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Architecture Now! Didn’t hear a please in there.
The Art of the Steal in review.
Museums aren’t cricket.
Buy one get one free at New York museums.
What privileges are worth $18.50?
Have artists missed the rise of the violent woman?
The Field Museum has a Certified Wine Specialist.
Some go to Florence to see things, some go to get a Look at the Invisible.
Sure, they’ve got plenty of flour, but can they spare a cup of sugar?
A New York that only looks miniature.
Who knew museum employees were underpaid? Oh wait, everyone.
A film and movie memorabilia bazaar to remedy the plight of the Cinema Museum.
That’s no whaler…Putting a face to a medical miracle.
11 European museums not to miss
Book recommendation for the historically or architecturally oriented museum-lover.
Coolest kids ever
Great newsletter, congratulations!
Tips for online fundraising/marketing
Which was better: the book or the museum?
This TNT will leave a mark.
Let’s start a rEvolution
Indie Travel Podcast Magazine
A birthday and a cheap hotel stay.
MOOM’s Summer Exhibits
I just like the pretty colors
Scuba diving: just the way to make religion a little more interesting
Office furniture as art
“Warning signs should be at least as large as the exposed genitalia.”
Paris’ Nuit Blanche
Gifts with soul
Hidden art in London, well at least 10
Map addicts not-so-anonymous
Naval Battle Art Project with mandatory togas
Children’s Museum and Libraries Series: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (not out yet).
Your parents wanted you to be a doctor…you decided to be a specialist in art crime?
Walkabout in London
Picasso lived here
Google travel itineraries
Apparently extinct is not a permanent diagnosis
No 3-D glasses needed
First came the burning river, then the aquarium.
Owned and operated by the Colonial Dames of America…now there is a group of women I would like to meet.
Boston’s museums for less.
Lost marbles
A look at Banksy’s Bristol exhibit
Don’t forget your spray paint
Museums of the 21st Century
Um…well, I will take the safe bet and say: creationists?
Voice Your Vision for the Smithsonian’s Future.
Ka’iulani: Activist princess.
Art and luxury hotels in Madrid.
In Picasso’s footsteps.
Paul Orselli’s latest: here, here, and here.
Swine flu inspired art?
More than just a place to rest your head.
Portland on the cheap.
Disney the man.
Continuing with the London postings…two more exhibits.
I’m Henry the Eighth I am.
If it ain’t Baroque, it doesn’t belong in this exhibit.
Smart as an orangutan.
Paris: where art and music meet in a small gallery.
Happy Birthday, Chester Zoo!
Criminal art.
Healthy art.
William Blake exhibit: round 2.
Vermeer…if he were a Russian photographer.
Art at a glance.
London Transportation Late Nights
The exhibits are wooden, in a good way.
Prescribed or proscibed interaction? You be the judge.
Using wikis to write museum labels?
Did you know there were hundreds of museums in Western North Carolina?
Virtual visits
Merkel on Museum Island…with a bomb
Swine flu causes museum closings.
Museums on the move
Erotic pottery and gold in Lima
Forensic Fridays
Infographics done right
What’s the fine if you don’t bring them back?
Who owns what in art history?
Da Vinci in the cathedral.
Art Week Austin. April 22-26.
Let’s talk about it…in DC.
Forget past lives, what are you in second life?
What have you done for me lately?
A Prado podcast.
A Chernobyl exhibit.
When the Mona Lisa went missing.
Need typography?
Boston colors.
Scavenger hunting in Italy.
A devastating earthquake + an ancient hilltop town + a controversial art-collecting mayor + homes for a euro + plans for a mafia museum = Salemi reborn.
Gehry on Gehry.
Backyard aquariums.
Chicago Artist/Gallery News: here, here, here, and here.
New Holocaust Memorial Museum in Skokie, Illinois. Here and here.
Smithsonian weekly roundup.
Today’s Homeschool Field Trip: The Walters Art Museum.
An argument for suggested admission rates.
How do you say “partnership” in Italian?
Escape the Museum
Is it really surprising that visitors don’t want to pay $20?
From Within Outward? I guess that is one way to name the Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright show.
Two D.C. art galleries closing.
Canada is calling: Little-known Montreal museums.
Museums that both adults and kids will like. Only 5 CNN?
Museum attendance is up…in case you hadn’t heard.
IMA’s deaccessioning database.
Love architecture? Check out these 100 Flickr collections.
State regulation of museum deaccessioning?
Liminal: A Question of Position opens tonight at Rivington Place.
Presenting fishy water. I mean, the 4D experience at the NY Aquarium.
D.C. museum lectures
It’s one of the 10 oldest general art museums in the U.S. plus 24 other random facts about the IMA.
Find out how Nazi looted art on display in a US museum is “a wrong made right.”
Would the Rose by any other name stir up this much damned controversy?
Somehow the Creation Museum seems a more appropriate choice.
Carravaggio: painter, murderer, photographer?
Sharing caring.
If you find yourself in Mexico City, why not check out the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia?
Sexy Denmark?
American painting collection at the National Gallery.
36 hours in Madrid.
Lesser-known New York museums.
Where are the women?
Do insiders know best?
Interview with Angie Elliott, art conservator and archaeologist.
Art Institute of Chicago write up.
New York’s Armory Show
Is that a naked man in your handbag?
Historical manuscripts on display in Norwich
View how people view you.
Wow, this art was missing for about as long as I have been alive.
A brief tribute to the Musee Malliol
Paul Orselli wants to know what museums you think are worth a special trip.
If you rebuild it, they will come.
A modern-day children’s museum and a nineteenth-century village could be roommates.
Connor Prairie living history museum feels the crunch.
National Museum of Wales chats about the collection.
Even this museum is jumping on the whole “make the museum more accessible” bandwagon. Bravo.
Pinky the Cat on the logic of museums.
Islamic art museum in Qatar.
A time capsule in Greenwich Village.
Rothko put to music.
Proud Papa…at 111.
Any updates on these stolen Howson paintings?
So, what’s the big idea? Click here to find out.
Are British museums unique?
Archers at the ready. Gascon Rolls going online.
Thomas Harriot trying to get some recognition.
“even in Rome, where tourists are as reliable as death and taxes, and probably more reliable than people who pay taxes.”
A dozen distinctive destinations. Ah, alliteration.
The comedy and the cemetary.
Gainsborough portraits on display for the first time in 120 years.
Postcards from Iran and from synagogues. An interesting juxtaposition.
Oh no, did someone get dysentary or did a wagon wheel break?
Photographic reproduction based on Art in the Picture.
Londonist features the Horniman
Jailed gangsters make money the legal way.
And this inspiration is…drumroll please…the Ford Capri!
Riga-rous culture
New Curator discusses UK visitor numbers, bussing, and underwater museums.
A face only a mother could love.
Medicinal timeline.
Charities and online fundraising.
Which came first: the creative space or the creative person?
Panel discussion on non-profit visual arts organizations.
Hamilton Artists fellowships.
Seriously, was anyone not a spy during WWII?
God in Public Schools. Would he be on the football or the debate team?
This week’s events at the Smithsonian.
Curious how Shakespeare works in Arab cultures? Well, apparently you’re not the only one.
Play/Pause at the Whippersnapper Gallery
Woman Made Gallery’s 12th International Open
Of course zoos matter. And porcupines do too.
The National Library of Wales has a secret cave.
Museums devoted to film stars.
Last time I checked The Hobbit was not set in Southeast Asia.
National Mall neglected?
Like the 13th century is old or something.
These pictures make the snowmen I built as a child look plain sad.
Hemingway Museum in Cuba goes digital.
Art Basel dates.
Kubrick’s unmade film featured in Bristish Film Institute exhibit.
Palladio pictorial.
Apprentice program for historic preservation. Sounds more entertaining than Donald Trump to me.
Street art walking tours in Melbourne.
Babylon: Myth and Reality running at British Museum through March 15.
Any word on whether these paintings have been found yet?
It’s not everyday that you find a 17th century ship in your apartment building.
This isn’t an And Then There Were None scenario is it?
Art thiefs and forgers are sexy. Well, they’re pretty darn interesting at the very least.
What’s the next installment? Abstract: Part 3?
Use your hands. You can use your words too if you’d like.
See what they’ve unearthed as they build for the Olympics.
Late Night at the V&A. Home away from home?
Visitor attraction numbers are up in London.
Now there’s a Pollack I can appreciate.
The Storytellers Art exhibit.
Did you know that a group of meerkats is called a mob? Now you do.
Can’t promise that a visit to the Ferrari Museum will make you any cooler, but it’s worth a shot.
You say graffiti, I say graffiti…I still don’t mind it.
You’re so Bourgeois. Well, you would be if you were at the Hirshorn.
Feeling crafty? Check out this exhibit.
Wanna be in a museum? Liverpool museums are looking for submissions.
Sometimes smaller is better.
A Tale of Two Countries: Art of Two Germanys at LACMA.
Apparently fauve is the new red at Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s latest exhibit.
Hirshorn names new director.
Hiphop-notsoanonymous. Caption writing contest at the Smithsonian.
A philatelist, president, and married to a supermodel.
Now that’s a quick turnaround.
Scotland’s most visited attraction.
Hooray for saving an endangered species, but a jumping rat? Really?
I like him better than Blagojevich already.
Two Scottish museums among finalists for Art Fund prize.
Calling all Romanian-speaking donkey whisperers…your services are needed.
The Baghdad Museum may not be complete, but Italy is launching a virtual version of the newly reopened museum.
Is selling copyright the same as deaccessioning?
Is art about engaging the community or the artist’s own ego? Some interesting comments over at Art21.
Poetry of the Ordinary. Keith Carter named artist of the year by Houston Art League.
Sound in Space at Sea and Space. Say that 10 times fast.
World Monuments Watch nominations due March 15.
Welcome to the Blogosphere Powerhouse Museum Research Library!
The Art Museum in Vegas may be closing, but you can always go see Wayne Newton if you’re in the mood for a classic.
Oceanic art in San Diego
I think it is safe to say that the Vatican is a “please don’t touch” museum.
Need a circus fix? Then head to Baltimore.
So, there is ant music. But will the ants dance?
Today class, we will build a wall.
They don’t look like the Loch Ness Monster.
I Can’t Feel My Face
Feeling scholarly? Tips for studying education in museums.
Fresco found. Hooray!
Chicago’s Golden Age at the Driehaus
Empathetic children.
Thursday is a day of remembrance at Smithsonian. Wanna know why?
Fro the Greener Good
Ori Gerscht at the Hirshorn tonight
Top 10 Things to do in Florence
The Art of Architecture opens in London.
Judy Chicago times two. Here and here.
Good pairings: The Ritz London and The Royal Academy of Arts
World War II in color. No, not Saving Private ryan.
I wear jeans to work most days, but apparently not at this museum.
A brief tour of the Khanenko Museum in Kiev.
Of course, in Paris you would just stumble on an open air sculpture garden.
In case you were wondering, the Block Museum’s art is not for sale.
Art in Second Life
Sacramento Museum Day was apparently a success
The posters in my dorm room weren’t worth as much as this guy’s poster collection.
Rick Steves updates Ireland and Britain as well.
Wind turbines? Now that is creative
From an icon of hope to an icon of tort reform
A fake Guggenheim?
Art in the subway sure makes the smelly guy next to me a whole lot more pleasant.
Someone call Brendan Fraser…there are mummies on the loose!
Musty and dusty? Not us, we’ve got dinosaurs!
Etsy now has guest curators
Frank Lloyd Wright and His Women
A five-year plan for public art.
If you’re in Vienna, like museums, have cash to spend, and need a place to stay…check out the Grand Hotel Wien.
It’s another girl!
See, I’m not the only one with Rockwell on the brain.
Rick Steves’ updates Italy
Seeking: a dilapidated but historically relevant building
It’s a Girl!
Contemporary Museum of Arts in Houston has a new take on the book club
Tate Triennial in pictures
Welsh works coming across the pond
The Silk Road is online. Now if only I could get my dad on the internet.
Tuymans and Marshall: Motivational Speakers?
No bones about it
Doesn’t look like a Porsche
Vintage snowmobiles! Why is this the first I have heard of this?
Better a museum than a car park if you ask me.
Why let plagiarism get in the way of a good gallery opening?
Pandas do it, at least they do at Prospect Park Zoo
They have art and rodeos, but do they have an art rodeo?
He said, he said.
Bet they don’t sell that in the museum store
Home sweet Henry Moore
Parks, monuments, and historic sites, oh my!
Titian secured
Way better than a garden gnome
Walk like an animal. Or maybe not.
Glass replicates life
The National Mall and its Chicago roots
Check out the new exhibits at the Museum of Online Museums
Staten Island isn’t so bad. Look, it even has museums.
Oxford Museum lives to see another day
Art museum trail
Smart kids learn about…museums.
Meanwhile, Barak is headed to Orlando. Well, at least a gumball version is.
Michelle Obama’s dress is headed to the Smithsonian
Modern art, meet Scotland
Times may be tough, but in Pittsburgh attendance is up.
Disturbed or just trying to avoid late book fees? Man jailed for stealing from British library.
Lost and found photographs
Freund exhibit
Dear John, I gave all your stuff to a museum
HearPlanet, There Planet
Van Bruggen leaves her mark
Maybe they just don’t understand?
Please Touch goes Big
Some say he is evil, I say he’s artistic
Jails feel the crunch
Dating agency for parrots
Football and culture, something for both sexes
Retirement home for space shuttles
Be careful where you step and bring your own salt shaker
Wallet-friendly (and cultural) fun in Dallas
Submarine? Nope, scrap metal
National Endowment for the Humanities brings the art to you
Online sculpture archive
New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show
Streets around Grand Palace to become a little bit grander
MOCA Bailout here, here, and here
UK’s oldest museum to close for a year
Quality Assured Visitor Attraction
Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? Bet this wasn’t on your list
Knut needs a friend
Museum cost-saving?
Contemporary archaeology / redefining the field
