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Director Who Resigned From British Museum in Scandal Has a New Job

Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian, will be the director of a new museum of world cultures in Saudi Arabia.

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Lausanne, Where the Olympics Never End

A new arts district, stylish restaurants and a museum that pays homage to the Games greet visitors to this Swiss…

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San Francisco’s Arts Institutions Are Slowly Building Back

Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.

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Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors

One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be…

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Film Academy Chief Gets a Sequel: Bill Kramer’s Contract Is Renewed

Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.

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Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum.

The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s…

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The Brooklyn Museum Is Progressive. Why Is the Left Attacking It?

One of the city’s most consistently progressive institutions — which had long enraged conservatives — has become the object of…

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Anti-Zionist Graffiti Splashed on Homes of Brooklyn Museum Officials

The homes of the officials, who are Jewish, were vandalized with red paint, and a banner at the museum director’s…

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Amid Outcry, Academy Museum to Revise Exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish Roots

When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what…

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Sigmund Rolat, Who Used His Wealth to Memorialize Polish Jews, Dies at 93

A Holocaust survivor and a shipping financier, he returned to his home country, where his parents and brother perished, to…

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