To lead the museum, Mr. Rush arrived most recently from a similar post at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Boston, where he served during a controversial attempt by Brandeis to sell the collection and close the museum.

WSJ: A Mini Bilbao Opens in Michigan

The modern capital has become an outdoor museum for post-modernist architecture.

CNN: AFTER THE BANG

The new buildings face the Kimbell Art Museum, the finest post-war building in Texas, and the building against which any new architecture in the state will be measured in the current museum-athon.

ECONOMIST: Museum architecture

The second-largest art museum in the country hangs masterpieces aplenty, especially Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces.

BBC: A perfect day in Chicago

Post-fireworks, revellers will be able to warm up during a dance party at the museum.

BBC: Embracing winter in Ottawa

He's been busy in his post-film life, too, producing colorful paintings that have been shown in the National Museum of London, among other locations.

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The museum, which was opened by the Queen in 1983, was voted Scotland's second greatest post-war building in a magazine poll of architects in 2005.

BBC: Glasgow & West Scotland