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  • Plum Benefit to Cultural Post: Tax-Free Housing

    08/11/2010 9:56:04 AM PDT · by Leisler · 9 replies
    New York Pravda Times ^ | August 9, 2010 | KEVIN FLYNN and STEPHANIE STROM
    In addition to her $877,000 compensation package, Ellen V. Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, lives rent free in a $5 million East Side apartment that the museum bought when she came aboard. he Metropolitan Museum of Art houses its director, Thomas P. Campbell, in a $4 million co-op that it owns across Fifth Avenue from the museum. The director of the Museum of Modern Art, Glenn D. Lowry, may have the best deal of all. In addition to the $2 million in salary and benefits he earned last year, he lives in a $6 million condo...
  • Race is on for museums to host retired space shuttles

    05/27/2010 10:55:46 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 12 replies · 471+ views
    AFP via Space Travel ^ | 5/26/2010 | AFP via Space Travel
    US museums are wasting no time in jostling to showcase the three retiring space shuttles after Atlantis touched down on Earth this week, capping the last scheduled mission of its 25-year career. "No doubt the competition is fierce," said Bill Moore, chief operating officer of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. His institution is among some 21 others competing to preserve and exhibit the Atlantis, Discovery or Endeavour space shuttles. The trio is being retired after President Barack Obama opted not to fund a successor program, deciding instead to encourage private spacecraft development. NASA has announced it would...
  • Shuttles For Sale

    01/31/2010 6:03:41 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 24 replies · 919+ views
    Air and Space Magazine ^ | 3/01/2010 | Guy Gugliotta
    Want the ultimate space collectible? Consider a space shuttle. The orbiters have flown 29 years and have a few miles on them (tens of millions), but soon all three will be up for grabs. Some time this year—right now it looks like September 30—NASA plans to shut down the program. For all the shuttle’s successes in missions like deploying satellites, fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, and building the International Space Station, flying it was always risky. Two orbiters were lost, Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003, killing 14 astronauts. Now NASA says it will donate the ones remaining— Atlantis,...
  • Meghan McCain Visits New Museum Party [hangs out with HuffPo peeps too] [super barf]

    07/07/2009 4:47:06 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 25 replies · 1,056+ views
    On Tuesday, June 30, a young woman in what looked like an off-the-shoulder slinky black jumpsuit and tall patent leather heels drifted into a party at the New Museum celebrating "The Generation: Younger Than Jesus," the triennial exhibit featuring 50 international artists under the age of 33 that ended on Sunday, July 5. Other guests thought she was "nice" and "pretty" and "friendly." Then someone pointed out that the peroxide blonde in question, who was also wearing a fringed silver belt and gold hoop earrings, was Meghan McCain, the feisty blogger and daughter of former Republic presidential candidate John McCain....
  • new El Marco photo essay: Selling Drugs and Revolution to Children in America

    06/13/2009 4:58:46 AM PDT · by el marco · 1 replies · 655+ views
    El Marco's new photo essay exposes how the Denver Art Museum is promoting LSD and radical revolution to today's generation of children. This in-depth study uncovers how a public institution is undermining the city it is supposed to serve. The shocking history of the Psychedelic Movement in San Francisco is juxtaposed with real tragedy in today's recovery community in Denver. http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/06/drugs-and-revolution-to-children-at-dam/
  • Where Is the Gun That Shot [the late S. Korean President] Park Chung-hee?

    02/02/2009 8:10:29 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 290+ views
    The Chosun Ilbo ^ | February 3, 2009 | Yoo Jong-pil, chief librarian at the National Assembly Library.
    I received an e-mail from Sun-ae Evans, a Korean staff member at the Smithsonian who had been my guide during a visit to U.S. libraries and other institutions. "With the Smithsonian extremely busy in preparation for the Lincoln bicentennial, I came to think about Korea. The gun that was used to assassinate president Park Chung-hee, the clothes he wore that day, the bottles of liquor and glasses, and the other miscellaneous items -- are they being well preserved?" What we safeguard now can become important in the way the items related to Lincoln have. Korea is changing very quickly, and...
  • Greece welcomes home Parthenon marble from Italy

    09/26/2008 6:02:19 PM PDT · by eleni121 · 20 replies · 637+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sept. 24, 2008 | Daniel Flynn and Renee Maltezou
    ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Greece welcomed home a small fragment of the Parthenon marbles on Wednesday and expressed hope the gesture by the Italian government would prompt Britain to return its own prized collection of Greek sculpture
  • Pensacola Naval Air Museum labor of love for military retirees

    08/04/2008 9:34:22 AM PDT · by llevrok · 29 replies · 195+ views
    PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Florida (AP) -- Ed Ellis steps across the National Naval Aviation Museum into the aircraft that was Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Chester Nimitz's flying headquarters during World War II. "If this plane could talk," said the 67-year-old retired Navy captain, longing to hear the conversations that happened aboard the vintage PB2Y Coronado. "Nearly every Navy admiral in the Pacific was in here." The Coronado -- the first U.S. plane to land in Tokyo after the war -- is the latest restoration project undertaken by the museum's mostly volunteer staff of hundreds of military retirees. Located at...
  • After 100 Years, Tribe’s Ancestors Head Home

    06/10/2008 4:18:50 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 14 replies · 83+ views
    NY Times ^ | June 10, 2008 | CARA BUCKLEY
    Sssr ProductionsChief Vern Jacks, second from left, and his wife, Cora, at the American Museum of Natural History to accept the remains of tribe members. James Estrin/The New York Times“Our Journey Home” took Chief Vern Jacks and his wife, Cora, to the American Museum of Natural History on Monday. A hushed group of people, nearly four dozen strong, slipped into the American Museum of Natural History early Monday, ahead of the crowds. Their cheeks were smeared with rust-colored dye, red and white woven bands encircled their heads, snip... ...these 46 visitors were there for an altogether different purpose: to...
  • When Worlds Collide: The American past meets modern museum doctrine.

    06/04/2008 3:34:21 AM PDT · by billorites · 24 replies · 61+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | June 9, 2008 | P.J. O'Rourke
    The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago has a new permanent exhibit of savagery and barbarism, "The Ancient Americas." The ancient Americans themselves are not portrayed as savage or barbarous. (How surprising. Knock me over with a feather.) The savages and barbarians are the museum's curators. They plunder history, ravage archaeology, do violence to intelligence, and lay waste to wisdom, faith, and common sense. At the Field Museum, the bygone aboriginal inhabitants of our hemisphere are shown to be regular folks, the same as you and me, although usually more naked and always more noble. Ancient Americans have attained...
  • In pictures: Ancient Roman paintings

    12/21/2007 11:46:49 AM PST · by WesternCulture · 49 replies · 3,845+ views
    news.bbc.co.uk ^ | 12/21/2007 | news.bbc.co.uk
    A unique exhibition of 2,000-year-old paintings called Pompeian Red has opened at the National Museum of Rome.
  • Milwaukee loves beer - and museums too

    04/09/2007 12:48:19 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 257+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/9/07 | Carrie Antlfinger - ap
    MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee still loves beer. But arts, culture, museums and festivals are on tap, too. That's the image Milwaukee officials are trying to promote in an effort to attract more tourists. "In a sense we have it all," said Dave Fantle, spokesman for Visit Milwaukee, which markets the area. "We have it all in a neat package. It's a matter of getting our arms around that package and promoting it and letting the world know about all the attributes that are here in Milwaukee." New projects in Milwaukee in recent years have included the Midwest Airlines convention center; the...
  • A President Felled by an Assassin and 1880’s Medical Care

    07/28/2006 2:25:42 PM PDT · by neverdem · 36 replies · 1,363+ views
    New York Times ^ | July 25, 2006 | AMANDA SCHAFFER
    National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Garfield lingered on his deathbed for 80 days, attended by doctors who disagreed on his treatment, and by his wife and daughter. Even Alexander Graham Bell tried to help locate the bullet that was lodged in the president. Correction Appended WASHINGTON — Three vertebrae, removed from the body of President James A. Garfield, sit on a stretch of blue satin. A red plastic probe running through them marks the path of his assassin’s bullet, fired on July 2, 1881. The vertebrae form the centerpiece of a new exhibit, commemorating...
  • Artifacts of Conversion, Martyrdom and Devotion

    03/23/2006 7:53:09 PM PST · by NYer · 4 replies · 273+ views
    Zenit News Agency ^ | March 23, 2006 | Elizabeth Lev
    ROME, MARCH 23, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Along with spring showers, March has brought a glorious reawakening of Roman art. Two new exhibits opened this week, one at the Vatican Museums and the other in the prestigious Scuderie del Quirinale, the former stables of the papal Quirinal residence, redesigned to hold the city's most important exhibitions. The Vatican Museums, as part of their 500th anniversary celebrations that will last all year, reorganized and reopened their Christian Museum. Complementing the Pio Christian Museum which contains ancient Christian sarcophagi, this collection displays hundreds of small objects found in the catacombs or in Christian sites...
  • The Case of the Purloined, Unauthenticated Pollock

    03/14/2006 4:07:52 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 4 replies · 177+ views
    NY Times ^ | March 14, 2006 | PAUL VITELLO
    Michael J. Mullen/Scranton Times-Tribune, via Associated PressEverhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art in Scranton, Pa. Everhart Museum, via Associated Press"Winter in Springs," a drip painting attributed to Jackson Pollock. EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Unlike the problem posed in 2003, when a cache of 32 supposed Jackson Pollocks was found in a storage bin on Long Island, this Pollock problem began when a painting attributed to the artist suddenly disappeared. About 2 a.m. on Nov. 18, 2005, "Winter in Springs," a 40-by-32-inch drip painting attributed to Pollock, was stolen from the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and...
  • Stressed workers enjoy art for heart's sake

    01/10/2006 5:06:36 AM PST · by Republicanprofessor · 5 replies · 173+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Monday January 9, 2006 | Hugh Muir
    Visiting an art gallery may be the perfect antidote to stress, according to research. Analysis of 28 City high flyers who spent their lunch break viewing art found their stress levels fell by 45% after 40 minutes at the Guildhall art gallery in London.
  • Rewriting Victors' View of Persian History

    09/13/2005 11:55:04 PM PDT · by neverdem · 37 replies · 854+ views
    NY Times ^ | September 14, 2005 | ALAN RIDING
    LONDON, Sept. 11 - An early reference to Alexander of Macedon is the first hint of where the British Museum is heading in its new exhibition, "Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia." After all, to Persians then and Iranians now, there was nothing great about the Alexander who crushed the largest empire the world had yet known. Indeed, his burning of Persepolis in 331 B.C. was considered an act of vandalism. But the show, which runs through Jan. 8, goes further, challenging the version of history that ancient Greece, starting with Herodotus, bequeathed to the West. Put simply, in...
  • Best barbecue in Memphis? And Baton Rouge, too.

    07/26/2005 8:14:10 PM PDT · by Max Flatow · 8 replies · 1,825+ views
    July 25, 2005 | Max Flatow
    The wife and I are heading down to Memphis, TN for a short trip. What else is there to do besides tour Graceland? I heard there was a cool shopping district not far from Graceland. Where is the best barbecue in town and where is the best place to find a safe economical motel that is close by to attractions? Also heading on to Baton Rouge, LA. Where is a decent but economical place to stay in that town? A pool would be a plus. Is everything off of I-10 in BR? I appreciate all your help and responses. TIA....
  • Smithsonian faces $2 billion repair bill

    07/16/2005 12:16:21 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies · 475+ views
    The Art Newspaper ^ | Saturday, 16 July 2005 | Jason Edward Kaufman
    A government report has found that many of the institution’s buildings have fallen into disrepairWASHINGTON, DC. A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Smithsonian Institution requires urgent funding if it is to maintain its 660 buildings and care for the millions of objects, documents, and photographs in its collections over the next decade. The study describes “a broad decline” in the Smithsonian’s aging empire of 18 museums, 10 science centres and zoos, and other facilities, many of which have suffered “structural deterioration” and “chronic leaks” so severe that they have limited access to their...
  • Microprobe Makeover For Museum's Mummy (Australia)

    06/28/2005 11:03:38 AM PDT · by blam · 4 replies · 333+ views
    The Australian ^ | 6-28-2005 | Selina Mitchell
    Microprobe makeover for museum's mummy Selina Mitchell JUNE 28, 2005 THE CSIRO has teamed up with the National Gallery of Victoria to reconstruct and conserve the last resting place of a teenage Egyptian priestess who died around 700BC. The coffin lid, one of the first major Egyptian antiquities to arrive in Australia, is in a fragile state. About 60 per cent of the wood, and even more of its painted surface, are lost, but the original bright colours on the remaining pieces survive under layers of dirt – gallery officials think. "It's good that it's in many pieces, because unlike...