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Queen's University is given a Rembrandt
From CBC News: Queen's University's Agnes Etherington Art Centre has received an original painting by Rembrandt from long-time benefactor and alumnus Alfred Bader. (more...)

Laura Owens at Milwaukee Art Museum
From JS Online: Paintings by Laura Owens on view in the contemporary-art galleries of the Milwaukee Art Museum. (more...)

Surrealism and Modernism on View at the Phillips Collection
From CNN.com: A show of painters who were pushing the artistic envelope in the troubled Europe of the mid-1900s is on view at the Phillips Collection. "Surrealism and Modernism" -- 59 works by Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and others -- was put together by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut (more...)

Dana Foundation Encourages Debate Among Scientists and the Public
Fron Telegraph.co.uk: The Dana Centre is a world first, a unique venue where the public and researchers will come together to discuss the hottest issues of contemporary science. The centre will enable the Science Museum in London to be the first major museum to both engage its audiences with the history of science and bring the most controversial themes in modern research to life. (more...)

First-Time Display of Milwaukee Art Museum's Entire O'Keeffe Collection
From Art Museum Network News: A selection of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Georgia O’Keeffe paintings will be permanently installed. The Milwaukee Art Museum is a leading repository for O’Keeffe’s work and the fourth largest of its kind. The installation coincides with the return of many of the works from the critically acclaimed exhibition O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes: The Artist’s Collection. (more...)

Kelvingrove Closed for Major Renovations
From BBC News: The Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow will remain closed while contractors complete rewiring work and renovations. Some of the museum's exhibits will be moved to the city's McLellan Galleries during the period of closure. (more...)

2,000-year-old Roman Pot Opened at Museum of London
From BBC News: A Roman pot unearthed at an archaeological dig in London has been opened to reveal cream which is nearly 2,000 years old. The sealed pot full of ointment, complete with finger marks, was discovered at a Roman temple complex in Southwark, south London. (more...)

LACMA Given Dutch Paintings
From The Mercury News: LA County Museum trustee has donated 11 centuries-old Dutch landscape and still life paintings. The Museum hailed the gift as the most valuable it ever received. (more...)

DeCordova Awards Rappaport Prize to John Bisbee
From Art Museum Network: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park announce that John Bisbee, a 38-year-old Maine-based sculptor who welds nails and spikes to create intricate works that suggest organic and geometric forms, is the recipient of the largest pubic annual award to an individual artist in New England. (more...)

Coming Soon to NOMA: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
From Art Museum Network: The new Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art will be one of the premier sculpture gardens in American. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden will serve the metropolitan and regional communities, and will offer the many visitors to the city an opportunity to enjoy a world-class collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. (more...)

National Aviation Hall of Fame Celebrates 100 Years of Flight
From WHIO-TV: The hometown of Wilbur and Orville Wright is celebrating the 100th anniversary of powered flight. Twenty-two of the 178 people who have been enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame were honored by the hall in a "homecoming" at the Dayton Convention Center. Actor-pilot Harrison Ford served as master of ceremonies. (more...)

National Steinbeck Center Opens a New Wing
From California Countryside: The National Steinbeck Center is a few blocks away from the eponymous author's birthplace and childhood home. The Center, opened in 1999, presents the life of John Steinbeck, his writings, his characters and Steinbeck Country itself in an informative and entertaining manner through interactive exhibits, priceless artifacts, educational programs, plays and films. (more...)

"CHiPs" Bike in the Smithsonian
From The Sacramento Bee: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will open its exhibition, "America on the Move," on Nov. 22. The exhibit is part of the General Motors Hall of Transportation and will feature more than 300 transportation artifacts -- including the KZ900-C-2 Kawasaki used in the first episodes of the "CHiPs" television series that introduced the rest of the nation to the state's highway officers. (more...)

Rare Longitude Papers Bought by National Maritime Museum
From 24 Hour Museum: The National Maritime Museum, London, has bought a number of eighteenth century manuscripts and personal papers that provide a unique solution to the 'longitude problem'. (more...)

Gold Bar at Smithsonian Deemed Fake
From Fox News: After two years of study, scientists say a gold bar on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is a fraud. The nearly five-ounce ingot is part of a huge coin display at the museum's National Numismatic Collection. It was thought to have been made in 1857 by Justh & Hunter company in Marysville, Calif. (more...)

Horniman Museum Preserves Musical Instruments
From BBC News: The Horniman museum in Forest Hill, London, has acquired around 7,000 instruments in total and recently opened an exhibition to display some of the rarest. (more...)

Montreal's Musée d'art Contemporain and the National Gallery of Canada Organize Show for the Canadian Pavillion in Venice
From Canadian Art: When Montreal’s Musée d’art contemporain chose the always controversial Jana Sterbak to represent Canada at this summer’s Venice Biennale, Sterbak went out and bought a dog. (more...)

New Exhibit at Indiana State Museum
From NWI Link.com: A new exhibit featuring artwork by Adam Emory Albright will open at the Indiana State Museum on Nov. 9. "Adam's Children: The Paintings of Adam Emory Albright" features more than 35 of Albright's nostalgic paintings of country children at work and play. (more...)

National Maritime Museum: Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I On View
From International Herald Tribune: "Elizabeth" a fascinating exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Organized for the 400th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death, the show illustrates how her years on the throne heralded England's emergence as a European power with global ambitions. (more...)

DeCordova: Permanent Collection Retrospective
From amnnews.com: "DeCordova Collects: Highlights of the Sybil and Stephen Stone Collection" presents highlights from the 164 works that Stephen and Sybil Stone, of Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, who have generously given to DeCordova over the course of forty years. (more...)

Block Gallery: White House Collection On View
From absolutearts.com: "The White House Collection of American Crafts" (July 18 to Aug. 24) -- will be on view in the Main Gallery of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art on the Northwestern University Evanston campus. (more...)

Science Museum (London): Props and Outfits from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on View
From BBC News Online: Hundreds of props and outfits from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy will be on exhibit in London's Science Museum. Visitors can uncover the cinematic secrets of Middle-earth during this interactive tour. (more...)

New Orleans Museum of Art: Rare American Indian Artifacts on View
From OnLineAthens.com: On display at the New Orleans Museum of Art are a handful of rare American Indian artifacts from tribes living under French and Spanish rule on the rim of the Gulf of Mexico and in the woods of the Mississippi Valley. (more...)

The Truman Library: Newly Discovered Diary
From CNN.com: 42 handwritten entries in a diary that until now, was mistakenly catalogued and filed with the book collection of the Truman Library. It remained in the stacks, apparently undisturbed, for 38 years until library staff began moving the collection earlier this year. (more...)

Clinton Presidential Library Construction Progresses
From CNN.com: The world's largest museum design firm promises its work on the Clinton Presidential Library will strike a balance between entertainment and education, between the former president's feats and failures. (more...)

Hands on Experiences at the Corning Museum of Glass
From MSN BC: In an effort to attract and engage museum-goers, art museums offer hands-on excitement. (more...)

Unique Installations Created by 5 Art Schools at LACMALab
From Absolute Arts.com: An unprecedented collaboration between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and five major art schools in Los Angeles has produced the next LACMALab exhibition in LACMA’s Boone Children’s Gallery. (more...)

National Portrait Gallery Celebrates New Space
From CNN.com: New galleries at the National Portrait Gallery in London tell the story of the Regency period through innovative multimedia displays. (more...)

National Maritime Museum Wins Award
From Re:Source: The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich wins the Museums Computer Group's first Jodi Mattes Access Award. (more...)