The Denver Art Museum kicks off Friday night with its mixedmedia event series Untitled on Friday, June 26, from 6 to 10 pm. Combining music, detours, art making, munchies and a cash bar, the final Friday of the month gets started at the DAM. Untitled #22 (Ps & Qs) takes visitors through the dos and don’ts of art handling and museum rituals.
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From humanity’s close relationship to chimpanzees to the missing link between land and sea creatures, the Harvard Museum of Natural History has capped off a year celebrating Darwin and “On the Origin of Species” with a new exhibit that puts evolution front and center.
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New York Photographer Amanda Means' dramatic black and white prints, some as large as 38 x 46, are made by using the leaf itself as a photographic negative. The compelling images offer new ways to think about the form and function of leaves, and their evolutionary history. This is the third of a series of photography exhibits at the Harvard Museum to explore the nexus between art and science.
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Two major paintings by the artists Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti have been saved for the nation through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme and will be permanently allocated to the Ashmolean Museum.
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The Museum of Fine Arts has filed a federal lawsuit to retain ownership of a 1913 oil painting sold during the Nazi occupation of Austria.
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The Prime Minister has re-appointed Professor Lisa Jardine and The Right Honourable Sir Timothy Sainsbury as Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum for a period of four years from 17 December 2007.
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Located in Washington, DC, the Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA) will be the premier institution in the United States dedicated to educating American and international audiences about the Armenian Genocide and its continuing consequences. Visitors to the Museum will come to understand the Armenian Genocide as the prototype for modern crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur.
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Famous composer Aram Khachaturian is much loved by those who have hurd "Saber Dance." Aram Khachaturian's house museum is located in Yerevan, Armenia and does a wonderful work in promoting international cultural events and education, keeping the name and the work of famous Armenian composer alive.
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The strange faces drawn on the first pottery made in the South Pacific more than 3,000 years ago have always been a mystery to scientists. Now their riddle may have been solved by new research done by two Field Museum scientists to be published in the February 2007 issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
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