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  • July 2008

    • Wanted: Museum Director to Marry Art, Commerce

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jul 15, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      Wanted: Museum Director to Marry Art, Commerce

      American museums are facing a shift in leadership, Newsweek reports, with 20 of the most prominent fine-art institutions—including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—in search of directors. A "generational shift" has left institutions seeking specific qualifications: "Ideally a candidate has a PhD in art history but also an MBA," one expert says. More »

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      art  • museum  • art museum  • Metropolitan Museum of Art  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  • management  • MBA

    • Chinese Museums Confound Western Expectations

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 4, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Chinese Museums Confound Western Expectations

      These days China feels "both older and newer than any place on the planet," writes  New York Times art critic Holland Cotter. And nowhere is that tension more palpable than in the country's museums, which use antiquities from the millennia-old civilization in service of a rising world power. In a trip across China, the critic discovers a different approach to museum display. More »

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      China  • culture  • museum  • art museum  • Chinese art

  • June 2008

    • How to Work Museums Into Kids' Summers

      newser  |  Slate  |  Jun 25, 08 7:36 AM CDT

      How to Work Museums Into Kids' Summers

      For kids, summer means endless hours at the pool—but parents don't want them to grow up culturally underfed cretins, either. Emily Bazelon offers Slate readers a few suggestions for turning a summer museum trip into an outing the young'uns (and you) will actually enjoy: Keep it simple. Kids have short attention spans and hate to walk for hours.   More »

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      children  • parenting  • family  • summer  • museum  • outing

    • Mexico's Secret Drug Museum

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jun 21, 08 11:39 AM CDT

      Mexico's Secret Drug Museum

      Mexico City's least-known museum may be one of its most interesting, Newsweek reports. The city's Narcotics Museum chronicles drug use in Mexico from the days of the Aztecs to the ruthless heroin-smuggling narcotraficantes of today. Exhibits include bling and heavy weaponry confiscated from drug lords. A visit is essential training for cadets in Mexico's counternarcotics force. More »

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      Mexico  • drugs  • Mexico City  • museum  • narcotics  • counternarcotics

    • At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      newser  |  Weekly Standard  |  Jun 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      Revisiting Chicago’s Field Museum—an institution enshrined in loving childhood memories—for its “The Ancient Americas” exhibit is a sore disappointment, PJ O’Rourke writes in the Weekly Standard . Once a bastion of public scholarship so solemn it contained a section devoted to useful varieties of wood, the Field now panders unabashedly to the most intellectually lazy, politically correct misconceptions of the lives of the original Americans. More »

  • April 2008

    • Anne Frank Postcard Found

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 24, 08 4:20 AM CDT

      Anne Frank Postcard Found

      A postcard sent by Nazi victim Anne Frank to one of her best friends has been found in a Dutch antique shop, the BBC reports. The card, sent by the 8-year-old Anne in 1937, shows a Christmas bell in a snowy field and wishes her friend good luck for the New Year. Amsterdam's Anne Frank museum believes the card is authentic. More »

    • New China Museum Fuels Tibetan Anger

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 17, 08 11:59 AM CDT

      New China Museum Fuels Tibetan Anger

      China is accelerating construction of a number of museums ahead of August's Olympics, but one is sure to cause serious consternation: the first museum in Beijing devoted to Tibet. Antiquities and historical documents will be used to underline the claim that Tibet is an integral part of China, the New York Times reports—with the Dalai Lama edited out post-1959.  More »

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      China  • Tibet  • Dalai Lama  • history  • Tibetan independence  • museum

  • March 2008

    • SF Museum Cancels 'Animal Snuff' Art Show

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Mar 30, 08 8:13 AM CDT

      SF Museum Cancels 'Animal Snuff' Art Show

      Following death threats, a San Francisco art museum has canceled a controversial exhibit that included video clips of animals apparently being bludgeoned to death. "We remain committed to freedom of speech as fundamental to this institution, but we have to take people's safety very seriously," said the president of the San Francisco Art Institute. "We've gotten dozens of threatening phone calls that targeted specific staff people with death threats, threats of sexual assaults." More »

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      art  • San Francisco  • animal  • museum

  • January 2008
  • September 2007

    • Hog Wild: Harley-Davidson Museum Will Open in 2008

      newser  |  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  |  Sep 1, 07 9:57 AM CDT

      Hog Wild: Harley-Davidson Museum Will Open in 2008

      Elvis may have left the building, but his Harley will be there, along with a custom-built 13 footer dubbed "King Kong," when the Harley-Davidson hall of fame opens in hometown Milwaukee in 2008. The 20-acre museum hopes to draw 350,000 visitors a year, from bus loads of tourists to Harley die-hards on their homemade hogs, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. More »

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      museum  • Milwaukee  • motorcycle  • King Kong  • Harley Davidson

  • August 2007

    • Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online

      newser  |  Wired  |  Aug 13, 07 1:28 PM CDT

      Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online

      Dresden’s Old Masters Picture gallery is the first museum to create an online clone, now appearing in all its glory—down to the trash cans and fountains—as a location in the virtual reality game Second Life . The building’s 750 paintings have been reproduced digitally, as have the 37,000 square feet of the grounds itself, Wired reports More »

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      painting  • museum  • Second Life  • Art Basel  • Dresden

  • May 2007

    • Death Camps May Charge Admission

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  May 31, 07 5:53 AM CDT

      Death Camps May Charge Admission

      Nazi concentration camps need to start charging visitors an entrance fee, those who run them say; subsidies from the German government aren't adequate for upkeep and tour guides for millions of pilgrims who visit every year. The proposal has prompted outrage from German Jews, the London Times reports.  More »

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      Germany  • Nazi  • Holocaust  • Jews  • museum  • ticket  • concentration camp  • Auschwitz  • Ronald Lauder  • Dachau

    • Museum Bids to Turn eBay to Art

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  May 29, 07 9:16 AM CDT

      Museum Bids to Turn eBay to Art

      Ebay as high culture? The Shelburne Museum in Vermont is showcasing the online auction winnings of celebs such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bianca Jagger, and John Lurie, in an exhibition titled "Got eBay? Celebrity Collections Created Online." Museum director Stephen Jost gave a group of big names $1000 each to bid on eBay items and create a personal collection, which together form the art project. More »

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      eBay  • Vermont  • online auction  • Jerry Seinfeld  • museum  • art museum  • contemporary art

    • Creationists Open History Museum

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 24, 07 5:40 PM CDT

      Creationists Open History Museum

      A $27 million museum opening in Kentucky next week promises a different kind of take on natural history: a biblical one. At the Creation Museum, the Earth is 6,000 years old, evolution is a yarn, and dinosaurs were booked on Noah's Ark. More »

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      religion  • evolution  • Kentucky  • museum  • creationism  • natural history

    • Artist Gets Museum Show, Whether He Likes It or Not

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 22, 07 7:17 AM CDT

      Artist Gets Museum Show, Whether He Likes It or Not

      A New England museum will display an artist's work against his will, the New York Times reports. Swiss provocateur Christoph Büchel, who recreates environments for visitors to wander through, shut down his show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art after a squabble over budget constraints. But the museum is defiantly opening the exhibition anyway—wrapping pieces with giant tarps until a court gives the nod. More »

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      art  • museum  • artist  • contemporary art

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