Greece’s New Acropolis Museum receives hundreds of visitors on opening dayATHENS, Greece — The new Acropolis Museum opened its gates Sunday to hundreds of visitors eager to explore its vast collection of sculptures and artifacts from ancient Greece. Greece opens New Acropolis Museum with lavish party; seeks return of London sculpturesATHENS, Greece — Gods, heroes and long-dead mortals stepped off their plinths into the evening sky of Athens on Saturday during the lavish launch of the new Acropolis Museum, a decades-old dream that Greece hopes will also help reclaim a cherished part of its heritage from Britain. Greece’s New Acropolis Museum to open with lavish party; seeks return of London sculpturesATHENS, Greece — The golden age of ancient Athens comes to life Saturday as Greece opens its new Acropolis Museum with a lavish party, bolstering its long campaign for the return of 2,500-year-old sculptures stripped from the citadel more than two centuries ago. Greece’s New Acropolis Museum bolsters claim for return of Parthenon frieze from LondonATHENS, Greece — Greece opens its long-anticipated new Acropolis Museum Saturday, boosting its decades-old campaign for the return of 2,500-year-old sculptures removed from the ancient citadel by a 19th century British diplomat. Architect Rafael Vinoly lets art be the star in his Cleveland Museum of Art expansionCLEVELAND — Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Rodin and other masters are the stars of the biggest expansion in the history of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and that suits architect Rafael Vinoly just fine. Greece’s New Acropolis Museum shines spotlight on missing Parthenon marblesATHENS, Greece — Greece opens its long-anticipated new Acropolis Museum Saturday, boosting its decades-old campaign for the return of 2,500-year-old sculptures removed from the ancient citadel by a 19th century British diplomat. Bon Jovi, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jason Mraz among those honored at Songwriters Hall of FameNEW YORK — Jon Bon Jovi considers writing classic songs as a way of being remembered throughout time. Hermitage museum opening offshoot in Amsterdam where Russian art collection began 300 yrs agoAMSTERDAM — The Hermitage is exhibiting czarist opulence at a new satellite museum in Amsterdam, the city where Peter the Great started Russia’s fabulous state art collection 300 years ago and which inspired the design for his own capital, St. Petersburg. Greece’s new Acropolis Museum set for weekend opening after years of delaysATHENS, Greece — About 1,500 years after Christian zealots vandalized the Parthenon’s pagan sculptures, Greece’s Orthodox Church has formally blessed the new Acropolis Museum, set to open this weekend after years of delays. FBI: Painting of Hitler and Jesus found in apartment of accused Holocaust museum shooterWASHINGTON — Authorities have taken more than 30 items, including an image of Hitler and Jesus, from the home of a white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Robert Indiana’s EAT sign to be displayed after 44-year hiatus as part of new exhibitVINALHAVEN, Maine — Robert Indiana never saw his oversized EAT sign illuminated after it went up at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. A day after being turned on, the sign with its hundreds of light bulbs was turned off because it was attracting hungry tourists who thought it was a restaurant, not a piece of art. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Ohio welcomes fans for Springsteen FanFestCLEVELAND — A weekend of glory days is planned at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Ohio, which is welcoming fans to a Bruce Springsteen FanFest. For 80th anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth, museum will display her actual diariesAMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House museum says it will put the teenage Holocaust victim’s diaries and other writings on permanent display to commemorate what would have been her 80th birthday on Friday. French minister: Picasso sketchbook stolen at Paris museum will be hard to sellPARIS — A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso stolen from the Paris museum bearing his name will be hard for thieves to sell, France’s culture minister said Wednesday. Parties less exuberant, art a bit harsher: 1 view from 53rd Venice BiennaleVENICE, Italy — Quieter parties. Harsher art. Gift of gab: Lidstrom has no plans to take day off from media like Crosby during Cup finalsPITTSBURGH — You can count on Nicklas Lidstrom meeting the media every day during the Stanley Cup finals. Bigger River Walk in San Antonio lets visitors water-taxi upriver to museum, other attractionsSAN ANTONIO — For decades, the channel of the San Antonio River north of the popular restaurants and retail shops downtown was overgrown and blighted — the kind of place tourists went only if they made a wrong turn. But not anymore. Rome’s Ara Pacis museum vandalized, colors of Italian flag painted on US-designed buildingROME — The back wall of a controversial museum designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier was painted overnight with the red and green colors of the Italian flag. New Smithsonian exhibit shows the complex variety, life of antsWASHINGTON — Running a museum is no picnic, but the Smithsonian is attracting ants anyway. Angels & Demons in Rome: Tour visits sites related to book and movieROME — On the stone steps of the 500-year-old Santa Maria del Popolo church, our tour group huddled around our guide in a tight circle. Anchorage Museum opens new high-end addition with glitzy traveling gold exhibitANCHORAGE, Alaska — All that glitters at the Anchorage Museum is not gold. Take, for instance, a new addition with a shimmering glass facade made from more than 600 panels designed to reflect Alaska’s natural splendor. Smithsonian hosts its first Hollywood premiere for ‘Museum’ flickWASHINGTON — Ben Stiller and Amy Adams are bringing Hollywood to the capital of the museum world for the premier of “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.” Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum acquires Michelangelo’s earliest known painting hidden for yearsFORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only U.S. museum to display a Michelangelo painting after acquiring his earliest known work, a rare treasure that was tucked away and doubted as authentic for more than a century. Thieves steal 6 landscape paintings from Dutch museum, the country’s 2nd art heist this monthAMSTERDAM — Thieves pried open the emergency door of a small Dutch museum with an iron bar and made off with six 17th- and 19th-century landscape paintings — the second major art heist in 10 days in the Netherlands. Tearful Yoko Ono previews items from Rock Hall’s John Lennon exhibit, including bloody clothesNEW YORK — A new John Lennon exhibit is particularly emotional for his widow, Yoko Ono. Besides guitars and other items, it also includes a paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the night he was shot to death. Smithsonian hopes ‘Night at the Museum’ will inspire kids to see the real thing in WashingtonWASHINGTON — What happens after dark in the halls of a museum? A few lucky kids will get to find out in the months ahead, thanks to some big promotions and travel deals drawing on the buzz of Hollywood’s new museum flick, “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.” Statue of Liberty crown to reopen July 4 for 1st time since 9/11NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty’s crown, with its exhilarating view of New York’s skyscrapers, bridges and seaport, is reopening on Independence Day for the first time since terrorists leveled the World Trade Center just across the harbor. Surprise Rodin bronze part of $2M restoration for New York lighthouse honoring French explorerCROWN POINT, N.Y. — More than 10,000 campgrounds dot the American landscape. But only at the state-run campground in this remote Lake Champlain town can you find a Rodin sculpture on public display just steps away from campers pitching tents and grilling burgers. Taiwan art collection reflects tumultuous history, better relations with ChinaTAIPEI, Taiwan — Sixty years later Zhuang Ling remembers it all — the rain pelting down onto the roiling sea, his mother retching from seasickness and, of course, the cargo of priceless art works the freighter Chung Ting was carrying from China to the Taiwanese city of Keelung. Statue of Liberty crown, closed since 9/11, to reopen July 4; lottery may decide who goesNEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty’s crown, with its exhilarating view of New York’s skyscrapers, bridges and seaport, is reopening on Independence Day for the first time since terrorists leveled the World Trade Center just across the harbor. New exhibition shows the Louvre Museum during WWII, its paintings boxed up, galleries emptyPARIS — On the eve of World War II, curators at the Louvre swathed the museum’s most priceless painting — the “Mona Lisa” — in layers of waterproof paper, boxed it up and spirited it to the French countryside for safekeeping. Leonardo da Vinci’s smiling maiden moved another five times during the war before she was brought, safe and sound, back to the Louvre. NYC’s Guggenheim celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition on architect Frank Lloyd WrightNEW YORK — For Frank Lloyd Wright, the slow rise of the spiral ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum allowed paintings to be displayed as if on an artist’s easel. Norman Rockwell’s reinstalled studio opens to the publicSTOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Norman Rockwell Museum has taken the artist’s studio back in time to 1960. NY, VT mark Samuel de Champlain’s 1609 explorations; lakeside communities hosting eventsCROWN POINT, N.Y. — The sculpture of Samuel de Champlain gazes up the lake he explored 400 years ago this summer, opening the way for Europeans who made extensive use of the waterway during their 200-year struggle for control of North America. Buddhist calm, bustling markets: Explore Seoul’s ancient sites, modern amenities on a budgetSEOUL — With the South Korean currency, called the won, down against the dollar, now’s the time to wander the grounds of 600-year-old palaces, meditate in Buddhist temples and trawl cafes and markets in the labyrinthine capital city, Seoul. |
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