I did want to mention before too much time passed that I visited the World War I Museum in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago. It's a very popular museum and largely a good one. The two videos are really outstanding. I mean first...
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Leaving behind the question of whether the Senate should be debating new Smithsonian museums instead of working up a COVID-19 relief package, the fact that a single senator can hold.
In the last month, I've had two opportunities to travel to New York for work. That means--museums! OMG, museums! I was so happy! Of course, tickets are timed, limited admissions,.
Republican hopefuls for the republican president ticket meet at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, D.C. in 1997. From right: Illinois Sen. Charles Percy, Michigan Sen. George Romney, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. (AP Photo). The COVID pandemic is absolutely decimating the museum world. Most of these...
The fight to protect our past, in terms of having archives and preserving places, is a tenuous and hard one. It doesn't get better when the Trump administration decides to.
I mentioned last week how impressed I was with how Montpelier now represents the slave experience. While not mentioning that great site, this is a good article on just how.
So last weekend I was in Washington, D.C. to give a talk at a union conference and then I spent a couple days traveling through Virginia. That part of the trip was funded by grave donations and I assure you that I saw about 3...
One of my very favorite museums in the country is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. It does an absolutely wonderful job of taking you into a lost world of.
Great use of our national museums..... Each year, leaders of the international business and finance community gather in the American Museum of Natural History for a black-tie gala hosted.
I managed to see the exhibit at MOMA on the architecture of Yugoslavia and it was basically one of the very best exhibits I've ever seen. You can say that communist architecture was ridiculous--and maybe it was--but it had real ideas behind it that are...
Yesterday was so-called Giving Tuesday. So I want to ask you all a favor. Over the last 6 plus years, I have provided you with a lot of free labor.
I want to bring up a comment about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame from the last music thread, all the way back in late July. The RnR Hall.