Museums in the News

I'm enjoying the motivation that the Museum Daily series provides me, but as I've been off work this week, there's not so much daily museum stuff going on!  And sometimes, I like to go back to my old standard, Museums in the News.  Besides, there have been some really interesting stories from the last few months in the NY Times.  Enjoy!

• Noel in the Museum, Medieval Edition
• Reconsidered, a Met Velázquez Is Vindicated
• Museums Should Dig In

• And a letter from the director of the Met in response to the previous article: Museum as Archaeologist

• To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display

• The City as It Was, A Web Site Away  

• Toledo Museum to Return Stolen Artwork
  

And Happy New Year!

More News . . .

Because apparently with all I have going on now, I've become nothing more than a new aggregator. ;)

• Brooklyn Museum to Extend Hours

• Egyptian Culture Minister Talks with Prosecutors in van Gogh Theft

• Debt Problem Has Museum Scrambling

• Museum Acquires Storied Trove of Performances by Jazz Greats

Museums in the News

I was away for a week of vacation, but home today and browsing the New York Times. Found some interesting news stories about museums:

• Rolling Museum Casts Lights on Present-Day Forced Labor

• The Ascent of Man: Museum of Natural History Offers a New iPhone App

• Leopold Museum to Pay $19 Million for Painting Seized by the Nazis

Museums in the News

I've just ended a week of summer camp at one of my museums. Managing 10 kids under 12 and 5 CIT's aged 13-17 for 7 hours a day is in fact as exhausting as it sounds! Hence, a lazy news post. Enjoy!

• New Museum Tells Krakow's Stories of World War II

• From Museum Basement, a "New" Dinosaur

• Metropolitan Museum Posts Best Attendance in Nearly a Decade

• Opulent and Elegant, Dresses as Art

• Organizers of Art Show Convicted in Moscow

Museums in the News

Recent museum news from the NY Times:

• Enclosing a Frick Portico Would Create a Gallery

• Whitneys That Never Were

• Craft Shop Family Buys Up Ancient Bibles for Museum

• Brooklyn Museum’s Populism Hasn’t Lured Crowds

• And one that's not exactly about museums, but certainly about threats to cultural resources: Trophy Hunters With Their Eye on Interiors

Museums in the News

Some interesting news stories about museums from the last week or so. From the NY Times, as usual.

• New York Museum Showcases Custom-Made Bicycles

• At a Roman Museum, Jazz Joins the Mix

• A Lower East Side History Show, in the First Person

• Melvin the Mummy's New Clothes

Museums in the News

Some interesting museum stories in the last month or so:

• At Ground Zero Museum, Voices of 9/11

• And related, $2.29 Million for Ground Zero Memorial and Museum

And in international museum news:

• ‘Smurf House’? ‘Chinese Hat’? Museum Intrigues

• What to Pair With Monet? Try Classical Music

• Tulipmania at Amsterdam Museum

Highlighting Museums

A good friend passed along this link last week, to the NY Times' special section on museums. Definitely worth a click through to browse the list of interesting articles about various aspects of the museum world. My favorites at present?

• The New Guard of Curators Steps Up: "Far from the stereotype of fusty academics, curators in their 30s and 40s are bringing eclectic backgrounds and a fresh eye to Manhattan’s museums."

• Out of Ruin, Haiti's Visionaries: "Many of Haiti’s museums were damaged in the country’s earthquake, but an exhibition scheduled there for 2012 hopes to revive the fortunes of the country’s creators."

• On Safari, Off the Beaten Path in Kansas: "A museum dedicated to Martin and Osa Johnson — explorers and household names in the 1920s and ’30s — is finding relevance today."

• Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums: "Restaurants and events are attracting increasing numbers of visitors to museums despite the economic downturn."

Museums in the News

Haven't done a museum news round-up in awhile. As per usual, all news from the NY Times. Enjoy!

• Et Tu, British Museum? Coin Commemorating Caesar’s Murder Goes on Display

• Switzerland’s Quirky Transportation Museum

• Museum Sets Grand Stage for Strings and Horns

• Louisiana Museum Confronts Segregation

• Take This Museum and Shape It

Museums in the News

A museum news roundup from the last month. All stories from the New York Times. Some pretty interesting stories in the last month!

• Death of a Visionary Director

• Seeing Green in the Natural History Museum's Food Court

• A Museum Hails Caesar

• A Museum that Roars Once a Month

• Living Along Museum Mile

• Museum Directors on Collections and Exhibitions

• The Manly Art of Museum Curating

• Museum is Displaying Treasures of the Other Evolution Pioneer

• Plan in Baghdad to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online

Museums in the News

Since we're now at the last day of the month, I thought I'd present you with a end-of-month news round-up. Articles are from the New York Times, as usual.

Expect more posts in the month of November than in the month of October, as I've settled into my new positions a bit and should have more time to dedicate to blogging.

And now, the news . . .

• Tiny Museum on a Big Mission

• Rock and Roll Photography at the Brooklyn Museum

• After Decades, Berlin's Neues Museum Reopens

• Whitney Advances Plans for a Second Museum

• Iran in Dispute with British Museum over Loan of Artifact
  

Museums in the News

Some of this week's museum-related stories:

• Reopened Museum Tells Chinese-American Stories

• Georgia O'Keeffe at the Whitney

• US Postal Museum Receives $8 Million for Larger Gallery

• Lasorda Portrait Installed at Smithsonian
  

Museums in the News

Sorry for the silence over the last few weeks. I snuck up to Prince Edward Island for vacation without telling you. I also had my first week at my new job this week. However, I'm back now and here is some of the last week's museum news!

• Contradiction Remains Vital to Pakistan and its Art

• Theft of Pencils from Hirst Exhibition Draws Arrest

• Movie Buffs Vs. L.A. County Museum of Art

• "The Mouse House:" Art Finds Space in Tight Quarters

• Mash-Up of Reality and Fantasy at the Met
  

This Week's Museum News

• No 'Lucy' Exhibition for Cost-Cutting Museum

• Smithsonian Will Open Early for Inauguration Visitors

• Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts

• This letter is follow up on the response to the National Academy's Museum's current financial troubles: What a Collection is Worth
  

Belated Museum News

As usual, from the New York Times.

• Museum Director is Briton of the Year (I particularly like the first line of this short article, which reads, "In the looking-glass world across the Atlantic, where cultural, not political, figures win person-of-the-year accolades . . . "

• Vanderbilt Museum is Fighting for its Life

• Seeing the Beauty in 5,000 Bugs on the Wall

• Branded a Pariah, the National Academy is Struggling to Survive, along with these two letters responding to the article.
  

This Week's Museum News

A selection of this week's museum news (primarily art museums), from the New York Times.

• LA Museum Proposes to Save Another

• The World of Art Museum Toilets, Revealed

• Brooklyn Museum's Costume Treasures Going to the Met

• Whitney Chooses Biennial Curators
  

This Week's Museum News

• Pact Will Send Artifacts to Italy from Cleveland

• The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn't Care to Listen To

• Bush Reopens Renovated American History Museum

• At Meeting, Smithsonian Practices New Openness

• Art Museum Unveils Expansion
  

This Week's Museum News

• Museum in St. Paul Feels Wall Street Woes

• New Museum Adds Michelle Obama Portrait

• In the Temple of the Wild Blue Yonder

• A Museum with No Exhibits, but Plenty of Ideas

• Unveiling a Museum, a Pennsylvania Town Remembers
  

This Week's Museum News

From both the New York Times & the Boston Globe:

• Away Down South, 2 Museums Grapple with Civil War Story

• Latest Design for 9/11 Museum Merges Old and New

• Davis Museum Director Resigns

• New Acquisitions Exhibit at the USS Constitution Museum
  

Museums in the News

I'm back from my vacation! Here's a sampling of the news I missed while I was gone:

• New Orleans' Proud, Complex History on Display

• Museum of History Unveils its Future

• In Virtual Museums, an Archive of the World

• Museum Review: Audubon Insectarium