As a museum takes its first steps toward diversity after an insensitive job post, a nonprofit steps in to help the city heal its fraught relationship with Black artists.
Tag: Museums
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A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose.
Critics say the Museum of Mankind withholds information about its vast collection of human remains that could help former colonies and descendants of conquered peoples get them back.
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For Visits With Michelangelo’s David, She Brings a Duster
The revered statue in Italy is not going to dust itself. That’s where Eleonora Pucci comes in.
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How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling.
It’s not easy to stop a determined climate protester, museum directors say, even as they fear for their masterpieces.
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A Stolen 1527 Record Signed by Cortés Will Be Returned to Mexico
The receipt bearing the signature of the conquistador was taken some 30 years ago. It turned up at an auction in Massachusetts, and the F.B.I. stepped in.