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museum stories: 35 news summaries

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Wanted: Museum Director
to Marry Art, Commerce

Unique job description complicates search for Guggenheim, Met, others

Jul 15, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

(Newser) - 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.... More »

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China • art museum • Chinese art • museum • culture

 How to Work Museums  
 Into Kids' Summers 

Teach your cubs something—and make sure they, and you, actually enjoy it

Jun 25, 08 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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
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parenting • museum • children • family • summer • outing

 Mexico's Secret Drug Museum 

Museum for the military tells the story of Mexico's drug war

Jun 21, 08 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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drugs • Mexico City • Mexico • museum • Mexican drug war • counternarcotics

OPINION

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

Museum 'patronizes, demeans' its subjects

Jun 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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museum • America • Incas • Aztecs • political correctness • Native Americans • Christopher Columbus • P.J. O'Rourke • Field Museum

 Anne Frank Postcard Found 

Dutch teacher discovers holiday greeting from young Holocaust victim

Apr 24, 08 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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museum • Amsterdam • concentration camp • Anne Frank • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

New China Museum Fuels Tibetan Anger

Beijing gallery pushes official version of Chinese history

Apr 17, 08 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 ... More »

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

SF Museum Cancels
'Animal Snuff' Art Show

6 animals bludgeoned with sledgehammer in video clips

Mar 30, 08 8:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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San Francisco • art • museum • animal • San Francisco Art Insitute

Russian Art Approved for UK Display

Moscow allows paintings to travel after diplomatic spat, fears of seizure

Jan 10, 08 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The Royal Academy in London will scramble to open a major exhibition of Russian-owned art after Russian officials finally granted permission to send the works to the UK, the Times of London reports. The show faced cancellation over Russian concerns that the works would be subject to seizure, a dispute... More »

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Russia • London • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • art • museum • painting • Matisse • London's Royal Academy

Hog Wild: Harley-Davidson Museum Will Open in 2008

The giant Milwaukee complex celebrates 105 years of motorcycle history

Sep 1, 07 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Milwaukee • museum • motorcycle • Harley Davidson • King Kong

Museum Looks Picture-Perfect Online

Dresden gallery gets virtual replica
in Second Life

Aug 13, 07 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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museum • painting • Second Life • Dresden • Cologne • Venice Biennale • Art Basel • Raphael • Old Masters

Death Camps May Charge Admission

Dachau, other German sites say they're running out of cash to support programs

May 31, 07 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 • Holocaust • Jews • museum • Dachau • concentration camp • Nazi • Auschwitz • Ronald Lauder • ticket

Museum Bids to Turn
eBay to Art

Vermont museum gives celebs $1000 to blow online, then curates finds

May 29, 07 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • eBay • art • museum • Bianca Jagger • John Lurie • Jerry Seinfeld • Shelburne Museum • Vermont • online auction

Creationists Open History Museum

On the sixth day, God created dinosaurs,
says curator

May 24, 07 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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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evolution • religion • creationism • Kentucky • natural history • museum

(Newser) - 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... More »

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contemporary art • art • Christoph Buchel • museum • artist

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