Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — February 07
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The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie to feature Norman Rockwell work — A whimsical piece of advertising art painted by well known 20th century American painter Norman Rockwell will be an important part of The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie's permanent exhibit. The 30,000-square-foot art and history museum, currently under construction, is expected to open in the summer...
The American Dime Museum Is Closing
WJZ 13 Baltimore
Items from the American Dime Museum are going on the auction block Monday...
Arkell Museum set to open this summer
Capital News 9
There are high hopes for the new Arkell Museum. Planning for the project started almost 3 years ago. Now with the opening just months away, people said they believe it will be the very thing that revitalizes Canajoharie and the Mohawk Valley...
Chemistry helps save rare art
The Lewiston Sun Journal
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - When white masquerades as yellow and green might actually be blue, a call goes out to Henry DePhillips...
Art Collectors Open Their Own Museums
Chronicle of Philanthropy
A growing number of private collectors have been opening their own exhibition sites—from casual warehouse spaces to full-fledged museums—to show off their holdings and assert their aesthetic views...
Berlin Museums Chief Attacks Louvre for Abu Dhabi Venture
Bloomberg.com
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- France's decision to lend both the Louvre's name and its art to a planned museum in Abu Dhabi will lead to a ``commercialization'' of national treasures, Berlin museums...
ASU museum showcases rare T. rex brain casing
East Valley Tribune
There are only two in the world, and one is at Arizona State University. ASU's R.S. Dietz Museum of Geology has put on display a rare dinosaur fossil: The portion of the skull that once encased the brain of a Tyrannosaurus rex...
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Classical Antiquities Exhibition Opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Duke University
Durham, NC -- Sixty works of art from the ancient Mediterranean world will be on view, many of them for the first time, in a new exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University opening Feb. 15. The works, ranging in date from about 2800 BCE to 300 CE, are part of a recent gift to the Nasher Museum...
Give us back our bones, pagans tell museums
Guardian Unlimited
· British curators asked to relinquish relics· Scientists fight to save link to pre-Christian peoples...
Eclectic list of museums and galleries bid for rich prize
Independent
Exhibitions ranging from Islamic art to prostitution are in the running for Britain's biggest arts award, the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries...
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'Black list' of Afghan antiquities seeks to halt illegal trade
Eu Business
(BRUSSELS ) - The International Council of Museums on Friday published a "black list" of archaeological treasures illegally smuggled out of Afghanistan, in a bid to stifle trade in the stolen antiquities...
Museums struggle under budget cuts
The Arizona Republic
More than six months after Mesa reduced or stopped funding for arts institutions in the city, the directors of the three major museums aggressively pursue options to keep their doors...
Previously unseen Monet work on display
Moldova.org
Previously unseen drawings of Claude Monet, including one found on the back of another work, provide insight into the artist, a British curator said.Coast of Lower Normandy and Boats on the Beach at Normandy, black chalk studies and several pastels, including Cat Sleeping on a Bed, are among the 80 works to be exhibited at London's Royal Academy of Arts from private collections and museums...
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Museum Archives Shake Off Dust, Find Supporters for Online Move
Bloomberg.com
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The staid archive departments of major art museums are used to second billing next to big, splashy canvases hanging on the walls, but that's quickly changing...
St. Paul museum show looks at race
AP via Yahoo! News
Going to the Science Museum of Minnesota was no pleasure trip for Monica Gorde and her four children. The newest attraction, a special exhibit on race...
February 1, 2007
Arts Journal
The Philadelphia Museum's and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' need to deaccession works from their collections to raise the $68 million to pay for "The Gross Clinic" needs to be seen in a larger context: What do museums really need and how may they achieve their goals...
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