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Paris Is Packed in the Summer. Here Are Six Ways to Dodge the Droves.
European hot spots are buckling with record numbers of travelers this season. But even in a global travel darling like…
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Video Games at MoMA: Do They Belong There?
A call for one of the leading museums to firmly embrace game designers as artists.
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Egypt Spars With Dutch Museum Over Ancient History
A new exhibit in the Netherlands explores how Black musicians have drawn inspiration and pride from the idea that ancient Egypt…
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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’…