Toronto has an assortment of museums, including the Royal Ontario Museum, recently designed by Daniel Libeskind, as well as lesser- known museums devoted to shoes (the Bata Shoe Museum), textiles (Textile Museum of Canada) and ceramics (the Gardiner Museum).
Mr. Weiss, who will start at the Guggenheim in August, is well known in the museum world.
Mr. Anderson is well known in the museum community, having run the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1998 to 2003, when he resigned after disagreements with its board.
"After the war May comes home to St . Louisand starts asking friends in the art world, 'Who's out there who's really good and not too well known?' " said the museum director, Brent Benjamin.
Across the Allegheny on Pittsburgh's North Side, art is also a catalyst for redevelopment, as is already well known from the museum dedicated to Pittsburgh's native son Andy Warhol.
Mr. Scott asked James Johnson Sweeney, well known art historian and museum director to serve as chairman of the selection jury for the show which featured 50 living artists & sculptors as well as a display of ancient Celtic art.
That's because it's at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, an art museum well known to the cognoscenti but only dimly visible to most of the 23 million Americans who live within a 100-mile drive of it.
The show is being pitched as a "We Are the World" statement by a museum well known for opening franchises faster than you can say "Viva Las Vegas" (to name the location of the newest Guggenheim node).
Its museum is well known to long-ago tourists wishing to see the treasures of the so-called Roman "dead cities" of northern Syria, and it has been in a virtual stage of siege for well over a year.
2. Who is Aernout Mik? Write a biography highlighting his background, museum exhibits and well known works.
Antiquities experts said the most valuable artifacts taken from the Baghdad museum were too well known to be offered publicly for sale.
