Museum
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World
Director Who Resigned From British Museum in Scandal Has a New Job
Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian, will be the director of a new museum of world cultures in Saudi Arabia.
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World
Lausanne, Where the Olympics Never End
A new arts district, stylish restaurants and a museum that pays homage to the Games greet visitors to this Swiss city, home to the International Olympic Committee.
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Books
San Francisco’s Arts Institutions Are Slowly Building Back
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
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World
A New Home for the Story of the Boats That Shaped Canada
After a last-minute setback, the Canadian Canoe Museum has finally opened its new building in Ontario.
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Books
Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors
One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.
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News
Film Academy Chief Gets a Sequel: Bill Kramer’s Contract Is Renewed
Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.
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Books
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 career.
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Newyork
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 scorn by pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Newyork
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 building called her a “white supremacist” Zionist.
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Books
Amid Outcry, Academy Museum to Revise Exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish Roots
When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.