Museum
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Newyork
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 help build a museum and other memorials.
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Science
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 bones of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex.
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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 in the early 1940s.
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Newyork
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, “You think our Parthenon is better because the other one fell apart.” The winners of the news weekly’s long-running contest unfailingly ...
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Newyork
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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Books
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 wake of its failed, “fake” Basquiat show.
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Books
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.
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World
How to Navigate London’s Wondrous (and Very Big) V&A Museum
Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The Victoria and Albert Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s one besotted visitor’s plan for taking it all in.
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Books
Surrealism Reigns at Tefaf Art Fair
Objects made under the influence of the art movement have inspired many contemporary and modern dealers at the 10th edition of Tefaf New York.
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Science
Massive Fossil Donation Helps Brazil’s National Museum Rise From the Ashes
A gift from abroad of more than 1,100 Brazilian fossils aims to step up efforts to rebuild the country’s National Museum, which suffered major fire damage in 2018.