Museum
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Books
Restitution Is Moving Quickly. The Pergamon Museum Is Taking It Slow.
The Berlin institution with a spectacular, but disputed, centerpiece closes next week for a refurbishment that won’t be complete until 2037.
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Books
Facing Scrutiny, a Museum That Holds 12,000 Human Remains Changes Course
The American Museum of Natural History said it would address its collecting of remains, which stretched into the 1940s and included practices now viewed as abusive and racist.
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Books
Is a Women’s Museum Still Relevant?
The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington reopens Oct. 21 after a renovation and the loss of its legendary leader. It faces a world that has changed its outlook significantly.
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World
A Painting Stolen in Glasgow Returns More Than 30 Years Later
Thieves in Scotland made off with the painting “Children Wading” in 1989. The work was recently returned after showing up at an auction house in northern England.
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World
Turmoil Engulfs Canadian Art Museums Seeking to Shed Colonial Past
One of the fiercest fights in the past year in Canada has taken place not in a hockey rink, but inside the stately facades of its national art museum. Directors of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa have come and gone. Senior curators have been ...
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Books
Review: Scream Along With Pussy Riot
In the first major museum retrospective devoted to the Russian art provocateurs, they pump their fists and cause a fuss. They want you to do the same.
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World
Crisis-Hit British Museum Names Interim Director
Mark Jones, a former leader of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is set to take over with a remit to restore confidence after a theft scandal.
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Books
For Some Culture Executives, a Housing Perk Is Rolled Back
For years the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed its directors in a $5 million apartment on Fifth Avenue, where they lived for free and paid no taxes on that benefit. The American Museum of Natural History’s president also lived for decades in a rent ...
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Newyork
The Met Keeps Releasing Clothing With Pacsun. Why?
The unlikely coupling of art museum and mall brand has yielded three apparel collections, with a fourth releasing this month.
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Science
A Museum of ‘Electrifying Frankness’ Weighs Dialing It Down
The Mütter Museum, a beloved 19th-century collection of medical curiosities and human remains in Philadelphia, wants to adopt a more “respectful” approach. Some fans won’t have it.