Author: Darko Topalski

WASHINGTON, DC.- Until recently, visitors to
Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., faced an
unexpected challenge: they could not use their cell phones unless they were near
a window or door. The solid construction of the Smithsonian’s historic
buildings made it nearly impossible for cell phone signals to penetrate the
walls. The 100-year-old National Museum of Natural History, for example, has
granite-faced walls that are nearly three feet thick.

NEW YORK, NY.- Record-breaking attendance at the
museum has been recorded for 2009, the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark
building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Over 1.3 million visitors came to the
museum this past year, enjoying groundbreaking exhibitions such as The
Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989; Frank Lloyd Wright:
From Within Outward; The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural; and
the major Kandinsky exhibition.

MADRID.- In a difficult and risky mission, a
committee formed by the persons responsible of the European and American museums
worked together to save Spanish Works of art during that country’s Civil
War. Works of art from the Prado Museum, the Academy of Fine Arts in
San Fernando, the Escorial, the Royal Palace, National Library and those owned
by the Church as well as those from prívate collections, started a journey that
took them through different Spanish cities and ended up in Geneva, where they
were protected until the end of the war.

TYLER,
TX– The Tyler Museum of Art during the first part of
2010, and you will discover a selection of the Museum’s latest
acquisitions. But New Works: Highlights from the Permanent
Collection does more than simply present a sampling of significant pieces
recently obtained by the TMA; the exhibition tells a tale of a growing
and vibrant institution that has, since 1971, cultivated the community’s
interest in the visual arts and developed an extensive permanent collection that
is both interesting and important. New Works: Highlights from the
Permanent Collection will remain on display in the Museum’s North Gallery
through Sunday, May 23, 2010.