Word: collectionitis
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No one is safe around Chelsea Handler. On her E! late-night show, Chelsea Lately, the comedienne takes noticeable pleasure in skewering celebrities, often right to their faces. The author of My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands and New York Times No. 1 best seller Are You...
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology houses more than six million cultural objects and 500,000 photographic records, constituting one of the oldest and largest collections of indigenous artifacts in the Western Hemisphere. Five hundred of the objects are on display in the permanent exhibit, called �...
In the late 1990s, the DIA hired Graham Beal, who formerly headed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to serve as its CEO. He arrived just as the DIA was set to launch a six-year, $158 million renovation and expansion. Beal's mandate: "to rethink how we present...
Still, Beal continued to push for an Islamic-art gallery. In the summer of 2005, he hired Heather Ecker, a well-regarded curator whose background includes a year at Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art. Ecker carefully combed the 900-plus pieces of Islamic art in the DIA's collection...
The government expects to close the $75 billion fiscal gap by cutting operating expenses 10%, freezing wages and halting new hires. The plan calls for the creation of a new independent statistical service, which should make it harder for officials to manipulate data. It also includes an improved tax-collection...