MOUNT VERNON, VA (AP)- It was one of the few things George Washington wanted to do but never got around to: build a library to hold his official and personal papers. On Thursday, more than 200 years after Washington wrote of the idea, dignitaries brok…
Home Movie of President Kennedy in Houston Donated to Sixth Floor Museum
DALLAS, TX.- The Rice Hotel in Houston was the second stop of a planned five-city Texas visit that was to have finished at a fund-raiser dinner in Austin. The Kennedy assassination happened in Dallas the next day. Shortly before 9 p.m. in the hotel’s g…
Mexican Funerary Masks Travel to France for Exhibition at the Pinacothèque de Paris
MEXICO CITY.- After its successful presentation at the National Anthropology Museum, the exhibition “Rostros de la divinidad. Los mosaicos mayas de piedra verde” (Faces of Divinity. Greenstone Maya Mosaics) will travel to Paris, France, where…
Ground Broken on Frank Gehry’s $81 Million Underground Utility Space at Philadelphia Art Museum
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It’s not typical for a loading dock to be the celebrated subject of a groundbreaking ceremony, but Frank Gehry is not your typical architect. Gehry joined more than 100 dignitaries, philanthropists and art aficionados Tuesday at th…
Office of Cultural Education in Albany Launches New Netherland Research Center
ALBANY, NY.- A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 officially opened the New Netherland Research Center (NNRC) on the 7th floor of the New York State Library. The NNRC will focus attention on New York State ’s ri…
Office of Cultural Education Launches New Netherland Research Center
ALBANY, NY.- A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 officially opened the New Netherland Research Center (NNRC) on the 7th floor of the New York State Library. The NNRC will focus attention on New York State ’s ri…
Rudy Giuliani’s New York City Hall Portrait, Painted by Everett Raymond Kinstler, is Unveiled
NEW YORK (AP).- Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani returned to City Hall on Tuesday for the unveiling of his official portrait, which shows him in a dark pinstripe suit as a tribute to his beloved New York Yankees. The painting, which captured Giuliani’s trad…
Funerary Masks of Six Maya Rulers on View at the National Museum of Anthropology
MEXICO CITY.- The goods found in graves of six leaders of the classic period of Maya culture (AD 200-900), which had been distributed to various museums after the exploration of their graves, now recover their original meaning in an exhibition that ope…