a designated contemporary jewelry gallery. ... [more]

4:56:45 PM Will the Detroit Science Center close for good?
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

The museum closed Monday for at least two weeks because it couldn't guarantee that it would be able to make its biweekly payroll of about $150000 and other expenses. All 114 employees have been furloughed, and museum leaders told staff members that . [more]

3:09:22 PM City Museum Founder Bob Cassilly Killed in Bulldozer Accident
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA

By Steve Delahoyde on September 28, 2011 8:46 AM If you've ever visit St. Louis and not gone to spend an afternoon at The City Museum, you've missed an opportunity to visit one of the strangest, most interesting destinations on the planet. ... [more]

3:09:22 PM Frankfort teacher could make Museum of Science and Industry home for month
TribLocal

By Ashley Rueff TribLocal reporter Today at 9:07 am Month at The Museum finalist Katie Duff hopes to live one month inside the Museum of Science and Industry. (Submitted) Eighth-grade science teacher Katie Duff tells her students if they didn't lock  [more]

12:32:58 PM New Skirmishes Among Metropolitan Museum Vendors
New York Times (blog)

By COREY KILGANNON Librado Romero/The New York TimesThe highly lucrative area in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue has again become a battleground for vendors. In the continuing hot dog wars in front of the Metropolitan Museum o [more]

12:32:58 PM Seafood museum's $18K restored
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

(AP) — The Biloxi City Council has voted unanimously to overturn the mayor's veto and restore $18400 in funding to the Biloxi Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum. The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/owxB4Y ) Mayor AJ Holloway said in his veto messag [more]

10:04:17 AM Rahr-West Art Museum's new director 'amazed' by young artists
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA

Greg Vadney, the Rahr-West Art Museum's new executive director, looks at a por trait of Petrea Elizabeth Rahr hanging in the Rahr Mansion. It was drawn by fellow New Yorker, Bradshaw Crandell. / Charlie Mathews/HTR MANITOWOC — New York native, ... [more]

9:18:11 AM Art Platform-Los Angeles Sponsors 'Unprecedented' LA Art Celebration
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

This weekend, art museums, galleries and venues around Los Angeles are celebrating Los Angeles' romance with the art world, aided by the opening of Art Platform—Los Angeles, a contemporary art fair. What's the occasion? LA's rich tradition of artists [more]

9:18:11 AM American Museums De-Accession Russian Works at Auction
ArtfixDaily

Two museums in the US are offering Russian art from their collections at a Sotheby's auction in New York this fall. The Nov. 1 Important Russian Art sale will feature a masterpiece by Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955), ... [more]

8:17:31 AM Teamsters Protest Celebrity Gala at Met Museum
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Professional art handlers and their supporters protested in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual diversity-themed gala yesterday. Protestors called on museum board members to end an eight-week-long ... [more]

6:20:34 AM Museum owner: It's time to be done
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA

Les Behrns and his wife, Shirley, will close Arrowhead Bluffs Museum near Wabasha, Minn., at the end of October. More than 110 mounted animals are on display at the museum, almost all of which Les and his son, John, bagged during hunting trips. ... [more]

3:51:47 AM Augusta Museum to hold talk on importance of preserving history
Augusta Chronicle - Augusta,GA,USA

As part of its continuing Brown Bag History Series, the Augusta Museum of History presents “Place in Time, Augusta Past, Present and Future,” a talk given by Lee Ann Caldwell, at 12:30 pm Oct. 5. Her talk will be about the significance of local histo [more]

3:51:47 AM Museum Toasts De Niro, Jackson
Wall Street Journal - USA

By MIKE VILENSKY The Metropolitan Museum of Art threw a black-tie "Evening of Many Cultures" gala Monday, where guests like Star Jones and Spike Lee roamed the "Heroic Africans" exhibit and perused ancient Egyptian artifacts. Ms. Jones was attending  [more]

3:51:47 AM Walnut Creek's Lindsay museum soars to new heights with new exhibits
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

He was one of the first to enjoy the hawk flight simulators, one of two new exhibits at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek. "I like it a lot," the 9-year-old Martinez resident said. "But it's hard to fly." The simulator allows children -- an [more]

3:36:49 AM Dead Sea Scrolls online: a window on Judaism in the time of Jesus (VIDEO)
Christian Science Monitor - USA

The first seven scrolls are entrusted to the Israel Museum while others are the property of other museums in Israel, Amman, Paris, as well as private collectors. While the scrolls have long been available in competing translations in book form, ... [more]

12:53:31 AM Finalists picked for Museum of Science and Industry contest
Chicago Sun-Times

10-20-10 Kate McGroarty arrives at the Museum of Science and Industry on Oct. 20, 2010, to begin her month-long stay in a public cube. | Jean Lachat~Sun-Times file Want to have a say in who gets to live at the Museum of Science and Industry for a mon [more]

12:53:31 AM Asian Art Museum Unveils New Logo, Approach
The San Francisco Appeal

by Bay City News The San Francisco Asian Art Museum, despite its role as a steward of the past, is no stranger to transformation and today announced a plan to rebrand itself. Once a wing of the de Young Museum, the museum moved in 2003 to the former  [more]

12:53:31 AM Cassilly's death leaves questions about future of City Museum, Cementland
St. Louis Beacon (blog)

By Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter Following the death of Bob Cassilly, one thing is certain: City Museum will re-open Wednesday as scheduled. What happens after that is not clear. Cassilly was found dead Monday morning in a bulldozer at Cementlan [more]

12:53:31 AM The Elegance at Hershey Events Raise $205000 for Charities: Juvenile
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) received $105000, while the AACA Antique Automobile Museum and the AACA Library and Research Center each received checks for $50000. "Because of the generosity of our sponso [more]

12:53:31 AM Wis. museum features little-known Holocaust story
Janesville Gazette

By AP Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 6:17 pm MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Jewish Museum Milwaukee is hosting an exhibit about the only American woman executed on direct orders of Adolf Hitler. Mildred Fish Harnack, a Milwaukee native, taught literature in ... [more]



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