Virginia’s reconstructed colonial capital, long criticized as presenting an idealized image of the American Revolution, brings its history into the 21st century.
Tag: Museums
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The Met Walks a Fine Line on Karl Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man.
“The Line of Beauty” focuses on dualities in the dazzling work of the legendary designer, but it is coy about the controversies.
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Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Century Life
The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects.
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Wonder and Awe In Natural History’s Stunning New Wing.
The stunning $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, designed like a canyon, is destined to become a colossal attraction.
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Taking Keith Haring Seriously
An in-depth show at the Broad museum in Los Angeles looks at the full arc of the graffiti artist’s career.