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New LA Museum Spotlights Hollywood Costumes, From Dracula Cape to Spider Woman Dress
Ahead of its opening, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is highlighting one major aspect of its holdings: costume design.
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How art created stereotypes of the Arab world
A new exhibition at the British Museum, reveals how a colonial art movement’s impact is still felt today, writes Sophia Smith-Galer.
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The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief
Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why.
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Lifting the lid on Japan's poo museum – in pictures
Japan’s culture of cute has embraced poo, which gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Visitors can play a poo-themed video game and pose on a variety of WCs. All the twisty ice-cream and cupcake shapes on display are artificial, and come in a variety of colours and sizes
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10 Surprising Facts about Books of Beasts from the European Middle Ages
Bestiary manuscripts of the Middle Ages reflect the beliefs and superstitions of the culture that created them.
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Emily Dickinson Museum Receives $22 Million Gift by Harriet Staff
The Emily Dickinson Museum, located in Amherst, MA, has received a $22 million gift as part of a larger bequest to Amherst College from the late alumnus, William McC. Vickery. "The transformative...
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Art Collections Coming to a Screen Near You
You can now find famous art collections, from museums and civic institutions, in living color on the web. Researcher Tara Calishain details what is happening with some of these and looks forward to more art coming to computer screens, at times enhanced so you see more than you would if you were viewing them inside the museum.
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Swept away: the art and artefacts destroyed by the world’s greatest museums
A sitar that once belonged to George Harrison was broken at the V&A – and this was far from the first time a gallery has had to make an awkward apology
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Reggae film archive to be established at National Library
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says a new digital Reggae Film Archive will be established at the National Library of Jamaica in an effort to preserve Jamaica's cultural heritage and reggae history on film.
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Around 2,000 Artifacts Have Been Saved From the Ruins of Brazil’s National Museum Fire
Early last September, a devastating inferno blazed through Brazil’s National Museum, destroying the 200-year-old building and reducing the majority of its more than 20-million artifact collection to ashes.
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The Metropolitan Museum Will Return Prized Gilded Coffin After Learning It Was Stolen
How did the Met not realize its prized 2017 acquisition was a looted object? "It was the perfect storm," explains one cultural heritage law expert who consulted on the case.
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American Civil War Museum sets grand opening date for May
The eagerly anticipated American Civil War Museum has set a grand opening date of Saturday, May 4.
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Arab Christians protest 'McJesus' sculpture in Israel
Hundreds of Arab Christians call for the removal of a crucified Ronald McDonald museum exhibit in Haifa city.
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Visiting the Whitney Plantation, Slavery Museum
Think of the worst thing you can possibly imagine that one human being might do to another and know that what really took place was a hundred times worse… By Matt Haughey.
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The art museum entirely dedicated to cats
Fluffy felines may have ruled the internet for years, but they have influenced the art world for centuries. Amsterdam’s KattenKabinet exclusively showcases the art inspired by cats.
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The Japanese museum of rocks that look like faces.
In Chichibu, Japan, there's an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It's called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces.
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Wikipedia seeks photos of 20 million artifacts lost in Brazilian museum fire
Wikipedia is fighting to preserve the memories of the 20 million artifacts lost in Sunday's Brazilian museum fire. The Museu Nacional in Rio -- one of the largest museums in the Americas -- was consumed by fire and irreplaceable objects like the oldest human fossil found in Brazil and a 5.5-ton meteorite found in 1784 are believed to have been lost.
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What Was Lost in Brazil’s Devastating Museum Fire
Two hundred years of work—and millions of priceless specimens—have been destroyed in a preventable tragedy.
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Brazil's Biggest Meteorite Survives Museum-Destroying Fire
After a catastrophic fire blazed through the National Museum of Brazil on Sunday (Sept. 2), destroying many of the institution's 20 million artifacts, the museum's meteorites were some of the few relics left standing.
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Fire ravages 200-year-old Brazil museum
One of Latin America's largest natural history museums, in Rio de Janeiro, is hit by a huge blaze.
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