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...late 1990s, the DIA hired Graham Beal, who formerly headed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to serve as its CEO. He arrived just as the DIA was set to launch a six-year, $158 million renovation and expansion. Beal's mandate: "to rethink how we present art to the general public." That meant tripling the amount of space devoted to the DIA's Native American art collection and opening a department to curate a collection of African-American art. Beal ordered that exhibit labels be more accessible to the masses. In one gallery, he added a virtual dining...
...easy to edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Now Schmidt and Co. have added the best available photo-editing tool. Strategically speaking, you might think of it as a carefully orchestrated effort to gradually sideline Microsoft's lumbering desktop software suite. To that end, Picnik will bolster Google's launch of its new Web-oriented Chrome operating system later this year. "The consumer market is evolving into a model where every useful or interesting application starts with a login to the cloud," says Nat Burgess, president of the Corum Group, an M&A advisory firm, and a member of Picnik...
...information about how people edit their photos. Because Picnik now enables people to edit photos they have stored through Yahoo! Mail, Flickr, Facebook and other services, Picnik also has info on photo usage all across the Web. Google craves data of that sort, particularly as it prepares to launch its cloud-based Chrome operating system...
...bill's biggest stumbling block may be the funding it would require. Created with the assistance of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the bill would raise the approximately $500,000 to $1 million necessary for its launch through a 2- or 3-cent tax per pound of pet food, says Florez, a Democrat who is chairman of the Food and Agriculture Committee. He estimated that after it's launch, the project could cost between $300,000 to $400,000 a year to maintain. Yet even that relatively small amount has some organizations, including a national pet-product trade group...
...With access to his father's vast real estate fortune, Spitzer could easily launch a new foundation to fight for causes he believes in. "There is a whole range of possibilities, from educational institutions to housing to microfinance in the developing world," says Avi Schick, a lawyer and the former head of New York's economic-development agency. "He hasn't figured out precisely what he will do." (See the top 10 political gaffes...