Museum’s Benin Bronzes Are Reclaimed by Wealthy Collector
When it began displaying a group of finely crafted treasures from the Kingdom of Benin in 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acknowledged that British...
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‘Exhausted’ life models at Florence art academy threaten nude protest
Life models in Florence have pledged to take their fight for better working conditions to the courts—and have even threatened to strip off in public in...
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Art in Bloom history, schedule
Beth Smith | Special to The Herald-Mail Massive stegosaurus fossil that sold for $44.6M goes on public display Apex, a stegosaurus fossil, was lent to the...
How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring
Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official...
Museums Renovate to Enhance the Experience of Art Through Nature
The pandemic brought those complaints to a head. “We found ourselves to be one of the first cultural spaces in the tristate area to reopen because of our...
In Miami, Wynwood Walls Museum Evolves Along With Street Art
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. The real estate developer Tony Goldman...
In Baltimore, Confronting Chaos Through Contemporary Art
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. “What is your wildest dream for our...
Ahead of Romania’s re-run presidential election, its art scene remains vigilant
On 4 May, Romanians will be called to vote in a re-run presidential election, after the country’s constitutional court terminated the original election late...
Boston Public Art Triennial Hopes to Offer a New Image of the City
Based on a knockoff of an Indigenous totem pole produced for tourists that the artist chopped like firewood and cast in bronze, the stooped figurative piece...
Exhibition Review: “Van Gogh, The Roulin Family Portraits” at the MFA
Vincent van Gogh, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St....
