Museums

New York City Stamp Auction Raises $3.2 Million for Museum

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A New York City gallery has auctioned over 200 rare postage stamps to raise $3.2 million for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. Wall Street money manager William Gross' collection of Civil War-era Confederate states and early Canadian stamps sold Thursday at the Spink Shreves Galleries of New York and Dallas. Gross recently pledged $8 million to build a...

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UC Berkeley Modifying Museum Building Project Due To 'Economic Uncertainty'

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley’s plans for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) are being modified due to lingering economic uncertainty, museum and university officials announced. Several intriguing concepts for a new BAM/PFA home are under review and a detailed plan is expected to be unveiled early next year, said Lawrence Rinder, the director...

Philadelphia Museum of Art announces 'Fallen Blossoms' Exhibition of Works by Cai Guo-Qiang

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fabric Workshop and Museum will present a multi-site exhibition of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most prominent contemporary artists on the international art scene. Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms consists of a poetic meditation on the passing of time , memory, and memorializing. One of the artist’s signature “explosion events,”...

Results & Discussion: Night at the museum battle of the smithsonian

Club CDFreaks - Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

had success using any DVD v.6.6.0.3 and clone dvd2 may the results be with you:bigsmile:

Dezeen podcast: Dieter Rams at the Design Museum

dezeen (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast for the Design Museum in London, industrial designer Dieter Rams talks to managing director of furniture brand Vitsœ Mark Adams about an exhibition of his work at the museum.

Escape the Museum 2

Jay is Games (Free subscription) | yesterday

Platform: Download (Windows) — Adventure/hidden object hybrid Escape the Museum creates a tense, tight, wonderful experience that can be enjoyed by the entire family. Escape the Museum is a colorful, wild ride that tops the original in just about every aspect. So buckle up, find that map, charge your cell phone, unleash your inner MacGuyver, and get ready to navigate your way through a collapsing...

In the Lab: Results from mummy scans from Cairo Museum

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Los Angeles Times (Thomas H. Maugh II) With photos. CT scans of Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, shows evidence of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is normally thought of as a disease caused by modern lifestyles, researchers said today. "Atherosclerosis is ubiquitous among modern-day humans and, despite differences in ancient and modern lifestyles, we found...

British Museum Winter 2009 Events for Children

A Little Corner in Wembley (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

The British Museum continues to attract ever-increasing numbers of families with small children. They offer a wide variety of activities: British Museum - Winter 2009 Events for Children

Museum of the History of Science in Florence to Show Fingers, Tooth Said to be Galileo's

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

ROME (AP).- A Florence museum says two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. Three fingers and a tooth were taken from the astronomer's body in 1737 and placed in a container. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said a private collector had bought a container at auction containing two fingers and...

Major Baselitz Retrospective at the Museum Frieder Burda

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

BADEN-BADEN.- From November 21, 2009, to March 14, 2010, the Museum Frieder Burda and Baden-Baden's Staatliche Kunsthalle are exhibiting a comprehensive survey of the German artist Georg Baselitz, featuring approximately 140 works. “Baselitz. A Retrospective” is presented at the two neighbouring museums, with the Museum Frieder Burda displaying “50 years of painting” and the Staatliche...

Museum Morsbroich Shows Exhibition of Slow Paintings

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

LEVERKUSEN.- The exhibition "Slow Paintings" is devoted to the development of a highly involved form of painting as a continual strategy in the history of art, which emerged from the early 1960s onwards. With over 60 paintings and featuring no fewer than 32 artists, "Slow Paintings" provides a comprehensive overview of the different techniques and conceptual approaches that characterize...

Ralph Brennan Re-Opens Courtyard Café at New Orleans Museum of Art

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- On Saturday, November 14, 2009, the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group re-opened the "Courtyard Café" for the first time since Hurricane Katrina as part of a four month partnership with the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA.) The opening coincides with the "Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio" exhibition showing at NOMA...

Lichfield’s Johnson Birthplace Museum to host Christmas event

The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lichfield will be transported back in time as part of a special festive celebration. The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum will host Christmas Light Night on November 26. The event will allow visitors to step back into Georgian Lichfield with a late night costumed Museum opening including craft activities and Christmas decoration workshops for adults and children, as well [...]

What is a museum supposed to be?

Hrag Vartanian (Free subscription) | yesterday

As the New Museum controversy rages on, people are finally asking questions that we should periodically be asking of our arts institutions. The reason they haven’t come up before was probably because for the last six years we were all too busy watching the art market swallow the art world. Well, now is as good a [...]

Hey America, why don't *we* have a museum of Story and Storytelling?

Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday

Museum 'of story and storytelling' planned for Oxford | Books | guardian.co.uk From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations. Now a �2.5m donation from an anonymous private benefactor means the first steps have been...

From data and integration to smarter operations: Performance management at Dorel

t-admin | 16/11/2009

In a global, yet struggling economy, consumer product manufacturers can’t afford lackluster performance. They have to get the job done faster and still maintain a high level of quality. Competition, shifting buyer loyalties and increasingly complex supply chains add to the challenge. When timing and quality control are paramount, organizations need to be able to plan, analyze and measure results. So

Peruna the Prohibition Tonic and the 50 Million Dollar Art Endowment Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb

bestshill | 12/10/2009

Peruna was a prohibition tonic. Otherwise known as booze. It was 28% alcohol, that's a pretty stiff drink. At one time the elixir was banned on Native American reservations by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs for that very reason. It was claimed to cure nearly everything you can find on WebMD, but all it did was make you feel warm inside and slur your words. For a dollar a bottle. Peruna was at one

Lotussia Travel Launches New Multisport Adventure Tour Package to North Vietnam

lotramar | 12/09/2009

Lotussia Travel has just launched a new multisport adventure tour to the Northern area of Vietnam. The 11-day tour packages will include the two most important travel highlights of Vietnam are trekking through colorful local hill tribe villages of Lao Cai province and kayak paddling in the middle of Halong Bay world wonder. Start the journey first with a full day sightseeing tour of the capital, Hanoi