Tag: Museums
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Scholars and MPs Call UK Museums ‘Unethical’ and ‘Sacrilegious’ for Holding Vast Collections of Human Remains
More than a quarter of a million human remains from around the world are currently held in UK museums, in what MPs and archaeologists are calling an uncomfortable legacy of the country’s colonial past. Not only this, but many of the items are reportedly being stored in ways that are disrespectful or even sacrilegious. An read more
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Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems
Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the read more
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Middle East museums brace for war; Whitney Biennial news
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good Morning! Museums across the Middle East are under threat amid bombing attacks. Seventy-five museum and biennial exhibitions to see this spring. Diya Vij has been selected to become commissioner of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The Headlines LINE OF FIRE.As the death read more
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What to See at Milan’s Best Museums and Galleries During the 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics are upon us, with the opening ceremony—featuring a performance by Mariah Carey!— taking place at Milan’s San Siro Stadium at 8 PM local time on Friday, February 6. Events will take place throughout northern Italy, with indoor ice events in Milan and outdoor events in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Livigno, Bormio, Predazzo, and read more
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Hirshhorn Museum and Art Bridges Team Up to Lend American Artworks to Museums Throughout the US
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has announced a new, large-scale partnership with the Art Bridges Foundation. The initiative, called 50 for 50, will bring key artworks by American artists from the Hirshhorn’s collection to smaller museums throughout the US’s 50 states and Puerto Rico. The loans will be long-term, lasting three read more
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Two Paris Museums Get More Than a Dozen Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, the organization that stewards the legacy of the iconic artist duo who wrapped large structures in fabric, has donated 14 artworks to two museums in Paris. The artists’ ties to the city are well documented. In 2021, a year after Christo’s death at 84, the artists’ 1962 plan to wrap read more
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Vienna to Temporarily Close Composer Museums Amid Culture Budget Cuts
Austria’s capital Vienna will temporarily close several museums dedicated to famous composers this year as part of city-wide budget cuts, officials announced on Wednesday. The closures affect sites including the apartment where Franz Schubert died, the residence of Johann Strauss, and Joseph Haydn’s former home. Schubert’s birthplace will also close for a redesign ahead of read more
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Qatar Museums, Not a Foreign Nation, Reportedly Tried to Acquire South African Pavilion Work
Yet more details have emerged surrounding the abrupt cancelation of Gabrielle Goliath‘s planned Venice Biennale pavilion for South Africa, with the Daily Maverick publishing a report about the allegations that a foreign nation tried to interfere in her exhibition. Gayton McKenzie, the South African culture minister, controversially said in a statement that he canceled Goliath’s read more
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New David Adjaye-Built Museums Beg the Question: What Happened to #MeToo?
Of all the political movements of the 2010s that failed to secure for themselves real power, perhaps the most devastating failure for me personally was that of #MeToo. I was in graduate school at the height of the movement, where I was being harassed by a professor and sharing my stories with others in the read more
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