Museums
Crowds return to the world's most famous art gallery amid heightened security. The Louvre in Paris was forced to close on Tuesday after workers staged a lightening one-day strike. Their complaint: gangs of pickpockets operating at the museum.Home to...
Walking onto the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art this morning for the press preview of “Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store,” which opens this Sunday and features two installations of the artist’s early work, we were struck by...
SINGAPORE – The wait is finally over. The National Art Gallery of Singapore has named Eugene Tan as director of the Gallery, which will open its doors in 2015.Once described by Singapore artist Ho Tzu Nyen as a “true soldier of contemporary art,” the...
It began 10 years ago while on a quest for French chandeliers. Instead, Dorothy McFerrin bought what she believed to be an Easter egg created by the famed Russian artisan Peter Carl Faberge."I thought, 'Oh my God, I have no light fixtures, but I have...
Life and death in the ill-fated Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum is at the heart of a new exhibition at the British Museum. For the first time in 40 years, more than 450 objects from the preserved cities are going on display in London,...
This Thursday, Adeline Hazan, mayor of the French city of Reims, will receive an exceptional donation of 663 works by Franco-Japanese artist Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita. According to AFP, the donation, which is estimated at €1.7 million ($2.2 million),...
A 58-foot male sperm whale skeleton is one of the many highlights of a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.It was found by a local tribe on New Zealand's shore before they gifted their discover to the Museum of New Zealand Te...
Opening this weekend, the V&A exhibition “David Bowie is” reveals a first-ever retrospective and new, up-close look at cultural icon whose work continues to influence music, fashion, film, and art. While not directly involved with the show,...
SHANGHAI — In a March 19 press release, the Guggenheim museum announced that it will establish a new curator of Chinese art, as well as commissioning several major works from artists born in greater China, with the support of the Robert H. N. Ho Family...
As a founding figure of photography's modernist traditions, Bill Brandt's unpredictable works from landscapes to nudes showcase his unique vision. His images of society in the 1930s and exploration of moon-lit London during the blackouts of the Second World...
