Exhibit of Jews in Germany raises interest, ire
"Are there still Jews in Germany?" ''Are the Jews a chosen people?" Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German ...
Pompeii exhibition brings doomed town to life
Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum wants it to be equally famous ...
Tilda Swinton takes an artful nap at US museum
It's not the kind of performance that will win her another Academy Award, but British actress Tilda Swinton certainly has people buzzing at the Museum ...
Tilda Swinton performs art of sleeping in NYC
Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. A musem spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star ...
UK studies tourist bonds for 'high risk' countries
Want to see Big Ben? Better make sure you've got some cash on hand if you're visiting from a "high risk" country. British deputy leader Nick Clegg ...
Rome museum exhibit on Italy's history of energy
Italy must import nearly all the energy needed to keep cars rolling, factories humming and lights lit. Much of its postwar political policy has been ...
Museum to showcase contemporary Latin American art
Long a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week's opening of a museum built around one ...
5 free things in Amsterdam, from canals to parks
The Dutch capital has plenty to celebrate this year, most notably the April 13 reopening of the magnificent Rijksmuseum after 10 years of renovations ...
Show at London's V&A museum celebrates David Bowie
When did the modern era begin? With the Renaissance? With Elvis Presley? For a generation of music-loving Britons, it started on July 6, 1972, when ...
American gets back art taken by Nazis during WWII
Tom Selldorff was 6 years old when he saw his grandfather's prized art collection for the last time in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands.
Dublin tourists lead icy St. Patrick's Day parade
Never mind the fickle Irish weather. A chilly, damp Dublin celebrated St. Patrick's Day with artistic flair anyway Sunday as the focal point for a ...
Jewish museum in Poland unveils synagogue roof
A Jewish history museum in Warsaw has unveiled a reconstructed synagogue roof with an elaborately painted ceiling modeled on a 17th-century structure, ...
Cyrus the Great artifact shown in US for 1st time
A nearly 2,600-year-old clay cylinder described as the world's first human rights declaration is being shown for the first time in the United States.
Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before ...
Rock Hall of Fame to open Rolling Stones exhibit
The story of The Rolling Stones is so huge it takes more than two floors of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to tell. The U.S.-based museum ...
German police return smuggled artifacts to Kosovo
Seven artifacts dating as far back as 4,000 B.C. have been returned to Kosovo after German police stumbled on them in an unrelated raid, the country's ...
Putin's idea to house Jewish collections rejected
A U.S.-based Jewish group Thursday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion to house disputed historical collections of books and ...
5 free things to do in Dublin to keep travel cheap
Dublin isn't cheap. But the flat, compact Irish capital is exceptionally walkable, with a wide range of free attractions easily reached on foot from ...
Road trip, not roots trip, in the West of Ireland
Many visitors to Ireland make the trip in search of heritage, tracking down ancestors in obscure villages and wandering through ancient churches, ...
Snorkeling in wintry Iceland: Frigid but inspiring
The air above the Silfra rift was freezing and the water in it was only a couple degrees higher, just warm enough to be liquid. Going under was a ...
Putin: Archive could go to Jewish museum
Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that a vast collection of Jewish books and documents that is the focus of a dispute between Moscow and ...
Correction: France-Holocaust Theft story
In a Feb. 14 story about France giving back seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners during World War II, The Associated Press erroneously ...
DreamWorks partners on Russian theme parks
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. says it is licensing its characters to a developer of theme parks in Russia. The Regions Group of Companies plans to ...
Knut the polar bear becomes museum display
Adorable in life, still attracting admirers in death: Knut the polar bear's hide has been mounted on a polyurethane body and is going on display in ...
Syria official warns of trafficking in antiquities
A Syrian government official warned Wednesday of rampant trafficking in antiquities from his country and appealed for U.N. help in halting the illicit ...
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