Milwaukee Art Museum features new exhibition featuring quilts from the 1700s and 1800s

Milwaukee museum features quilt exhibition

MILWAUKEE – A new exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum will feature one of the world’s finest collections of early American quilts.
Featuring rare textiles of the late 1700s and early 1800s, it’s called “American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection” and it runs Saturday through September 6.
Quilts make political statements, celebrate … Read : Milwaukee Art Museum features new exhibition featuring quilts from the 1700s and 1800s.

O’Keeffe County: Northern NM saturated with beauty that inspired American modernist painter

O’Keeffe draws art lovers to northern New Mexico

GHOST RANCH, N.M. – Sandstone cliffs rise from the desert floor in layers of orange, pink and yellow, limited only by the expansive blue sky that pushes down on the sprawling northern New Mexico ranch from above. Save for a few birds chirping and a breeze whistling through …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : O’Keeffe County: Northern NM saturated with beauty that inspired American modernist painter.

JetBlue adding another nonstop route from Boston, this one to Phoenix

JetBlue to launch Boston-Phoenix nonstop service

NEW YORK – JetBlue will offer nonstop service from Boston to Phoenix beginning in September, the airline said Tuesday.
JetBlue, based in New York, has been ramping up service at Boston’s Logan International Airport as it attempts to become more entrenched in the Northeast.
JetBlue Airways Corp. is offering introductory fares starting … Original article on : JetBlue adding another nonstop route from Boston, this one to Phoenix.

NM Hispanic art museum temporarily closes for cleaning through June 17

NM Hispanic art museum temporarily closes
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The art museum at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque is closing for a month.

The 11,000-square-foot art museum will be shut down from Monday through June 17 for a thorough cleaning of exhibition space and art work due to a fire in the adjacent forested area … Read more : NM Hispanic art museum temporarily closes for cleaning through June 17.

US airfares fall 7.4 pct. in 4Q of 2009, marks largest year-over-year decline since 2001

Government says US airfares fell in 4th quarter

NEW YORK – Average airfares in the U.S. fell 7.4 percent in the last three months of 2009, the biggest year-over-year decline since 2001, the Transportation Department’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics said Wednesday.
Airfares in the fourth quarter of last year were also the lowest for that three-month period …. Source  : US airfares fall 7.4 pct. in 4Q of 2009, marks largest year-over-year decline since 2001.