Art Museums

Barnes Foundation Opening In New Philly Location

AP | JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 05.16.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the ...

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Finland Rejects Guggenheim Proposal

AP | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Video, Axed Proposals, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Expensive, Buried Projects, Guggenheim, Finland, Helsinki, Art Museums, Paavo Arhinmaki, Arts News

HELSINKI — The Helsinki City Council has narrowly rejected a proposal to build a Guggenheim art museum in the Finnish capital. The council's bo...

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Getting Lost at the Museum of Fine Arts

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Boston, Science, Native Americans, Archeology, Boston University, Colonial America, History, Paintings, Art History, Art, Art Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Aztec Art, Mayan Art, Native American Art, Boston Museums, College News
Zoe P. Strassfield

That's what I love about museums -- every artwork or display is a window into another place, another time or another way of thinking.

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Brave New World: Who Muzzled All the Artists?

Richard Dare | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Meaning of Art, Museum Art, Purpose of Art, Art, Art Museums, Art Appreciation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Understanding Art, Culture News
Richard Dare

Art has always tended to speak truth to power, to enlighten us, to challenge us, to stretch our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe. It wasn't always so self-referential, so blasé, so up for grabs.

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Da VInci Masterpiece Aging, Tests Show

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Poland, Museums, Leonardo Da Vinci, Da Vinci, Poland's National Museum, Da Vinci Painting, Painting Aging, Art Museums, Lady With an Ermine, Arts News

WARSAW, Poland — Bark beetles and old age have damaged Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century painting "Lady with an Ermine," but the masterpiece is s...

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A Banquet for the Senses -- Day at the Museum

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 04.23.2012

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Patricia Crisafulli

Seeing what other humans can create with passion and intensity (and the right genetic proclivity) does make one wonder: What could I do?

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Albania's New Pavilion Sheds Light On Communist Abuses

AP | LLAZAR SEMINI | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: National Museum, Communism, Repressive Regime, Albania, Internment Camps, Enver Hoxha, Anti-Communism, Art Museums, Arts News

TIRANA, Albania — Albania's National Museum opened a new wing Monday on the abuses of the former communist regime, timing the dedication to the ...

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LA's Getty Museum Gets New Director

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 04.15.2012

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LOS ANGELES — An expert in ancient art who has overseen museums in England, the U.S. and his native Australia was named Tuesday to head the J. P...

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MAM Sells Out Miami

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Naming Rights, Miami Art Museum Sells Naming Rights, Art, Jorge M. Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County, Art Museums, Mam, Jorge Perez, Miami Art Museum, Miami News

Despite the current summit of contemporary artists and art collectors in Miami, the city did not make it onto the Atlantic's list of most artistic cit...

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Culture And Colors: An Autumn Sojourn To New England's Small Museums

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Portland Museum, Mead Museum, The Portland Museum of Art, Art, Clark Art Institute, Art Exhibit, Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Art Museums, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Whitney Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Arts News
Barbara Ernst Prey

In between museums I stop along the way... Late fall in New England offers some interesting exhibits for the cultural traveler and the last gas...

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Kate Abbey-Lambertz

Curator's Top Picks From The Cranbrook Art Museum (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 11.21.2011

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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH. -- On Nov. 11, the Cranbrook Art Museum opened its doors to the public after two years of renovations. Every piece in Cranb...

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The Museum As Transcendent Space

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Fred Tomaselli, Contemporary Art, Newspapers, Barnett Newman, Rothko, Libraries, Art Museums, George Segal, Arts News
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

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Gehry's Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Put On Hold

AP | By ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 12.24.2011

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The Abu Dhabi company building a branch of the Guggenheim museum in the Emirati capital said Sunday it has temporarily ...

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Bulgaria's Socialist Art Museum...Can We Take The Paintings Home?

AP | By VESELIN TOSHKOV | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Bulgaria, International Destinations, Museums, Socialism, Art Museums, Europe, Destinations, Europe Travel, Bulgaria Travel, Travel News

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Giant statues of Soviet dictators Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Paintings of enthusiastic socialist laborers. A huge red star th...

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Amazon Billionaire Gives $10 Million Seattle Museum

Local News | Amy Martinez | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Bezos Seattle Museum, Charity, Money, Bezos Mohai, Seattle Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Culture, Museum-Donations, Philanthropy, Museums, Bezos Donation, Art Museums, Donations, Bezos Museum, Bezos Museum of History and Industry, Money Donation, Arts News

Jeff Bezos, the self-made billionaire who started Amazon.com out of a Bellevue garage and built it into the world's dominant online retailer over the ...

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When Fashion Meets Art: The Top Exhibits

The Huffington Post | Analise Roland | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Couture, Jean Paul Gaultier, Art, Style, Museums, Fashion Art, Art Installation, Yves Saint Laurent, Fashion, Art Museums, Haute Couture, Fashion Exhibition, UK Arts, Culture, Culture News

Whereas other art may be confined to the halls of museums, there is one type that is created by the human form and lives on it: fashion. The most powe...

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How Do You Run A Museum After A Natural Disaster?

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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To Sean O'Harrow, becoming director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art seemed like an opportunity to think outside the box. "Because, right n...

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"Hide/Seek" Fallout: Interference Institutionalized at the Smithsonian

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Art Museums, Smithsonian Institution, G. Wayne Clough, Hide/Seek, National Portrait Gallery, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News
Lee Rosenbaum

If it follows the advice of a committee, Smithsonian museums will be buried under a new layer of procedural requirements for public input whenever a cautious curator flags a proposed exhibition as "sensitive."

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Shifting Shapes and Surprising Surfaces -- Museums Feature Material Innovators Picasso and Benglis

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cubism, Lynda Benglis, Debra Drexler, The New Museum, Pablo Picasso, Guitars, Minimalism, Art Museums, Robert G.Edelman, Moma, New York Art, Picasso Guitars, Guitars Moma, Moma Picasso, Arts News
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta

The array within visually demonstrates Picasso blazing the trail in material and form for so many artists who were, and are still, to follow.

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Chinese Government Funds Free Entry To Galleries, Libraries, Museums

news.xinhuanet.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's government has announced it will finance public libraries, art galleries and cultural centers to allow them to op...

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'Hide/Seek' Interview: Smithsonian Secretary Clough 'Can Do the Math' (But Miscalculates)

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, G. Wayne Clough, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Museums, Hide/Seek, National Portrait Gallery, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News
Lee Rosenbaum

How did Clough analyze the potential damage from the political, cultural and religious firestorm that erupted over his order to remove one work from the National Portrait Gallery's provocative, gay-themed "Hide/Seek" exhibition?

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ARCHITECTURE: Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Art Museum Opens In Rome

PLANET° | Posted 05.25.2011

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No other contemporary architect has a formal language as seductive and expressive as Zaha Hadid's. Her work has sidestepped the conventional forms of ...

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PHOTOS: 11 Cultural Things To Do For Free In Paris

Tom Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Meyers

Tourists flock to Paris to partake in the city's world-class museums, concerts, and exhibits. While all those admission charges can add up, budget tra...

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The Diminishing Role of Museums in Today's Art World

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Art, Michaelangelo, NY Culture, Moca, Silvio Berlusconi, LA Culture, Lacma, Art Museums, Gagosian Gallery, Eli Broad, Arts News
Edward Goldman

In the past, museums did honor to collectors by presenting their art, but now, with museums often priced out of major acquisitions, they are actively soliciting private collectors to exhibit their trophies.

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Reactionary vs. Revolutionary: Post-World War I & II Shows at Guggenheim and MoMA

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Classicism, Chaos and Classicism, Guggenheim Museum, Pablo Picasso, Art Museums, Kenneth Silver, Museum of Modern Art, Arts News
Lee Rosenbaum

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