Museum News

• New Brooklyn Museum Exhibit Explores the Cultural Memory of Stonewall
  Artists born after the galvanizing moment in gay rights history, which took place 50 years ago, present their interpretations
  Smithsonian.  Wednesday, 22 May 2019.
• The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles Will Soon Offer Free Admission
  The move will be funded by a $10 million donation
  Smithsonian.  Tuesday, 21 May 2019.
• Egypt explosion: Tourists on bus injured near Giza pyramids
  At least 16 people are hurt near the Grand Egyptian Museum, South African tourists among them.
  BBC News.  Sunday, 19 May 2019.
• Neon Museum gets OK to expand to unused Vegas cultural site
  The Neon Museum is preparing to double in size by expanding across Las Vegas Boulevard into a shuttered cultural center dating to the early 1960s
  ABC News.  Sunday, 19 May 2019.
• Exhibit looks at history of Detroit's Corktown neighborhood
  A new exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum takes visitors through 150 years of life in the city's Corktown neighborhood
  ABC News.  Sunday, 19 May 2019.
• Rare and fabulous flying machines of fabric and wood at WAAAM - CNET
  The Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum has an incredible collection of airplanes from the first half of the 20th century, and amazingly, almost all still run. Here's a look inside.
  CNET.  Sunday, 19 May 2019.
• WAAAM! These antique aircraft and autos can actually drive and fly - CNET
  The incredible Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum museum is packed with amazing early-era vehicles, nearly all in flying or driving condition.
  CNET.  Sunday, 19 May 2019.
• Museum volunteers discover new species of extinct heron at North Florida fossil site
  When the bones of an ancient heron were unearthed at a North Florida fossil site, the find wasn't made by researchers but by two Florida Museum of Natural History volunteers. ...
  Science Daily.  Friday, 17 May 2019.
• I.M. Pei's legacy stretched from the West to the East
  BEIJING (AP) - The legacy of American architect I.M. Pei stretches from west to east, from the Louvre museum to his native China, where he helped fuse tradition and modernity as the country opened up after the Cultural Revolution. ...
  Washington Times.  Friday, 17 May 2019.
• I M Pei, Louvre pyramid architect, dies aged 102
  Tributes are paid to the man whose iconic buildings also include the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.
  BBC News.  Friday, 17 May 2019.
• I.M. Pei, Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World, Dies at 102
  Mr. Pei, a committed modernist, was one of the few architects equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards.
  New York Times.  Friday, 17 May 2019.
• Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
  Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms on display at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.
  Voice of America.  Thursday, 16 May 2019.
• Met Museum to stop taking donations from family connected to OxyContin-maker
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday said it would stop taking monetary gifts from members of the Sackler family who are connected to the pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin.
  CBC News.  Thursday, 16 May 2019.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art says it will no longer accept gifts from Sackler family
  The moves comes after other leading cultural institutions, including the Guggenheim in New York and the Tate in London, said they would cut ties with the family.
  CNBC.  Thursday, 16 May 2019.
• Islamic Sex Slavery Painting Stirs International Controversy
  An American museum is vociferously calling on a German political party to stop using one of the former's paintings in campaign posters.
  American Thinker.  Thursday, 16 May 2019.

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