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Best Art Between the Covers of These Holiday Books

Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs…

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For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over

Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but…

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Indigenous Founders of a Museum Cafe Put Repatriation on the Menu

Two chefs celebrate the culture of the Ohlone people at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley, which is seeking…

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Best Art of 2022

This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art,…

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Natural History Museum Names College Leader as New Chief

Sean M. Decatur, the president of Kenyon College and a biophysical chemist, will become the museum’s first Black leader when…

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For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.

The work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist, was long overlooked. She is belatedly gaining recognition as an old master,…

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For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.

The work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th century artist, was long overlooked. She is belatedly gaining recognition as an old…

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A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose.

PARIS — With its monumental Art Deco facade overlooking the Eiffel Tower, the Musée de l’Homme, or Museum of Mankind,…

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How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling.

LONDON — For Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of Vienna’s Leopold Museum, the last few weeks have been challenging. As climate…

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Thieves Steal Ancient Gold Coins in German Museum Heist

BERLIN — When museum staff arrived to work at the Celtic and Roman Museum in the little town of Manching…

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