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Millennium on View is a new visual arts program developed by Millennium Hotels and Resorts (MHR) in partnership with many of North America’s leading museums and cultural organizations, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Millennium on View room package deals may include tickets and passes to exhibition previews, exclusive receptions, and private tours. Given the fact that tourists rank the visual arts among their top reasons for traveling, MHR encourages cultural tourists to use the program as a portal to the art world by offering updates on modern and contemporary art fairs, biennials, and festivals.

Whether museums have to pay to be included in the program is unclear and it remains to be seen if such loyalty programs will be mutually beneficial in the long run.

Go to website Millennium on View

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Museums, including powerhouses such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, have come under increasing fire from Italy, Greece and other countries with vast antiquities troves that want the return of priceless artwork they claim was illegally acquired.

Meanwhile, culture mavens in Italy and France protest when their governments launch international ventures, such as sending a Leonardo da Vinci painting to Japan or opening a branch of Paris’ Louvre Museum on the Persian Gulf.

But some experts and curators say this is actually the moment for museums to reinvent themselves by focusing less on buying and more on long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other institutions abroad.

Read full article (USA Today, June 9, 2007)

MoMAvideos presents exhibition previews, public programs, performances, and behind-the-scenes looks at conservation and art installation at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on YouTube. Right now you can watch videos of Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi creating the site-specific wall drawing ‘What happened to US?’ on one wall of the museum’s atrium. Perjovschi makes witty and incisive social and political images in response to current events. You can also download the newspaper that he created especially for this exhibition.

Dan Perjovschi, What happened to US?, is on view at The Museum of Modern Art from May 2 through August 27, 2007.

Go to website Museum of Modern Art
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Russian authorities and human rights campaigners have been alarmed by the growth of racial and ethnic tensions in Russia in the past few years. Dozens of people have been killed or injured in attacks by racists across Russia.

Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told president Putin durin a meeting that it was time to implement long-delayed plans by the Jewish community to set up a ‘museum of tolerance’. Putin has promised to give a month’s salary to help build a Jewish museum to promote tolerance and respect between faiths.

Read full article (The Guardian, June 5, 2007)

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Although the museum will not open its doors before 2009, a special website already reveals the extravagant design of the Centre Pompidou branch in the French city of Metz that is currently under construction. It will be France’s first example of cultural decentralisation organised by a national establishment, later to be followed by the Louvre at both Lens and Abu Dhabi. The website of the Centre Pompidou will take you through each major stage of the project, from the design phase until the grand opening and provides some good images of Shigeru Ban’s tent-like building.

Go to website Centre Pompidou-Metz
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