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In an extraordinary move, MFA to return prized African art to wealthy donor and close gallery
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to ...
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A Climate Activist Who Targeted a Degas Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art Is Found Guilty
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Last chance to see statue at Cleveland Museum of Art before it’s repatriated to Türkiye
CLEVELAND (WJW) — An ancient Greco-Roman statue that’s been one of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s most-prized pieces for decades will soon return to its home country of Türkiye — but it ...
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Building Americana — A Conversation with Hugh Hayden
Join Hayden in conversation with Dr. Muna Güvenç, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, and Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum ...
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Judge clears way for demolition of former children’s museum
The Portland Museum of Art wants to raze it to make way for a sweeping glass-and-timber expansion on that site, but Greater Portland Landmarks filed a lawsuit last year to save the building at 142 ...
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art hopes its expansion will create a 'path for the next generation'
Nelson-Atkins director and CEO Julián Zugazagoitia watches a two-minute video from one of the six architecture firms competing to reimagine the museum’s Midtown campus. The Nelson-Atkins Museum ...
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Iconic Frankoma Pottery showcased in OU art museum's exhibit 'For Those Who Like Nice Things'
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma is showcasing a vast collection of Frankoma Pottery, a beloved Oklahoma brand. The collection, a gift from architects Rodolfo Machado and ...
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With ‘Art and Design in the 1940s’, Philadelphia Museum of Art is exploring a decade of two halves
Marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War, a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s plays on the double meaning of the word “boom” as ...
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Trump and the Fate of the Government’s Massive Art Collection
Trump initially promised to donate the Art Deco artworks on the side of the former Bonwit Teller building he was demolishing to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There was a big lattice-work bronze ...
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MoMA’s Hunt for a New Director Ends With the Ascension of an Insider
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is promoting Christophe Cherix, the chief curator of its drawings and prints department. It will be his first time leading an institution. By Zachary Small and ...
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Olson Kundig to Design Seattle University Museum of Art
it included $25 million in seed money to begin a new art museum. A year later, those plans are coming into view. The university has selected award-winning architect Tom Kundig, principal/owner and ...