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64 tons of it. Artist Dale Chihuly brings a wall of Alaskan ice to Jerusalem to melt in the sun. AP (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
     AND: Hear an interview with Chihuly about the project NPR 10/4/99

Museum had to be closed for awhile on Sunday. CBC

The Whitney Museum teams up with Intel to explore how artists might use computers and the web. Wired

Coming soon to New York’s 5th Ave – and immune from mayoral sanction – the Museum of Sex. Philadelphia Inquirer

New York’s Radio City Music Hall has always been a fantasy palace. It’ll be even more so after reopening after a seven-month, $70 million restoration. New York Times

Edvard Munch’s Madonna will be on the auction block Thursday. Most major Munches are owned by museums, so this is an unusual opportunity But who could afford it? London Times

Rather than putting a century of American art in some sort of revealing context, the Whitney Museum’s enormous project “The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000,” is superficial  – nothing less than “the culmination of a century of suspender-snapping cultural nationalism” writes New York Magazine. New York Magazine