Exhibit Notes

The biggest event in Washington, DC's museum world last weekend was the opening of the $450 million, seven story, 250,000 square foot Newseum, dedicated to the history of news gathering. Online, it offers Today's Front Pages, each day's front pages from nearly 600 newspapers around the world. David Darlington,"Newseum Re-opens April 11th," AHA Today, 8 April, is a convenient introduction, with links, to the new museum. Edward Rothstein's"Chasing the News: Mark Twain's Inkwell to Blogger's Slippers," NYT, 11 April, gives the Newseum a critical review.

Holland Cotter,"When the Islamic World Was Inspired by the West," NYT, 28 March, reviews"Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the 18th and 19th Centuries," an exhibit at Hunter College's Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery. Stefano Carboni,"East/West and the Central Role of Islamic Art," 3quarksdaily, 14 April, is the exhibit catalogue's introductory essay by a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

John Noble Wilford,"How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis," NYT, 15 April, reviews"Plague in Gotham! Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York," an exhibit at the New York Historical Society. A slide show of the exhibit is here. The exhibit's blog is here.