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The Year the Leaf-Cutter Ants Took Manhattan
In January, the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium gained 500,000 tenants. It has taken them some time to…
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Dick Wolf, ‘Law & Order’ Creator, Gives 200 Artworks to the Met Museum
Wolf has promised works by Botticelli, the Gentileschis and van Gogh to the museum, which is also naming two galleries…
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World
Italy Picks Italians to Lead the Uffizi and Other Museums
The country’s nationalist government named new directors for some of its most important cultural institutions.
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World
In Search of Vintage Christmas Window Displays
The mechanically powered holiday scenes that once filled department-store windows in Canada are still humming. Here’s where to find them.
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World
The Whitney Goes Free on Friday Evenings and Second Sundays
With admission to some New York museums reaching $30, it wants to widen access.
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Italy Searches for Museum Leaders, With Nationalism in the Air
Last time the top jobs at some of the country’s most prestigious art institutions came up, many went to foreign…
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Style
I Wanna Be Curated: Can You Really Put Punk in a Museum?
Fat Mike likes to be on time — to “put the punk in punctual,” as he says. So he was…
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World
After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine
The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be…
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US
The de Young Open Dazzles
San Francisco’s flagship art museum is displaying hundreds of works by Bay Area artists through Jan. 7.
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World
Guggenheim Selects Director, First Woman to Lead the Museum Group
Mariët Westermann, vice chancellor of N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus, will come to New York to run the museum as it…