Museum
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Arts
Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum.
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s…
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World
The Brooklyn Museum Is Progressive. Why Is the Left Attacking It?
One of the city’s most consistently progressive institutions — which had long enraged conservatives — has become the object of…
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World
Anti-Zionist Graffiti Splashed on Homes of Brooklyn Museum Officials
The homes of the officials, who are Jewish, were vandalized with red paint, and a banner at the museum director’s…
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Politics
Sigmund Rolat, Who Used His Wealth to Memorialize Polish Jews, Dies at 93
A Holocaust survivor and a shipping financier, he returned to his home country, where his parents and brother perished, to…
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Politics
Family Discovers Rare T. Rex Fossil in North Dakota
Two brothers, their father and a cousin were hiking in the North Dakota Badlands in 2022 when they found the…
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World
Cleveland Museum of Art to Return a Rare Ancient Icon to Libya
A 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, unearthed in the 1930s, is believed to have been stolen…
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Politics
A Tiny Museum Takes the High Road and Shows the Way Forward
When the Nashville Scene held its first annual “You Are So Nashville If” contest in 1989, the winning entry read,…
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World
The Whitney’s Then-and-Now Project Portrays a Changing City
The museum has paired its paintings of street scenes with photos of the same spots today.
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Arts
Orlando Museum of Art Gets a Gift With Strings and Tries to Cut Them
The museum has asked a Florida court to modify restrictions on a donor’s bequest amid a financial crisis in the…
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Arts
After Making Altars to Her Icons, an Artist Builds Her Own Legacy
A powerful and overdue exhibition at El Museo del Barrio links Amalia Mesa-Bains’s genre-defying installations for the first time.