VATICAN CITY (AP).- The Vatican’s Apostolic Library is reopening to scholars following a three-year, euro9-million ($11.5- million) renovation to install climate-controlled rooms for its precious manuscripts and state-of-the-art security measures to pr…
Construction Work to Start on The Photographers’ Gallery
LONDON.- The Photographers’ Gallery is creating an iconic new building in the heart of London’s West End. On 19 September 2010, the Gallery will close its doors to the public for a year while we embark on our ambitious development of the buil…
Construction Work to Start on The Photographers’ Gallery
LONDON.- The Photographers’ Gallery is creating an iconic new building in the heart of London’s West End. On 19 September 2010, the Gallery will close its doors to the public for a year while we embark on our ambitious development of the buil…
Imperial War Museum to Open Lord Ashcroft Gallery in November
LONDON.- Imperial War Museum London opens the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, its first major permanent gallery for ten years, this November. The new gallery, paid for by a £5million donation from Lord Ashcroft, KCMG, will house the Extraordinary Heroes exhibi…
Art Gallery to Save Energy of 80 Households a Year, with "Green Gallery"
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia will today prepare the way to install state-of-the-art, energy efficient lighting in its heritage Elder Wing of Australian art, in the second phase of the “Greening of the Gallery” program. The St…
Art Gallery to Save Energy of 80 Households a Year, with "Green Gallery" Project
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia will today prepare the way to install state-of-the-art, energy efficient lighting in its heritage Elder Wing of Australian art, in the second phase of the “Greening of the Gallery” program. The St…
It Bag, Watch Out: France’s Duvelleroy Folding Fan is Back
PARIS (AP).- Forget Balenciaga’s “Giant City” and the other luxury purses that vie for the title of “It Bag” of the moment. If two young Parisian fashionistas have their way, next season’s must-have accessory might just be a relic resurrected from a by…
Museum Launches Groundbreaking Explorer App to Rave Reviews
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Museum of Natural History’s Explorer, a groundbreaking free app for iPhone and iPod touch that is part navigation system, part personal tour guide, is already garnering rave reviews. Explorer is “nothing less than …
Museum Launches Groundbreaking Explorer App to Rave Reviews
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Museum of Natural History’s Explorer, a groundbreaking free app for iPhone and iPod touch that is part navigation system, part personal tour guide, is already garnering rave reviews. Explorer is “nothing less than …
Lights! Camera! Action! The Tate Movie Project Launches
LONDON.- Tate announced yesterday the launch of the interactive website and national roadshow of the Tate Movie Project. Children from across the country are invited to take part in creating the Tate Movie, the first of its kind, an animation film mad…