News About Willoughby and the Community We Serve

Optical Illusions? Ghosts Spotted At Optical Museum In London
From 24hourmusuem.org.uk: Staff at one of London’s smaller museums, the British Optical Association Museum in Craven Street, are on the look out for psychic investigators after a series of ghostly encounters.

The apparitions appeared in a museum gallery and curator’s office during the week of Monday March 13 2006, whilst staff and decorators were involved in a revamp and reorganisation of the museum's displays. (more...)

CNN.com Travel Destinations Profiles the American Textile Museum
From CNN.com: The clanking sounds of a loom at the American Textile History Museum take visitors back to a time when clothes were hand-woven, and textiles drove the New England economy in this historic mill town and others. (more...)

Endangered Species exhibition at the Napa Valley Museum
From Napa Valley Register: On view until January 8, 2006, Witness: Endangered Species of North America at the Napa Valley Museum. This exhibit features photographs by Susan Middleton and David Liittschwager for their book, Witness: Endangered Species of North America. All plants and animals in the photographs are currently on North America's Endangered Species list. (more...)

"America Through the CBS Eye" on View at Museum of History & Industryin Seattle
From The Seattle Time: Seattle's Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) opens "America Through the CBS Eye" with black-and-white photos of celebrities. The more than 100 images that begin with Bing Crosby and end around "All in the Family" are memory markers that trigger intense personal recollection while charting a national fascination with the famous that has yet to crest. (more...)

Images of Farming and Ranching from the Collection of the Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan Kansas
From KSU.edu: The exhibition "All in a Day’s Work: Images of Farming and Ranching from the Collection of the Beach Museum of Art" is on view from August 30 to December 23, 2005 and features prints, watercolors, and drawings depicting farming and ranching. Artists included: Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood, as well as Kansas artists William Dickerson, John Helm, Herschel Logan, and E. Herbert Deines. (more...)

International Museum of Art & Science exhibit recalls shock, horror of 9/11
From the Monitor: Four years after the manmade tragedy of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and as the nation now struggles with the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina — Mark Roddenberry wants his images to serve as a bridge of remembrance. Texas State Bank is bringing the New York photographer’s work to the Rio Grande Valley in an exhibit at the International Museum of Art & Science.(more...)

New Orleans Museum of Art Survives
From NOLA.com: The New Orleans Museum of Art survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath without significant damage. But when Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives arrived in the area Wednesday, NOMA employees holed up inside the museum were left in a quandary: FEMA wanted those evacuees to move to a safer location, but there was no way to secure the artwork inside. (more...)

Textile Museum of Canada Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
Textile Museum of Canada celebrates its 30th anniversary. Exhibitions, programs, lectures and musical events encourage participants to experience textiles dating from the fourth century to the 20th, from Brazil to Sumatra. From the four corners of the world, people have come to Canada with a dazzling range of cultural identities and ideas woven into their garments and ritual textiles. From threads of gold to pounded tree bark - these exhibitions weaves together 30 stories about textiles and their donors. (more...)

Museum of London and Horniman Museum in News
From News24.com: The British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Museum of London, and the Horniman Museum are offering training places to help young South African curators hone their skills. (more...)

Willoughby co-develops Museum/Library System Search Bridge
Willoughby Associates, in cooperation with Endeavor Information Systems and Mystic Seaport, created a revolutionary on-line tool allowing Mystic Seaport's Internet visitors to simultaneously query for museum data managed in Willoughby's MIMSY XG and library/archive data held in Endeavor's Voyager. Willoughby produced the bridge that connects its museum content management software to Endeavor's ENCompass, the web portal from where Mystic's on-line queries are run. Other museums that use different database tools to manage library and archive collections can benefit from the bridge Willoughby built. (more...)

Lee Miller at the National Portrait Gallery
From 24HourMuseum: National Portrait Gallery exhibition features 120 black-and-white images by the model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. The exhibition charts Miller’s progression from neophyte surrealist to Vogue war correspondent and finally her later years. (more...)

Science Museum Reinvents Itself
From The Independent Online Edition: Britain's Science Museum is launching its £50m revamp by dusting off the machines that drove the Industrial Revolution and highlighting their impact on everyday life. (more...)

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Sculpture takes Prize
From The Guardian UK: A wriggly earth bank set around three sinuous ponds, which transformed a flat patch of scrubby grass in front of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, last night won the £100,000 Gulbenkian museums prize, the richest single prize in the arts. (more...)

Science Museum Investigates Enhancements
From The Guardian UK: From the rib-squeezing corset of the Victorian age to the traffic-stopping Wonderbra advertisements of the 1990s, the precursors to the modern bra were unveiled yesterday at the Science Museum in London. (more...)

Des Plaines History Center Named Mid-Sized Institution of the Year
The Des Plaines Historical Society's History Center has been named Mid Sized Institution of the Year by the Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) for the role the organization has played in "integrating community and private resources to better serve constituents and evolving into a professional organization that would be the pride of many towns much larger than Des Plaines." (more...)

New Waterfront Museum proposed in Liverpool
From 24HourMuseum: A new waterfront museum in Liverpool recieved a major grant by the Northwest Regional Development Agency and is planned to add a new dimension to the famous waterfront. (more...)

Architect selected for LACMA Expansion
From The Art Newspaper: Renzo Piano has been chosen by Eli Broad as the designer for the new building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). (more...)

British Fashion Designers at the Museum of London
From 24HourMuseum: The London Look: From Street To Catwalk at The Museum of London looks at the history of the thousands of garments produced in London workrooms and factories, and the garment industry’s training grounds – the schools, colleges and apprentice workshops. (more...)

Clinton Library set to Open
From MSNBC.msn.com: Clinton Library built as a metaphorical "bridge to the 21st century," and breaks the historical museum mold because of its 58-year-old political superstar subject who still sets the Democratic agenda. (more...)

Sports Memorabilia at the Smithsonian
From Hover's Online: Abraham Lincoln's handball is part of the exhibit "Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers," on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. (more...)

Travel to Mystic Seaport
From DesertNews.com: The maritime legacy is captured at Mystic Seaport, known as "the museum of America and the sea." The 17-acre open-air, open-sea museum on the Mystic River in Mystic, Conn., includes a 19th century coastal village with historic ships, extensive exhibit galleries, a preservation shipyard where visitors can often see shipbuilding in action and a huge collections research center. (more...)

Sobey Award Nominees on view at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
From SobeyArtAward.ca: The exhibition of works by the five artists shortlisted for the 2004 Sobey Art Award is now on view at the Art Galley of Nova Scotia. Winner of the 50,000 prize to be announced on october 14, 2004 (more...)

Washington Post review of Hillwood Museum
From Washingtonpost.com: The WP Entertainment Guide boasts, "Hillwood offers something unique in Washington" and cautions "even the dedicated will need to go home and curl up with the catalogue, and go back again to absorb the details that give the decorative arts value." (more...)

Travel to the Palm Springs Desert Museum
From MSN.com: MSNBC's Travel with Budget Travel focuses on Palm Springs and praises it for "the country's best resort bargains and prices generally well below destinations such as Provincetown, Key West, and Miami Beach." (more...)

Walker's Biennial Bash
From 24 Hour Museum: Punk art, the Stuckists, on view for the first time at a national institutionat at the Walker Art Gallery’s Biennial festival. (more...)

Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal celebrates Biennal
From AbsoluteArts.com: The 2004 Montreal Biennale gathers on a scale unprecedented for the Biennale some of the world's foremost visual artists, architects, urban designers, and landscape designers. (more...)

Trencherfield Mill Engine at Wigan Pier
From 24 Hour Museum: The world's biggest steam engine, Trencherfield Mill Engine, is on view at Wigan Pier. (more...)

Zineb Sedira at City Gallery Leicester
From 24 Hour Museum: Telling Stories with Differences, on view at The City Gallery in Leicester, showcases the work of internationally acclaimed artist, Zineb Sedira. (more...)

British Optical Association Museum Open House
A chance to see what the College of Optometrists looks like inside. Thee doors will be open to the public on Sunday, September 19th when the College takes part in the annual Open House London weekend event. (more...)

German Expressionists at the Portland Museum of Art
From AbsoluteArts.com: The Portland Museum of Art presents an exhibition of 85 masterworks of German Expressionist graphics from an important print collection amassed by David and Eva Bradford. On view for the first time, German Expressionist Graphics: The Bradford Collection offers a rare opportunity to examine the powerfully inventive character of the German Expressionist movement in provocative portraits, idyllic landscapes, and socially critical satires of German culture produced during the early 20th century. (more...)

Pierre Huyghe at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
From Artfacts.net: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is organizing an installation of works by Parisian artist Pierre Huyghe, whose work has won international acclaim and has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2002 Huyghe won the prestigious Hugo Boss Prize, administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, and in 2001 he was chosen to represent France at the 49th Venice Biennale. The artist works in a variety of media, from sculpture to video to ephemeral installations, which often include simulated rain, snow, and fog. (more...)

Jasper Johns at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
From 24HourMuseum: An extensive show of paintings, prints and drawings is on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. It is the first major Jasper Johns show in Britain since 1977. (more...)

Textile Museum of Canada Wrapped in Silk
From Cloudband.com: An engaging selection of 17th to early 20th century silk costumes and textiles from two Canadian museum collections are brought together at The Museum for Textiles in Toronto. The resulting show speaks of the opulence and pageantry of China's last Imperial age. (more...)

Portland Art Museum Gains Elbow Room
From the Portland Tribune: Portland Art Museum is renovating an adjacent Masonic Temple. When finished it will hold 28,000 square feet of modern works. Museum officials hope it will be completed by September 2005. (more...)

Corning's New Glass Review
From AbsoluteArts.com: Two immediate opportunities for artists working in glass are available through The Corning Museum of Glass. The Museum’s New Glass Review, the only annual journal dedicated to documenting international art, craft, and design in glass, is accepting entries for its 26th edition. (More)

Women Travel Off the Beaten Track at the NPG, London
From 24HourMuseum.org.uk: A witty and inspirational celebration of women travelers, 'Off the Beaten Track, on view at The National Portrait Gallery, spans three hundred years and chronicles journeys as far afield as Russia, the Far East, and the Americas. (More)

Milton Avery at The Phillips
From NPR.org: NPR's Morning Edition covers the Milton Avery Exhibition at the Phillips. Susan Stamberg reports on a new exhibit at the Phillips that celebrates the long friendship between Avery and violinist Louis Kaufman. (more...)

Joslyn Art Museum Hosts Annual Jazz on the Green
From Local Legacies: Free concert series, Jazz on the Green, held on the Joslyn Green (the Museum's east lawn) for six consecutive Thursdays each July and August. Presenting this uniquely American art form in all its diverse styles. The Museum remains open through intermission so that concert-goers may view the collections and special exhibits. (more...)

Oracle Safe Switch
Institutions considering MIMSY XG: Oracle Safe Switch allows you to migrate your non-Oracle database application licenses (IBM DB2 UDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, and Sybase) and receive a trade-in credit of up to 100%. For more information, please contact us at info@willo.com. (more...)

Discounted Microsoft Access and other Software for Non-Profits
For information on how to receive significant discounts on Microsoft Access and other software, please visit TechSoup.org. TechSoup Stock connects U.S. designated 501c3 nonprofits with donated and discounted technology products. Willoughby does not endorse and/or guarantee products obtained from this program; however, some of our clients have benefited from the program, and we encourage you to explore the low-cost options that it presents. In order to ensure compatibility, please call Willoughby's Technical Support (847.733.3832) if you plan to use software or hardware purchased on this site in conjunction with Willoughby's Collections Management software. (more...)

Rochester Museum & Science Center Opens Douglas Exhibition
From R News: Rochester Museum and Science Center opens "Rochester's Frederick Douglass". The 5,000-square foot exhibition is a labyrinth that winds through Douglass' life, beginning with his childhood as a slave in Maryland. (more...)

Lowe Art Gallery Reopens with Lombardi Exhibition
From Syracuse University: The Lowe Art Gallery will re-open with a new exhibition: "Mark Lombardi: Global Networks". Lombardi drawings map the eonomic underpinnings of our global society. (more...)

Database is Half the Cost of SQL Server for Packaged Applications
Oracle Secured environment at $13 per Oracle user vs. $53 per Microsoft user. Read the entire report Comparative Study of Relational Databases Underlying Packaged Applications -- Oracle Database vs. Microsoft SQL Server from IT market research firm INPUT. Their report shows the total per user cost of running applications such as MIMSY in an Oracle environment is half that of a Microsoft environment. INPUT interviewed CIOs, IT managers, development managers, and DBAs at 30 organizations using 44 different application solutions to obtain their results. (more...)

Basketball Player's Exhibition Comes to NOMA
From GrantHill.com: Basketball superstar Grant Hill has established a $10,000 scholarship program in conjunction with his sponsorship of a two-year, seven city exhibit art tour named "Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art." (more...)

George Catlin at the Museum of the American West
From ArtDaily.com: An installation of George Catlin’s original Indian Gallery, "George Catlin and His Indian Gallery," will be on view at the George Montgomery Gallery, Los Angeles. Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (more...)

Tale Of Liverpool Trip Wins 24 HM/MGM Travel Writing Prize
From 24HourMuseum: Quin Parker's story "I’d Never Visited Liverpool Before" wins the Museums and Galleries Month/24 Hour Museum travel writing prize. (more...)

"Conflict: The Irish at War" at the Ulster Museum
From GotoBelfast.com: The Ulster Museum's exhibition on the subject of the Irish at war deals with the many conflicts in which the people of this island have been involved since earliest times - between each other, against invaders and as mercenaries in foreign wars. (more...)

Lucian Freud at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
From 24 Hour Museum: Lucian Freud’s Etchings 1946 – 2004 includes the majority of Lucian Freud’s printed output from the past 60 years and is reviewed publicly for the first time at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. (more...)

Nordic Design at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
From Royal Danish Embassy in DC: "Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers" explores the contributions of women designers from Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Organized thematically, this exhibition shows how these countries share cultural ties yet retain distinctive design traditions. (more...)

Acacostia Museum Explores Emerging Trends in African-American Art
From WETA Community Calendar: "New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art" features the works of rising artists who bring fresh, bold, and personal issues to the contemporary art scene. New Visions spotlights the recent works of Iona Rozeal Brown, Jonathan Calm, Winston W. Harris, Daniel H. Hoover, Roy LaGrone, Jerome B. Meadows, Rhonda Alisa Silver, and Vera Hope Walston. (more...)

Norton Simon Museum features work of Ynez Johnston
From Southern California Neighborhood Guide: An exhibition of rarely seen works on paper and sculpture by acclaimed Los Angeles artist Ynez Johnston will be presented at the Norton Simon Museum from April 2 through August 23, 2004. "The Magical Worlds of Ynez Johnston" features more than 30 watercolor paintings, etchings and lithographs from 1950 through 1970 in the Museum’s permanent collections, as well as four recent bronze sculptures from the 1980s and 1990s. (more...)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery Showcases Figurative Works
From Absolute Arts: Exhibition combines the works of Feng Feng and Li Jin, two artists who share a studio, but whose works otherwise appear to differ widely, using completely different techniques and content. (more...)

Elephant as Artist at the Booth Museum
From 24 Hour Museum: The Booth Museum invites us to reconsider ideas of intent and art with an exhibition by a very unusual group of artists. "Chang, Clang, Swish, Bang!" is an exhibition of elephant art and music, the result of a project in a Thailand Elephant Conservation Centre overseen by Brighton-based artist Millie Young. (more...)

Tintin's Latest Adventure at the National Maritime Museum
From 24 Hour Museum: Marking his 75th birthday, the exhibition The Adventures of Tintin at Sea is a collection of original drawings by Belgian Cartoonist Georges Remi and some of the artefacts and models that inspired him. (more...)

Oral History Installation at the Museum of London
From 24 Hour Museum: "Women Talk", a oral history installation at the Museum of London, is made up of some 67 stories by over 45 people. The stories paint a vivid picture of life in London and the issues facing women during the 20th and early 21st centuries. (more...)

National Railway Museum Bid Saves Flying Scotsman for the Nation
From 24 Hour Museum: Following months of speculation that the world’s most famous steam locomotive might be sold abroad, the National Railway Museum in York has bought the Flying Scotsman. The institution raised £425,000, which, backed by £365,000 from Sir Richard Branson and a £1.8 million grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, was enough to secure the rail icon. (more...)

Handcrafted contemporary sculptures and woodcuts at Brighton Museum
From 24 Hour Museum: Brighton Museum exhibition contrasts Jon Mills’ steel structures with Andrew Mockett’s woodcuts. (more...)

The National Portrait Gallery Celebrates Ordinary People
From 24 Hour Museum: We Are The People: Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips is on at the National Portrait Gallery, London, until June 20, 2004. Linked to the exhibition is a display of postcards at the Horniman Museum. (more...)

Science Museum Plans Controversial Exhibit
From News.com.au: Britain's Science Museum is considering a particularly gruesome new exhibit with a decomposing human body displayed in a glass box. (more...)

Governor General's Awards at National Gallery of Canada
From absolutearts.com: Works by the winners of the 2004 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts will be on view in the National Gallery of Canada's Contemporary Galleries from 12 March to 1 May 2004. (more...)

Every Walk of Life - Living with Multiple Sclerosis at the People's Palace
From 24 Hour Museum: There are more people per capita in Scotland with Multiple Sclerosis than anywhere else in the world. Every Walk of Life, at the People’s Palace in Glasgow until April 4, documents the lives of a selection of people living with MS in Scotland. (more...)

Clinton Library Set to Open
From CNN.com: After working to bolster tourism at its Little Rock location, the Clinton Presidential Library will seek to do the same for Arkansas' three other "presidential cities" before the library's November opening. (more...)

Taft Museum of Art Completes First Major Renovation
The historic Baum-Longworth-Taft House, made famous by its world-class art collections as well as its former owners Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton and Charles and Anna Taft, is making history once again. (more...)

Bontecou exhibit at Chicago's MCA
From CNN: Lee Bontecou's exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art begins with the three-dimensional works that made Bontecou famous in the 1960s and ends with the now 72-year-old artist's most recent works. (more...)

Cecil Beaton at the National Portrait Gallery
From 24 Hour Museum: The National Portrait Gallery exhibition shows Beaton’s work, both well-known and unknown, from five decades of the twentieth century. Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of Beaton’s output is his ability to adapt himself to the mood of the time. (more...)

21st Century Clans at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
From 24 Hour Museum: The exhibition, Clan: 21st Century Clans in Focus at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, aims to redress the view that the clan has many romantic and historical connotations, but has little relevance in today’s society. (more...)

Joe Mora exhibit at National Steinbeck Center
From The Mercury News: The marble reliefs at the Monterey County Courthouse in Salinas, the Cervantes sculpture at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the Bret Harte Memorial on the wall of San Francisco's Bohemian Club and the fountain at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga were all created by Joe Mora. However most viewer never stop to think about the artist who created them. (more...)

Wartzman Lecture/Book Signing at Autry National Center
From the Museum of the American West: The Autry Museum's Caughey Lecture will be delivered by Rick Wartzman, coauthor of the acclaimed new book The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. A reception and book signing will follow. (more...)

New Wing at Museum of Jewish Heritage
From Architectural Record: An 83,000 square foot addition has been completed in Lower Manhattan. The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, located in Battery Park City, has increased its size four times over. (More)

Upcoming Events at National Museums Liverpool
From BBC Online: A calendar guide to the Liverpool Museums: Grossology @ Liverpool Museum; Archaeology of Middle Earth @ County Sessions House; TITANIC @ Merseyside Maritime Museum. (more...)

Call for Artists at National Museums Liverpool
From AbsoluteArts.com: Britain’s biggest painting competition – the John Moores 23 exhibition of contemporary painting has issued its call for entries for what promises to be the most exciting show ever. (More)

Lancaster Bomber Returns to Australian War Memorial
From Australian War Memorial: The famous Lancaster bomber G for George has returned to the Memorial as the centerpiece of a new show, Striking by Night. (more...)

Clinton Presidential Library receives E-mails
From CNN.com: The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself. (More)

Museum of London's new exhibition, 1920s: The Decade That Changed London
From WelthamForestGuardian.co.uk: Museum of London's new exhibition, 1920s: The Decade That Changed London, covers the post-World War I decade in eight sections and boasts a wide range of more than 400 exhibits. (More)

Telfair Museum of Art Plans Jepson Center for the Arts
From Telfair.org: "The Jepson Center for the Arts will be Savannah's latest landmark building and a destination of distinction for area residents and visitors alike," says Diane Lesko, the Telfair's executive director. "It will be a state-of-the-art museum facility and will join the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Owens-Thomas House as an architectural masterpiece in which we can all take pride. (More)

Fort Wayne Museum of Art Presents Major African-American Art Collection
From FWMOA.org: The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is proud to present The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, one of the finest private collections of its kind in the country. The exhibition features more than 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs spanning from 1848 to 1997. (More)

James A Michener Museum Acquires First Union Bank Paintings
The James A. Michener Museum acquires three new Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings: Early Spring and Lumberville in Winter by Edward Redfield, and an untitled moonlit snow scene by George Sotter. (More)

Napa Valley Museum Highlights The Inspirational Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
From ArtsCouncilNapaValley.org: The Napa Valley Museum is proud to present two exciting exhibitions that highlight the inspirational work of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Arts and Crafts Movement: Aesthetics, Style and Continuity and A Way of Life: An Apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright. Both exhibitions will run from October 25, 2003 through January 11, 2004. (More)

New Exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
From GalleryCenter.org: AMERINGER & YOHE FINE ART will feature an exhibition entitled: Good Things/Small Objects. Elaine Baker Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of Dolly Moreno’s interactive sculpture. Caesarea Gallery is proud to present its upcoming exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed gallery artist Michel Pellus. (more...)

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Examines Connection Between Hip Hop Culture and Japanese Trends
From Spelman.edu: The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will present iona rozeal brown: black on both sides. iona brown's paintings are an unprecedented mixture of anonymous courtesans, geisha and other Japanese subjects in blackface. As one of the nation's most exciting emerging artists, brown explores the theme of afro-asiatic allegory. (more...)

Mandarin Language Tours given at Pacific Asia Museum
From San Dimas Community News: Special Chinese language guided tours at the Pacific Asia Museum will be of the Chinese Ceramics and Chinese Jade in the Museum’s collection. Guests will tour four galleries of Tang Dynasty tomb ceramics, colorful export porcelains, prized porcelains from the Imperial Court of the Qing Dynasty, and exquisitely carved jades. (more...)

Center for the Study of Political Graphics delivers "Graphics for the Gipper"
From Common Dreams.org: In response to the decision by CBS not to show "The Reagans" on network television, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) presents "Graphics for the Gipper," a virtual exhibition of 48 posters on its website politicalgraphics.org. (more...)

Ed Ruscha at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
From AbsoulteArts.com: This exhibition will survey Ruscha's paintings, drawings, and books from 1960 to the present. Ruscha is one of the most consistently inventive artists of the contemporary period. He has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media. (more...)

New Collections Management System Interface Shatters Conventional Museum Software Design and Introduces Many Industry Firsts
Willoughby Associates, Limited, announces a new collections management system, iO, introducing several significant new user interface concepts to the museum automation field. iO replaces the traditional "flipping through index cards" interface, which has defined the look and feel of collections software for the past two decades, with a web-like interface, resulting in a greatly reduced learning curve that makes the software easier to operate than other packages and opens up its use to a wide range of museum staff outside of collection specialists (more...)

A Palm-enabled Mobile Museum™
Willoughby Associates, Limited, announces Mobile Museum Audit and Mobile Museum Curator — the first two available applications in the Mobile Museum™ suite, a set of Palm-enabled collections management and information delivery applications for the museum community. Using the Palm platform, the Mobile Museum suite™ will deliver information to museum visitors, as well as facilitate jobs done by registrars, curators, conservators and others. (more...)

Better Integration for Museum Community
Willoughby Associates, Limited, announces that Instant Internet Interface (III), Möbius and all other New and Integrative Media products formerly produced by Intermuse have re-joined Willoughby's family of museum community products and services. (more...)

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