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Generous death Generous death Nancy Pickard Someone murdered two of the local art museum's most wealthy donors, and hinted that Jenny Cain, head of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, would be next. OL16025885W
A love for the beautiful A love for the beautiful Susan Jaques "Some of the country's best art is hidden in plain sight, in museums largely unknown outside their regions. How works by masters like Rembrandt, Rodin, Ansel Adams, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai,… OL16695167W
Radical Museology Radical Museology Claire Bishop In the face of austerity cuts to public funding, a handful of museums of contemporary art have devised compelling alternatives to the mantra of 'bigger is better and richer'. In Radical Museology,… OL17068310W
Murder in the abstract Murder in the abstract Susan C. Shea Danielle O'Rourke's gala evening at the Devor Museum ends in catastrophe when the body of a young artist plummets from her office window. The police label it murder and suspect Dani, the Museum's chi… OL17724949W
The lethal partner The lethal partner Jake Page Mo Bowdre gets involved when a Santa Fe art gallery owner is accused of murdering the gallery's manager and some newly-discoverd Georgia O'Keeffe paintings disappear. OL17744350W
Mr Bean Mr Bean Joanna Strange A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London sent Mr Bean. But something… OL17933337W
Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents Art Gallery of Ontario. DVD focuses on the addition to the Art Gallery of Toronto designed by Frank Gehry to house the Thomson collection. Includes interviews with the collector, museum staff and the architect. OL18647105W
The Russian dreambook of color and flight The Russian dreambook of color and flight Gina Ochsner Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her observations and her dreams of finding love and escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum, a place which holds a fantastic a… OL18785166W
The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City (Ohio Bicentennial) The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City (Ohio Bicentennial) Julie Aronson "The nine brief essays in this volume trace the thematic arrangement of the Cincinnati Wing galleries, situating the artwork in the context of Cincinnati's unique history as it progressed from a fron… OL19540143W
Wagstaff Wagstaff Philip Gefter A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon)… OL19637079W
The dream colony The dream colony Walter Hopps "An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist… OL19710889W
How to visit an art museum How to visit an art museum Johan Idema The only way to understand art is to go to a museum and look at it, French painter Renoir suggests. But once inside, this is easier said than done. What do you do when the label simply reads "Untitle… OL19751114W
Art travel guide Art travel guide Connie Terwilliger This guide contains listings of over 120 contemporary art sites across the United States, with over 100 full-color photographs--art listings rarely found in other travel guides. If you are an art lov… OL19963617W
Ways of curating Ways of curating Hans Ulrich Obrist "The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft"-- OL19993095W
The case of the counterfeit painting The case of the counterfeit painting Steven Brezenoff From the author of the best-selling Field Trip Mysteries series comes Museum Mysteries, a series featuring an exciting group of intrepid young friends. When Clementine Wim spots a famous painting bei… OL20033057W
Curating at the edge Curating at the edge Kate Bonansinga Located less than a mile from Juarez, the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso is a non-collecting institution that serves the Paso del Norte region. … OL20547924W
Gu gong san bu qu Gu gong san bu qu Jianhua Zhang <Summary in Chinese field only> OL20858128W
The Capitoline Museums The Capitoline Museums Musei capitolini (Rome, Italy) 208 p. : 24 cm OL2191240W
Carl and the mysterious nibbler Carl and the mysterious nibbler Lynn Estes Friess Carl the inquisitive chipmunk learns of a mystery at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where he is a guide for animals. OL24253226W
Where are you, Ernest and Celestine? Where are you, Ernest and Celestine? Gabrielle Vincent When Celestine momentarily loses Ernest at the museum, she fears that he prefers the paintings to her. OL50170W
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