Our Legal Issues In Museum Administration

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A Moving Museum: The Merce Cunningham Collection

A dance is a lot more than just a lot of steps. Choreographers, dancers, composers, musicians, lighting designers, set designers, costumers, visual artists and others...
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A Museum in the Making: The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

New York, Berlin, Bilbao, Venice ... Abu Dhabi? "The new Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will be located in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island in Abu...
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Government sues to seize St. Louis museum’s mummy mask

According to St. Louis Today, the U.S. attorney's office moved to seize a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that was stolen from Egypt before being bought for...
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Stolen Rodin Sculpture Found but Disappearance Still a Mystery

Three years ago, the Israel Museum reported that Balzac Nude with Arms Crossed was missing. Though the sculpture was recovered shortly afterwards, neither museum officials...
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"Limited Edition" Murakami Lawsuit Settled …

In 2007, artist Takashi Murakami made the bold move of incorporating a boutique into his exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,...
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Creative American Folk Art Museum

Why can I not get my mortgage loan approved? Because some borrow more money than they can pay back. In June 2009, the American Folk...
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Next Chapter in the Seaport Museum History?

In Feb. 14, 2011, the Seaport Museum New York furloughed* 32 employees (curatorial and development department), reportedly half of its staff. That's not all, the...
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Museum Wants to Return Objects, How Refreshing

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Minor C. Keith, a railroad magnate and a founder of the United Fruit Company exported thousands of...
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Confirmed Missing from Egyptian Museum

On Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, Zahi Hawass, Egypt's antiquities minister, said that looters stole several artifacts from Cairo's Egyptian Museum. V&A News reported that "an...
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"A Revolution in Museum Practice"

"What's in a name?" A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or so we're told, but artists might argue that a work...
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Russia on Loan(s) again

On Feb. 2, 2011, The New York Times reported that Gauguin exhibit at the  National Gallery of Art will not have all the canvases expected....
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The State of Egyptian Antiquities Today: An Update

  Yesterday, Dr. Zahi Hawass was appointed as the Minister of Antiquities, a newly created department that will be charged with the care and protection...
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