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Stone by Ancient Stone, Mexico Recovers Its Lost Treasures

Mesoamerican archaeologists know it as Monument 9: a 2,600-year-old carving in stone of a jaguar’s gaping face, roughly five feet…

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Ann Philbin, Who Remade L.A.’s Hammer Museum, to Step Down

In nearly 25 years at the helm, Philbin helped transform the museum and elevate its reputation, and left a mark…

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British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts

The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually…

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Restitution Is Moving Quickly. The Pergamon Museum Is Taking It Slow.

The Berlin institution with a spectacular, but disputed, centerpiece closes next week for a refurbishment that won’t be complete until…

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Facing Scrutiny, a Museum That Holds 12,000 Human Remains Changes Course

The American Museum of Natural History said it would address its collecting of remains, which stretched into the 1940s and…

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Is a Women’s Museum Still Relevant?

The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington reopens Oct. 21 after a renovation and the loss of…

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A Painting Stolen in Glasgow Returns More Than 30 Years Later

Thieves in Scotland made off with the painting “Children Wading” in 1989. The work was recently returned after showing up…

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Turmoil Engulfs Canadian Art Museums Seeking to Shed Colonial Past

One of the fiercest fights in the past year in Canada has taken place not in a hockey rink, but…

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Review: Scream Along With Pussy Riot

In the first major museum retrospective devoted to the Russian art provocateurs, they pump their fists and cause a fuss.…

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Crisis-Hit British Museum Names Interim Director

Mark Jones, a former leader of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is set to take over with a remit to…

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