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The Art World Redefines Ownership
Seizures of looted art have made potential buyers and sellers of antiquities apprehensive, and even reluctant.
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James Harithas, Maverick Museum Director and Founder, Dies at 90
Whether directing august art museums or scrappy upstarts of his own, he championed art-world outsiders and socially conscious and political…
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Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too.
When plans for it first surfaced, I wondered if the new Gilder Center at the Natural History museum might end…
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Philadelphia Museum Creates Center for African Art
With a gift from the trustee Ira Brind, the center will aim to advance the museum’s new Equity Agenda.
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8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History
Over the years, many important African American landmarks have disappeared or fallen into disrepair. An effort to restore them promises…
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Being Edward Hopper
It’s no longer enough to like our favorite artists’ works. By putting on Hopper’s fedora, Picasso’s striped shirt, Warhol’s wig…
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A Curator Unbound: First She Was Fired. Then She Found Freedom
Helen Molesworth charts a new course with podcasts and a show at the International Center of Photography focusing on artists’…
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Executive Director of Museum of the Moving Image Exits After 12 Years
Carl Goodman, who has been at the museum for 34 years in total, will next serve as the president of…
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Baltimore Museum of Art Taps Its Chief Curator as Its Next Director
Asma Naeem, raised in Baltimore, will lead the city’s pre-eminent art museum as it faces unionization and equity efforts.
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$20 Million Worth of Looted Art Returns to Italy From the U.S.
The authorities of the two countries have worked together to round up statues, vases and bronzes, some of which had…