National Museum of Pinball in Washington to close

 The National Museum of Pinball in Washington is being forced to close after only five months.

David Silverman, who developed up to $300,000 of his own money to help open the Museum, tells the Washington Post that he has recently received a letter informing him that need to leave space to third floor in Georgetown in July.

The Museum features 200 pinball machines, some where visitors can play, and poster detailing the art and history of the game.

Silverman said he was invited to leave to make place for the renovation of the Mall. Vornado Realty Trust officials refused to comment on the newspaper on the rental contract.

Silverman said he remains committed to keep the living museum.

MoMA NYC to buy Art Museum folk Next Door

 Museum of Modern Art in the city of New York has agreed to buy the building of the financially strapped Museum of Folk art.

The building is next to MoMA, which means that MoMA could expand the exhibition space of its facilities in West 53 rd Street. Immediate isn't for the building of folk art have been announced.

Popular Art Museum will continue to operate at its gallery space near Lincoln Center. A smaller institution spokesperson confirmed the sale, which will help eliminate debt bond. The sale price was not disclosed.

The Museum of the popular Art of the Director, Maria Ann Conelli, announced last week that it was progress in July.

US Panel calls for Smithsonian Latino Museum

 A federal commission calls for a national museum dedicated to the history of American Latino and culture to be built next to the Capitol in the Smithsonian Institution to join ethnic museums on the history of native American and African-American.

A copy of the report of the commission obtained by the Associated Press advance his exit Thursday, said that the Museum would represent Latinos on the National Mall where their heritage has been absent.

"The mall, more than any other public space in our country indeed tell the story of America, and yet this story is not complete," wrote the President of the Henry r. Munoz III commission. "It is also a living memorial that recognizes that the Latinos were here well before 1776, and that in this new century, the future is more Latino, more than 50 million people and growing."

The commission shall submit its report Thursday to the Congress and the White House.

It calls the Museum be established as the Smithsonian American Latino Museum. The commission recommends that Congress provide half the cost of a Museum of $ 600 million to be built near the mirror of water on the grounds of the Capitol. Private donations would cover the rest.

The original plans for Washington called for museums or civic buildings such sites around the Capitol, the report notes.

Since 2009, the commission has studied the feasibility of such a Museum, the fundraising potential and how it would affect local and regional Latino museums. It relies also on models from National Museum of Smithsonian of the American Indian and its planned National Museum of African American History and Culture, is expected to open in four years near the Washington Monument.

The report presents a case to track the 500 years of indigenous peoples and Latino history with roots in Europe, Africa and Asia before the English settlers founded Jamestown. He Spanish explorers note were the first to land in Florida and established outposts that led finally to cities such as San Francisco and Santa Fe, n.m..

It follows a report from 1994 to the Smithsonian "Stubborn neglect" which found that U.S. Hispanics were the only large contributor to American civilization not definitively recognized the museum complex.

The bipartisan commission proposal comes at a time of budget constraints, and as many groups wants to add museums on the National Mall, including sites devoted to the history of women, immigration and gays.

"Some will ask in these very difficult economic times, how we can afford such a business," wrote Munoz. "The real question is how we can not.".

Former President George w. Bush signed the legislation establishing the Latino Museum commission in 2008, and President Barack Obama, with the leaders of the Congress, appointed a commission of 23 members. It includes Eva Longoria TV "Desperate Housewives", producer Emilio Estefan and others for their expertise in museums, fundraising and Latino culture.

Work of the graffiti artist him land in the Museum and the prison (Reuters)

an artist of graffiti, whose work is went to earlier this month a prestigious Museum in Los Angeles was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Wednesday to practice the same profession in New York.

Angel Ortiz, 44, was arrested three times in March for spray-painting "Laroc" - his tag - on walls and buildings in downtown Manhattan.

He was sent to Rikers Island prison, on the third and therefore missed his chance to attend the opening of this month of "Art in the Streets," an exhibition of art graffiti and street at the Contemporary Art Museum of Los Angeleswhich includes works by Ortiz.

"I went out walking my dog, I brought a can with me - I should have done, I knew sooner or later I would have caught", he said a police officer, as he was arrested the third timeWill can in hand, according to a complaint filed to the Court by the Office of the Attorney of District of Manhattan.

Ortiz pleaded guilty Wednesday to charge high against him - to fourth-degree criminal mischief - and was sentenced to 45 days in prison, including the months already served.

"He was going on a tear I've not seen done for years", Heidi Follin, who represents Ortiz through his gallery, in New York said in a telephone interview after the hearing.

She said that it had been affected by the death of his wife in January from disease.

"It is so bad-graffiti right now that I think just, he came out and showed their which a king,"she said."".

Work of canvas of Ortiz, that passes under the name of the II, selling thousands of dollars, says Follin.

His reputation as a pioneer of the art of the street earned him inclusion in the MOCA exhibition, which was described by Jeffrey Deitch, Director of the Museum, as "the first exhibition of positioning the work of the most influential artists to emerge from the street culture in the context of the history of contemporary art".

It includes works by some of the best-known proponents of the form, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, with which Ortiz worked in the 1980s. MOCA does not return calls seeking comment Monday.

Los Angeles Police have said they feared that the exhibition could encourage an increase in graffiti in the neighbourhood of the Museum. Jason Williams, another author of graffiti in the exhibition, which is the name of virtue, was sentenced to 180 days in jail for violating the terms of his probation following a previous conviction of vandalism, according to media reports.