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Thomas Hoving, Best-Selling Author and Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum...

Thomas Hoving, Best-Selling Author and Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joins artnet as Contributor to artnet Magazine NEW YORK & BERLIN--(Business Wire)-- artnet is pleased to announce that Thomas Hoving, best-selling author and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has joined artnet as a contributor to artnet Magazine. A renowned museum executive, Hoving was first a curator (1959-65) and then director (1967-77) of the Met, where he presided over a dramatic expansion of both the museum and its audience. He specialized in high-profile acquisitions of masterworks -- an abiding interest, and the subject of his first artnet Magazine column -- as well as opening the museum to a broader and more youthful public via blockbuster exhibitions like "King Tut.

Wuhan to build new 1911 Revolution Museum

The city of Wuhan in Hubei Province has decided to invest 300 million yuan to build the 1911 Revolution Museum (New Museum), creating a commemorative 1911 Revolution national landmark to welcome the 100th anniversary grand ceremony of the Revolution of 1911. The total construction area of the 1911 Revolution Museum is approximately 30,000 square meters. The Museum will shoulder four main functions: storage of 1911 Revolution relics (relics of historical figures, historical events information); an exhibition of the Revolution's history; Wuhan modern history research and academic exchanges; and integrated services.

Delaware Art Museum Presents Gifted: Recent Additions To The Permanent Collection

Wilmington, DE— The Delaware Art Museum presents Gifted: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, an exhibition featuring more than 30 works of art given to the Delaware Art Museum since its reopening in June 2005, on view July 12-November 9, 2008. Paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and ceramics—including works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection—will be featured. Gifted offers visitors a glimpse into how the Museum’s collection grows through the generosity of collectors.

Carlow County Museum

Carlow Town Council & Carlow County Council in association with the Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society are upgrading and improving Carlow County Museum. This includes the development of a new Museum premises on College Street adjoining the Tourist Office in Carlow town. To facilitate these improvement works the Museum will be closed until further notice.

Movement expected on Jewish World War II fighter museum

Over five years since planning began, a museum project commemorating the role of 1.5 million Jewish soldiers in World War II has yet to get off the ground, complained veterans before the Knesset Public Petitions Committee on Tuesday. But the muscle behind the museum's establishment, Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Zvi Kan-Tor, CEO of the Association for Establishing the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in WWII, said that in the coming weeks, the picture will change entirely.

Museum of the African Diaspora

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NATIONAL MUSEUM: Breaking all the rules

Since the museum is the central bank of a nation’s culture, every country’s capital boasts at least one major repository. The US capital, Washington DC is home to The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum chain. The British capital London has, among other museums, British Museums, while Berlin, seat of the German government boasts 167 museums.

Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Unprecedented Gathering of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

Phoenix Art Museum presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore and understand the ongoing link of contemporary Asian art with centuries of tradition. This summer, beginning July 8, 2008, the Museum presents A Tradition Redefined, four extraordinary exhibits focused of Asian art from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Highlighting this exceptional show, is "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection," the first exhibition to present an overall, comprehensive picture of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese ink painting.

Iowa 80 Museum Visitors Center grand opening set for July 10

The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum will celebrate the opening of its new Museum Visitors Center with a ribbon cutting at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 10, during the Walcott Truckers Jamboree.

Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Unprecedented Gathering of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

PHOENIX, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/30/08 -- Phoenix Art Museum presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore and understand the ongoing link of contemporary Asian art with centuries of tradition. This summer, beginning July 8, 2008, the Museum presents A Tradition Redefined, four extraordinary exhibits focused of Asian art from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Highlighting this exceptional show, is "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection," the first exhibition to present an overall, comprehensive picture of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese ink painting.

Paolo Orsi Museum Displays the Wealth of Sicilys Greek Colonies

The glory Sicily had with the Greek colonies of two thousand five hundred years ago was the high point of Sicilian history,” said the museum display in the “Paolo Orsi” Museum in Syracuse, Sicily. “Modern Sicily is a shadow of the greatness it had under the Greeks.” This fact written by persons who were not Greek totally astonished me during the 2005 Arba Sicula (Sicilian dawn) Tour. It continued to mesmerize me during my return visit in the 2008 Arba Sicula tour.

Chanel Mobile Museum brings art to your city via alien spacecraft

Zaha Hadid has a reputation from some far out designs, but her latest work for Chanel pushes the envelope into outer space. The Chanel Contemporary Art Container was designed to move from city to city displaying various works of art, appropriately, the component structure looks exactly like an alien spacecraft. Featuring exhibits by the likes of Yoko Ono (displaying an interactive Wish Tree), Michael Li, Loris Cecchini, and photographers Stephen Shore and Nobuyoshi Araki, the museum debuted in Hong Kong, immediately sold out in Tokyo (it's still running until Friday, July 4th) and is scheduled to hit New York in October, London and Moscow in 2009 and Paris in 2010. You can enter the museum's seriously trippy multimedia website here.

15th century sculpture broken in NY Met museum

New York, U.S.- A 15th century terracotta sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Andrea della Robbia fell to the ground inside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and broke into pieces, the museum said.

15th-century sculpture broken at New York museum

A glazed terra cotta relief by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia came loose overnight from its perch above a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and crashed to the stone floor below, seriously damaging it, museum officials said Tuesday.

UK Government: Three new free museums to 'grace' Liverpool as part of European Capital of Culture

The Museum of Liverpool, the International Slavery Museum and the University of Liverpool's Victoria Gallery and Museum have today been added to the list of museums and galleries that give free access to their permanent collections.

Indonesian Curator Sentenced for Theft

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian curator Suhadi Darmodipuro has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for helping steal six ancient Buddhist statues and replace them with replicas, the Associated Press reports. The 70-year-old curator at the Radya Pustaka Museum was one of four people arrested in connection with the 2006 crime, in which a number of stone statues from the 4th century were stolen and sold to a Dutch curator for $3,500 to $20,000 each. Replicas made by local stonemasons were then put on display in the museum. The originals were later found in the house of a wealthy businessman in Jakarta. "I've given 50 years of my life to service the museum," said Darmodipuro after the verdict. "It was a big mistake...I very much regret it and accept this sentence.

Museum will have a touch of home: Kitchen products made locally will be focus of exhibits

Jun. 29--WEST BEND -- A 20th-century history of American kitchenware manufactured in Washington County -- from the introduction of lightweight aluminum pots and pans to the convenience of waterless cookers, electric corn poppers, hot dog steamers and salad spinners -- will be displayed at a new museum to open in November.

Harley Museum to open in Milwaukee

The museum, scheduled to open July 12, includes a 1903 Harley, the company's first, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In addition to motorcycles, there are bicycles, snowmobiles and golf carts, all products from Harley's past.

Harley Museum to open in Milwaukee

The museum, scheduled to open July 12, includes a 1903 Harley, the company's first, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In addition to motorcycles, there are bicycles, snowmobiles and golf carts, all products from Harley's past.

British Museum hit by pay strike

British Museum staff are striking for four hours over what they say is a "totally inadequate" pay offer.

Meadows Museum Presents Jack Kilby: The Eye of Genius - Photographs by the Inventor of the Microchip, July 12 - September 21, 2008

Meadows Museum Presents Jack Kilby: The Eye of Genius - Photographs by the Inventor of the Microchip, July 12 - September 21, 2008

Berkshire Museum Offers 'Mobile Art Studio'

The Berkshire Museum in downtown Pittsfield will offer the hands-on art program, “Mobile Art Studio,” every Saturday from July 5 through August 30. Visitors may drop by the studio cart in the galleries anytime between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to make arts and crafts related to the exhibition Look@Us.

British Museum is UK's most popular

The British Museum has overtaken Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the Tate Modern to become the nation's most popular cultural attraction.

British Museum favourite UK attraction

The British Museum has had its most successful year since it started counting visitors - and probably since its foundation in 1753. In the financial year 2007-08, a record 6 million people came through the doors, including 35,000 who visited on a single day to celebrate the Chinese new year.

British Museum 'is Britain's most popular attraction'

The British Museum has overtaken Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the Tate Modern to become the nation's most popular cultural attraction.

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