I recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which had 2150 mostly young women in attendance.
IN London, Washington and, most recently, New York, attendance at the traveling exhibition on Charles and Ray Eames, the postwar design mavericks, broke museum records.
Nonprofit groups formed recently to promote attendance and to lobby for better data collection, like Get Schooled and Attendance Works.
In a few cases, they have rescued churches struggling to find a following; a Methodist church in Columbus, Ohio, recently reported that attendance had more than doubled after it made a point of welcoming gay parishioners.
A spokesperson for the memorial site said the invitations to ambassador Vladimir Grinin of Russia and ambassador Pavlo Klimkin of Ukraine had gone out some time before the dramatic decline in relations between the two countries, but that both representatives had recently confirmed their attendance.
Russian-born plenary speaker Eugene Koonin, a biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, recently canceled his attendance, he says, for "various reasons … some of them personal".
Plus, the heartthrob recently was in attendance for home-opener losses for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks.
She accompanied a friend to a book party, where Mr. Olson, recently divorced, was in attendance.
The couple, Doreen C. Boxer and Cynthia Zapata, left the church in tears after winning a contest recognizing the most recently married couple in attendance.
Ruscha said that the MOCA board has been focused recently on increasing museum attendance, which has traditionally lagged other major L.A. museums.
