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Smithsonian Holding Vote on Video Games for Exhibit

WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian American Art Museum is asking the public to help select video games that will be included in its first exhibit to explore the art and visual effects of gaming. The exhibit, "The Art of Video Games," is scheduled to open in March 2012 with a focus on the evolution of games as an artistic...

Super Bowl Wager Has Museums Betting Artworks

While the mayors of Green Bay and Pittsburgh have wagered local food products in advance of Super Bowl XLV, two art museums have also placed their bets. Milwaukee Art Museum / AP If the Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl on Sunday, the Milwaukee Art Museum will lend this painting, "Boating on the Yerres" by...

Google Art Project: Here Are Some of the Famous Works Available Online

Google has introduced its latest foray into the art world, and these are no doodles. Google Art Project takes visitors on a virtual, "street-view"-style field trip through some of the world's most renowned art museums "to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail." Seventeen of the...

Opinion: Art Museums at the Crossroads

American art museums are in a deep financial crisis that threatens their very mission -- the access of the public to great works of art. Today, museums have programs for K-12 schoolchildren, people with Alzheimer's and their caregivers, prison inmates, people with mental and physical challenges, and the general public --...

Museums Cover Up Mummies to Placate Pagans

(Nov. 2) -- Even if you've been dead nearly 2,000 years, if you show too much skin, somebody is going to get offended. Several museums in the U.K. are giving their mummies a bit more privacy to keep from offending faith-based groups. The Daily Mail reports that, after giving in to increasing pressure from pagan...

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Nick Kolakowski: Follow Museums Like Others Follow Sports Teams

"Did you see how badly A.J. Burnett sucked last night? He held it together for, what, all of three innings before he fell apart? He really needs to break this slump, it's killing the Yankees."

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Will Smith Struggles To Explain 'Men In Black 3' Plot To High School Kids

The Hayden Planetarium at Manhattan's Natural History Museum has been home to many famous voices over the last decade.

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A Gallery Girl's Art Fair Diary

Gallery girl Heidi of 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Hong Kong lets us follow her footsteps during the week of ART HK 12.

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Spot On National Mall Will Be Named For Koch Brother

An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall, the museum complex announced Thursday.

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PHOTOS: Mobile Art Gallery Aims For Nationwide Tour

Despite the city's well-publicized attempts to thwart the growth of its small food truck community, many of the businesses have continued to soldier on.

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06/02/12 Historic Savannah Foundation to host Hands on History... Source: CBS - WTOC 11 The Historic Savannah Foundation is set to host a Hands on History day camp from June 11 to June 15.
06/02/12 535 more calendar events today >> Source: LA Weekly - Los Angeles CA When was the last time you went to a comedy night in Beverly Hills?
06/02/12 Made in L.A. 2012: Slanguage Source: LA Weekly - Los Angeles CA This weekend marks the start of the Hammer Museum's biennial crosstown explosion of boundary-blurring contemporary art, "Made in L.A."
06/02/12 Hayden Building, historic gem of the Combat Zone, to... Source: Boston.com The Hayden Building, the last commercial building in Boston designed by the famed Henry Hobson Richardson, architect of Trinity Church, is being renovated after decades of decline and neglect.
06/02/12 Its Going to Be Huge Source: New York Magazine O f all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious.

Background on museums

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.

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