Tag: Museums

Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules

The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said on Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items. “The halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when […]

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One Hope From Changes at This Holocaust Museum: Fewer Nazi Selfies

Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officer’s black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldn’t resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., has been redone as part of […]

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Institutions Are (Quietly) Taking Sackler Money

When arts organizations began shunning the Sackler family over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis, it wasn’t just American institutions that cut ties. Museums in Britain that had accepted Sackler largess were among the first to take action. After the National Portrait Gallery in London canceled a $1.3 million Sackler donation in 2019, the […]

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MoMA Sued by Artist Who Performed Nude in Marina Abramovic Work

A performance artist has sued the Museum of Modern Art, saying that officials neglected to take corrective action after several visitors groped him during a nude performance for the 2010 retrospective “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.” The allegations were submitted this week in New York Supreme Court, with the artist, John Bonafede, seeking compensation […]

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What I Felt When I Saw an Artefact Stolen From My People

Onias Landveld with the staff. Still from Jongsma en O’Neill’s documentary, courtesy of the interviewees. This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands. In January 2022, the Mauritiushuis museum in The Hague had a unique wooden staff on show. Topped by a carved figure of a woman with a small smiling mouth, the staff was likely […]

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After Fake Basquiats, Orlando Museum Faces ‘Severe Financial Crisis’

It was just days before Christmas, but Cathryn Mattson, the executive director of the Orlando Museum of Art, sounded anything but festive. During a specially called meeting, she addressed several trustees and influential donors, confronting the fallout from the institution’s last 18 months. “We are in a severe financial crisis,” she explained, according to a […]

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Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition

The first American retrospective of Samia Halaby, regarded as one of the most important living Palestinian artists, was abruptly canceled by officials at Indiana University in recent weeks. Dozens of her vibrant and abstract paintings were already at the school when Halaby, 87, said she received a call from the director of the university’s Eskenazi […]

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Vector W8 Drag Races Pilot-Production Dodge Viper RT/10

Vector W8 Drag Races Pilot-Production Dodge Viper RT/10 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> These two historically significant cars go head to head in a trio of drag races to see which is the fastest 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> These two American cars both capture the imagination but only one captured enough sales to […]

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Former Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt Toys With Running for Mayor of Florence

Schmidt is not a typical candidate of the right. In an interview with the Rome daily La Repubblica last month, Schmidt described himself as a moderate, a distinction that would appeal to centrist voters, insisting that he “was and remained antifascist” and “anti-Nazi.” Brothers of Italy, the party Schmidt would run for, was born from […]

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What’s in a Name? The Battle of Baby T. Rex and Nanotyrannus.

When fossil hunters unearthed the remains of a dinosaur from the hills of eastern Montana five years ago, they carried several key characteristics of a Tyrannosaurus rex: a pair of giant legs for walking, a much smaller pair of arms for slashing prey, and a long tail stretching behind it. But unlike a full-grown T. […]

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Famous N.Y.C. Buildings, but They’re Made of Gingerbread

Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at buildings and streets that smell as good as they look. We’ll also learn the secrets of an 18-foot evergreen in Central Park that’s not just a Christmas tree. The 20-plus entrants in a holiday contest became small-scale architects, structural engineers and construction workers, but they did not […]

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Tenement Museum to Feature a Black Family’s Apartment for the First Time

For the past 35 years, the Tenement Museum has told the stories of immigrants and migrants who lived in New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries to help visitors better understand the city through the lives of its working class. For the first time in its history, the museum will soon feature the […]

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He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic

For more than two years, home for Curt Bloch was a tiny crawl space below the rafters of a modest brick home in Enschede, a Dutch city near the German border. The attic had a single small window. He shared it with two other adults. During that time, Bloch, a German Jew, survived in the […]

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The Met Will Return 16 Ancient Treasures Tied to Looting

The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Friday that it had agreed to return 16 major Khmer era artworks to Cambodia and Thailand. The works are associated with Douglas A.J. Latchford, a Met donor and prolific dealer who was indicted as an illegal trafficker of ancient artifacts shortly before his death in 2020. In recent years, […]

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The Glory of Designs by Women (It’s About Time)

Last October, when it was announced that Sarah Burton was leaving Alexander McQueen, the house she had nurtured to new gorgeousness after the suicide of its founder, and would be replaced by an Irish designer named Seán McGirr, it set off a sort of tsunami of angst in the fashion world. See, it turned out […]

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I Wanna Be Curated: Can You Really Put Punk in a Museum?

Fat Mike likes to be on time — to “put the punk in punctual,” as he says. So he was mildly distressed to be a few minutes late meeting me at the new Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, of which he is a founder and the public face. I had pleasantly cooled my heels […]

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After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine

Hundreds of ancient artifacts from Crimea that were stored in a Dutch museum for nine years while Russia and Ukraine waged a legal battle over their ownership are now back in Ukraine, officials in Amsterdam said on Monday. The works arrived on Sunday at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine in Kyiv, said officials […]

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Did You Know BMW Made A Tiny Pickup At A Chrysler Plant In Greece?

Did You Know BMW Made A Tiny Pickup At A Chrysler Plant In Greece? | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The Farmobil is one of five unique BMW vehicles that caught our attention at BMW CCA’s motorcycle-themed exhibit 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> During our recent trip to Spartanburg, South Carolina, for BMW‘s Test Fest, […]

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The Met’s New European Galleries Feature 6 Must-See Paintings

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the super-prime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is open again. Up in the attic, the architects Beyer Blinder Belle have replaced 30,000 square feet of skylights for […]

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Guggenheim Selects New Director, First Woman to Lead Museum Group

At a time when cultural institutions all over the country are struggling to make a case for themselves in a digital world, and job descriptions for arts leaders have grown increasingly complex, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation on Monday announced that it had named Mariët Westermann director and chief executive of its museum […]

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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Visits Tolkien Exhibition in Rome

On the opening night of Rome’s most talked-about new exhibition this week, top government ministers in sharp suits hobnobbed with Roman socialites in fur coats, and eccentric art lovers rubbed shoulders with hard-right youth group members. They all contemplated a drawing of a glam-rock Gandalf in a form-fitting wizard’s cloak, acrylic armies of orcs and […]

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Resignations Roil Documenta Show as War in Gaza Polarizes Art World

Documenta, the German contemporary art exhibition considered one of the most prestigious in the world, fell into crisis this week after the entire team tasked with finding its next artistic director resigned after a series of disputes with administrators related to the Israel-Hamas War. The break up of the committee meant the start date for […]

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Downtowns Are Full of Empty Buildings. Universities Are Moving In.

On a conspicuous corner of Pennsylvania Avenue, in a once gaudy building that used to house the Newseum, the 10-story, $650 million Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center has just opened in Washington. I’ll say straight off: It’s not architecture for the ages, but it’s an interesting, high-end model of an urban quad and a good […]

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Es Devlin Imagines Worlds That Don’t Exist

Es Devlin is a British designer of memories and psychologies, ideas and dreams. She has created environments for operas, dance works and plays (her scenic design for “The Lehman Trilogy” won the Tony); designed concert tours for Beyoncé, U2, Kanye West, Adele and Miley Cyrus; worked on the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro […]

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Notre-Dame’s Treasures, Untouched by the Fire, On View in Paris

The newly renovated Notre-Dame isn’t scheduled to reopen to the public until Dec. 8, 2024, but some of the cathedral’s oldest treasures — survivors of revolutions, regime change and disasters — are now on display at the Louvre. And, although they had been inside the cathedral for centuries, the existence of some of these pieces […]

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Hungary Fires Museum Director in Crackdown on L.G.B.T.Q. Depictions

When a far-right member of Hungary’s Parliament invited the media three years ago to watch her shred a book of fairy tales that included a gay Cinderella, only one reporter showed up. But what began as lonely, crank campaign against “homosexual propaganda” by a fringe nationalist legislator, Dora Duro, has snowballed into a national movement […]

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The Next Costume Institute Fashion Blockbuster Is Revealed

After the pop culture bonanza of this summer’s “Barbie,” the hoo-ha surrounding the live action remake of “The Little Mermaid” and the attention paid to anything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, observers could be forgiven for hearing the title of the next Costume Institute blockbuster at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and think they were […]

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The Next Costume Institute Fashion Blockbuster Is Revealed

After the pop culture bonanza of this summer’s “Barbie,” the hoo-ha surrounding the live action remake of “The Little Mermaid” and the attention paid to anything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, observers could be forgiven for hearing the title of the next Costume Institute blockbuster at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and think they were […]

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