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• Good excuse to get to Houston: QWERTY, a typewriter exhibt at the Museum of Printing History

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 571
  Well, yeah, its that kind of quirky museum you love — one topic, so you know the kind of history you’re going to get. And this particular subtopic?  Just right square in the middle of the road — that is, up my alley! QWERTY Exhibit at the Museum of Printing History, Houston QWERTY: A Typewriter ...
  6 hours ago

• The history of the world in 100 ojects

  
  The History Blog — Authority: 424
  Beginning in January 2010, BBC’s Radio Four in conjunction with the British Museum will air 100 15-minute episodes each detailing the history of one object from the British Museum collection. The aim is to cover a vast stretch of history from 1.4 million years ago to modern times, and all over the globe, not just ...
  7 hours ago

• A History of Museum Conflicts

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 445
  Instead of her regular Saturday column, Georgina Adam writes a tour d’horizon in the issue of self-interested museum shows, why they happen, how they happen and how hard it is to know whether they’re ever merited or not. The story is too comprehensive to synopsize and any single instance would not do justice to ...
  8 hours ago

• Rembrandt or not? Figure it out at the Getty

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 711
  Which one is the Rembrandt? That’s the question at “Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference.” Opening Dec. 8 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exhibition will pair the 17th century Dutch master’s works with drawings of the same or similar subjects by 15 other artists -- and point out ...
  13 hours ago

• a good friday in november

  
  no more commas period — Authority: 129
  Even though the deYoung was packed and that tiresome Boy King sold out, it was a pretty easy retail Black Friday for us. Its just so wonderful when the customers are so easy to please and no one is in the attack mode, as they used to be at the big box. God, did I hate retail Black Friday in the past. Even closing ...
  15 hours ago

• Fight Sarah Palin, The Tea Baggers and Michelle Bachman

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  Go to sarahpalin.org to help support the candidates who will be running against the Sara Palin/Tea Party/Michelle Bachman hand picked candidates.
  18 hours ago

• Linking to bid adieu to November

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 131
  I love my Roomba. Not only does it clean the floor, but it protects me from snakes. Scientists must now be on the lookout for fake conferences. Apparently the con artists out there have decided to aim themselves at the most skeptical group they could think of. Like museums? Like steampunk? Go ...
  19 hours ago

• Can you get kids interested in museums?

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 143
  What young people wouldn’t be fascinated by the not so dusty corners of modern museums? If you’re a ‘creative freelancer with experience of working with young people and with youth provision in local government to facilitate partnerships between museums and youth services and develop proposals for innovative ...
  21 hours ago

• Art Review | Connecticut: Divergent Styles and Inspirations of Coastal Art Colonies

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  ON THE WATER From the show at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme: “Wreck of the D. T. Sheridan,” circa 1949, by Rockwell Kent.
  1 day ago

• Ivory carvings made in Sri Lanka for the Portuguese, on display in Zurich

  
  Medieval Material Culture Blog — Authority: 133
  “Ivory from Ceylon: Renaissance Luxury Items” is at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland.
  1 day ago

• Steaks, Port, Sticky Toffee Pudding and the Government Lethal Chamber

  
  Robin D. Laws — Authority: 126
  LONDON – Todays museum of choice was the British, for its Moctezuma exhibit. The show goes long on the broad historical narrative and stunning objects, with lots of sculptures in which the human hearts of sacrificial victims were stored. If you were on the lookout for a sober study of the everyday lives of the ...
  1 day ago

• The Mayflower II: Stepping into America’s Pilgrim Past and the Ship That Started It All

  
  Perceptive Travel Blog — Authority: 489
  As always, this week in November, with its turkeys, cranberry sauce, and expressions of thanks has Americans thinking not just of food or Christmas shopping, but of the little town in Massachusetts we all learned about every year as schoolchildren: Plimouth (or Plymouth) Plantation, where the first Thanksgiving was ...
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• Pompidou Strike Could Shut Down Other Museums

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 793
  Frances major tourist attractions, including the Louvre, the Musée dOrsay, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and Versailles, could face closure next week because of a strike over planned job cuts.
  1 day ago

• Add Mexican Spice to Holiday Shopping at Chicago’s Mercado Navideno

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 430
  Mexican folk art Don’t think you’re stuck shopping for the same old gifts and stocking stuffers this holiday season.  A visit to  Chicago’s  National Museum of Mexican Art’s Mercado Navideno holiday market will reveal all the colorful options to spice up your shopping.  The Mercado Navideno runs ...
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• Monster Mash: Pompidou strike could spread to Louvre, Versailles; Warhol musical; Donuts closing

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 711
  -- Labor unrest : The strike at the Pompidou Center in Paris is poised to widen to other museums in France, including the Louvre and Versailles palace. ( Bloomberg ) -- Off-Broadway skirmish : A battle is brewing at New Yorks Soho Rep theater after the overlapping booking of two productions. ( Variety ) -- 15 ...
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• Entrepreneurial Brainstorming Session: Augmented Museum Experience iPhone App

  
  Tech IT Easy — Authority: 110
  Hi, Vincent here. I have neither the intent, nor the talent to develop this application, but it was a thought/pain I experienced at a museum today and an iTunes search didn’t reveal an app like it. A brief background. I’m pretty a-cultural, but I find audio-tours in museums generally a must, which means I usually ...
  1 day ago

• Power is the issue for Art + Auction

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 711
  What does the art world love to hate more than the Whitney Biennial? Annual lists of movers, shakers, spenders and makers published by art magazines. So look out for Art + Auction’s 2009 Power Issue, scheduled to hit newsstands Dec. 4.  It will bring 159 names to be debated. Many are familiar, if not ...
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• If Raffles Had A Spraycan

  
  Creative Spark — Authority: 117
  Who knew Street Art meets Singapore Nostalgia could be so retro-edgy? These are from a stencil and freehand live graffiti showcase by slacsatu and clogtwo from ZincNite Crew for the National Heritage Board’s I Heart Museums roadshow. I think ZNC are tha bomb, and their work around Youth Park bleeps like a ...
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• Washington Post: Leonardo da Vinci, National Philharmonic and more fine arts for kids

  
  A Parent in Silver Spring — Authority: 420
  I had the sheer pleasure of providing a good deal of the content for todays Washington Post Weekend sections focus on fine arts for kids in the DC area. From the cover story on the Maryland Science Centers Da Vinci: The Genius exhibit , to a piece on the free tickets for kids to the National Philharmonic in ...
  2 days ago

• Art, Wine, Company

  
  Robin D. Laws — Authority: 126
  LONDON – Started my sleep-truncated day with the Ed Ruscha restropective at the South Banks Hayward Gallery. Ruscha specializes in monumental juxtapositions of landscape and typography. Sometimes the words are austere objects of interest only for their value as objects in imaginary space. At other times their ...
  2 days ago

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