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• Smithsonian’s Johnson Imax Theater Offers Free Admission to “Wild Ocean 3D” for Recycled Cell Phones

  
  Big Movie Zone Blog — Authority: 139
  The Johnson Imax Theater at the National Museum of Natural History has joined Nokia in an environmental initiative that provides free movie admission to visitors in exchange for their old mobile phones. From Nov. 15 through Nov. 22, guests who present a cell phone for recycling at the theater’s box offices will ...
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• Bristol Zoo

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 125
  The zoo in Bristol has gone through a number of names in its distinguished history (first opening in 1836) and is currently the ‘Bristol Zoo Gardens’ though for a long time it was the last surviving ‘zoological and botanical gardens’ in the UK, and quite possibly the world. In fact thanks to its age it has a ...
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• 45-Year History of Craft + Design Show

  
  The Fan District Hub — Authority: 127
  Opening with a public reception 6 p.m. -8 p.m. on Nov. 13, at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond (at 1812 W. Main St.), 20/20 A Look Back at the Craft + Design Show is a curated exhibition of works selected from 20 of the most prominent Richmond collections of pieces purchased at the Craft [...]
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• free admission from bank of america

  
  good tree montessori homeschool — Authority: 119
  http://museums.bankofamerica.com/ get FREE general admission to participating museums, zoos, science centers, botanical gardens, and more on the first full weekend of every month by just presenting any bank of america card. get back some of that bailout money!
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• Lost Museums: Brooks Stevens Automotive Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  
  Best Car Ever — Authority: 157
  Auto museums never really seem to come and go – instead, they appear to be timeless, non-contemporary and not affected by change, perhaps due to their focus on history and apparent situation in the past rather than the present. But, of course, that’s not the case: Museums come and go just like any other ...
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• Sculpture expert named as Tate Britain director

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Penelope Curtis is to become director of Tate Britain, succeeding Stephen Deuchar, who has been appointed head of the arts charity the Art Fund. Currently curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and an expert in British sculpture, Curtis will ascend to the super-league of British museum directors through her ...
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• Embracing Challenges in International Exhibition Loans

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 151
  To purchase the full copy of this material, go to www.prolibraries.com View any number of our other 27000 sessions from over 280 conferences by going to www.prolibraries.com Speaker(s) Clare McGowan Embracing Challenges in International Exhibition Loans – American Association of Museums AAM 2008 708/710/712 ...
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• Monster Mash: Michael Jackson portrait beats estimates; Rent controversy in Vegas; Met Operas windfall

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 742
  -- Sold / not sold : A 1984 portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol beat estimates by selling for $812,500 and a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat went unsold at a Christies auction in New York. ( Bloomberg ) -- Shows must go on : A judge has allowed a Las Vegas-area high school to continue with its productions of ...
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• Openings: Jeremy Fish @ Laguna Art Museum

  
  Arrested Motion — Authority: 493
  AM visited Jeremy Fish this past weekend in Laguna for the opening of “Weathering the Storm”, his first solo museum show. As you may well remember from our studio visit , Fish has created an entirely new body of work for this exhibit, featuring a variety of sizes and mediums. Fans turned out in droves, ...
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• Women in Charge at Tate Britain and Venice Architecture Biennale

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 796
  Penelope Curtis has been appointed the director of the Tate Britain museum in London, and Kazuyo Sejima has been named the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale for 2010.
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• Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg – Hotel and Events

  
  USA Travel Guide — Authority: 126
  Unless you operate a discount store, you’re probably thinking “Christmas? It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!” Truth is, if you want mix it up this year with an unusual Christmas vacation, it’s time to start thinking about tickets and hotel rooms. These things can sell out. History buffs and anyone who ...
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• The Veteran in a New Field

  
  a fool in the forest — Authority: 113
  Winslow Homer (1865) .   May all Soldiers someday be Veterans. ~~~
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• Libyan Bits and Pieces

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 416
  Mausoleum F from Ghirza; museum of Bani Walid Over the years, my friend Marco and I made some 40,000 photos, which we have arranged geographically: there’s a directory for country X, which is subdivided into directories for towns A, B, and C. The names of the photos are usually sufficient to find back what we were ...
  15 hours ago

• Singapore Museum Guide

  
  Art Radar Asia — Authority: 118
  QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SINGAPORE’S CULTURAL TREASURES Singapore is home to a diverse offering of heritage attractions ranging from arts, history, culture, lifestyle, science, to healthcare. According to the Renaissance City Plan III developed by the National Heritage Board , as of 2007 there are 52 museums ...
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• SoCal Roadsters Toy Drive @ Datsun Heritage Museum

  
  Japanese Nostalgic Car - Blog — Authority: 128
  The SoCal Roasters Owners Club held their annual charity toy drive at the Datsun Heritage Museum last weekend. We’re always looking for an excuse to head down to the DHM, so Dan and I hopped into the Toyota and away we went (we really need a Datsun one of these days). Ron Carter’s race-prepped [...]
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• Galleries & Museums

  
  Melbourne Art & Culture Critic — Authority: 415
  Modern and contemporary art is often aesthetically dependent on gallery spaces; the gallery or museum architecturally and aesthetically frames the work art. Despite the emergence of site-specific works, many works of contemporary art depend on the art gallery setting to give them meaning even existence. Modern art was ...
  23 hours ago

• Trustee’s Art on His Museum’s Walls Raises Flag

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  From left, Lietta Joannou, Jeff Koons, Dakis Joannou and Justine Koons in a 2003 photograph. Mr. Joannou has been collecting Mr. Koonss art since before Mr. Koons was an art star.
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• 11.11-ICM-New Images

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 566
  The International Cryptozoology Museum will have extended hours today, Veterans Day, November 11, 2009, from 10 am to 6 pm. Here are some new images.
  23 hours ago

• 12/3/09: “Handmade Ho Down” Urban Craft Fair | SOMA

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 490
  Welcome to the first San Francisco Craftstravaganza, Handmade Ho Down, an Etsy-sponsored, urban craft show with 55+ crafters selling unique and handmade items. There will be a special event ‘zine, free swag bags full of goodies to the first 200 in the door, a gift wrapping station, live DJs, live art demos, live ...
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• Exhibition of Michelangelo’s drawings & designs for Roman architecture on display in Rome

  
  Medieval Material Culture Blog — Authority: 132
  Michelangelo architetto a Roma is at the Capitoline Museums through February 7.
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