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I Wanna Be Curated: Can You Really Put Punk in a Museum?

Fat Mike likes to be on time — to “put the punk in punctual,” as he says. So he was…

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After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine

The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be…

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The de Young Open Dazzles

San Francisco’s flagship art museum is displaying hundreds of works by Bay Area artists through Jan. 7.

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Guggenheim Selects Director, First Woman to Lead the Museum Group

Mariët Westermann, vice chancellor of N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus, will come to New York to run the museum as it…

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Ukrainian ‘Artifacts’ Seized in Spain May Not Be Treasures, Experts Say

The Spanish police seized gold pieces believed to be Greco-Scythian artifacts, dating back centuries, and arrested the people selling them.…

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The Rock’s Wax Figure Will Get Redo, Museum Says

The Grévin Museum in Paris said it is “improving” a likeness of Dwayne Johnson that one online critic called “melanin…

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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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