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Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Names New Director

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the chief executive of Forever Balboa Park, will start this summer, after Nancy Yao’s withdrawal.

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At TEFAF Art Fair, Museums Make Up for Shrinking Private Sales

Curators are looking for old art that can resonate with a new audience at the venerable event in the Netherlands.

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With a New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Faces Its Past

The new institution in Amsterdam is the first to tell the full story of the persecution of Dutch Jews during…

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Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Focuses on Forgotten Figures

An inaugural digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible,” traces the paths of five notable women whose stories have been largely erased.

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A Fight to Preserve a Pristine Piece of Old New York

The director of the Merchant’s House Museum in the East Village, a rowhouse that is 192 years old, is worried…

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With ‘Gems’ From Black Collections, the Harlem Renaissance Reappears

How do you measure the United States in the 20th century without Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Armstrong and…

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5 Presidential Libraries That Offer Culture, History and ‘Labs of Democracy’

With museums, special exhibitions and unique events, presidential libraries across the country are designed as destinations for everyone — not…

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Stolen Jewels, Now on Display

For six months, a team at the British Museum has been working with police to recover hundreds of engraved gems…

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Following Yoko Ono’s Anarchic Instructions

A major retrospective at Tate Modern instructs visitors to draw their own shadows, shake hands through a canvas and imagine…

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5 Presidential Libraries That Offer Culture, History and ‘Labs of Democracy’

With museums, special exhibitions and unique events, presidential libraries across the country are designed as destinations for everyone — not…

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