Two Black Lawmakers to Boycott Trump’s Civil Rights Museum Visit
Bloomberg–15 hours ago
The museum is opening Saturday in Jackson, Mississippi, which Thompson has represented since 1993 and which was a focal point for the civil rights movement. It “promotes a greater understanding of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and its impact by highlighting the strength and sacrifices of its …
Moscow Gets a New Museum
The Moscow Times–1 hour ago
Another installation by Roman Seleznyov pays homage to Gilyarovsky with an artistic recreation of his office and clippings of his newspaper articles that reveal some of the first harsh reviews of his work when the lights are dimmed. If you’re in the city center over the weekend, stop in for the museum’s …
California Fires Enter the Heart of Los Angeles
New York Times–Dec 7, 2017
As fires raged out of control across Southern California, a new blaze erupted in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, near iconic landmarks like the U.C.L.A. campus and the Getty Museum, home to old masters paintings and ancient Roman statues. It burned up to the edges of the 405 freeway, the …
WWII Museum Breaking Ground for Hotel, Conference Center
U.S. News & World Report–3 hours ago
WWII Museum Breaking Ground for Hotel, Conference Center. The National World War II Museum ‘s latest expansion is getting under way in New Orleans. Dec. 8, 2017, at 4:40 a.m.. WWII MuseumBreaking Ground for Hotel, Conference Center …
Why Can’t People Stop Touching Museum Exhibits?
Atlas Obscura–Nov 10, 2017
A new Tumblr by the photographer Stefan Draschan—selections from which illustrate this article—is full of people poking paintings. Sometimes the transgression goes further, as with the famous Ecce Homo “restoration,” or the crossword puzzle collage, hung in the Neues Museum Nürnberg, that a visitor …
Gifts Tied to Opioid Sales Invite a Question: Should Museums Vet …
New York Times–Dec 1, 2017
Since the 1970s, the Sackler family has donated millions of dollars to prominent museums and cultural institutions. The name has become nearly synonymous with the arts. But two recent magazine articles, in The New Yorker and Esquire, have highlighted several family members’ connection to something …
NAACP Tells Trump to Stay Away From Mississippi Museum Opening
Bloomberg–Dec 5, 2017
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Tuesday the president’s planned travel to the opening of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Since reports surfaced Monday that Trump was planning the trip, civil rights leaders in …
CBS New York
Museum’s collection of Hamilton-Burr letters to be published
WBT–7 hours ago
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York museum’s collection of correspondence between Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr will be published next year in a book. The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown says $50,000 of the $70,000 in grants it has received from the Long …
Chicago Tribune
Notre Dame plans to build new $66 million campus art museum
WBT–2 hours ago
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The University of Notre Dame is planning construction of a new $66 million campus art museum. Notre Dame says the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art will be named in honor of longtime benefactors Ernestine Raclin and her daughter and son-in-law Carmen and Chris Murphy …
When It Comes to Contemporary Art, Miami Wants More, More, More
New York Times–Nov 30, 2017
MIAMI — Building a new contemporary art museum in Miami is easy. Just ask Irma Braman, a founder and co-chairwoman of the board of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, which opens in the Design District on Friday. “Norm was having lunch with Craig one day and said, ‘I’d love to have a museum.
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