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Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz announced in an e-mail to students Monday that the university would sell the collection of its Rose Art Museum in a public auction to ease a budget strained by the ongoing financial crisis...
...genre. And one is that when an action hero warns his daughter about imminent danger - say, the potential perils of spending the summer in Paris with a classmate - Papa knows whereof he preacheth. Perhaps some angel has whispered to him that if the girls did just go safely museum-hopping, it wouldn't be a Luc Besson movie...
...Science Museum, London Whatever age you are, it manages to be interactive and thrilling. I love it. My wife and kids love it. We go every time we are in London...
...Boston Selling Art to Save a School In order to combat a crippling budget crisis, Brandeis University said it will close its Rose Art Museum and sell all 6,000 pieces in its $400 million collection. The decision, which the state attorney general plans to review, sparked an outcry. "It is not only unprincipled, but bad economics," said art historian Robert Storr...
Splendid as Palazzo Barbarigo is, it's a shame to see so many Venetian palaces used as hotels. Good news, then, that after a 20-year restoration, the 16th century Palazzo Grimani has opened as a museum. The palace boasts doorways carved from precious marble, exquisite frescoes, majolica-tiled fireplaces and rare surviving examples of pastellone (powdered marble) floors...