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Ann Philbin, Who Remade L.A.’s Hammer Museum, to Step Down
In nearly 25 years at the helm, Philbin helped transform the museum and elevate its reputation, and left a mark…
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British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts
The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…