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6-year-olds wander from Pa. school to museum
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are investigating an impromptu field trip of sorts that occurred when two 6-year-old students wandered away from ...
LA museum to unveil artist's big rock work in June
A rockin' good time is planned next month when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art pulls the covers off artist Michael Heizer's latest creation — a ...
UK virtual orchestra puts you in conductor's stand
A London museum is putting the conductor's baton in visitors' hands, allowing guests to direct a virtual orchestra using three-dimensional motion ...
Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall
Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, ...
1,600 museums offer military families free tickets
More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in a program ...
9/11 families upset over ground zero museum delays
They were promised a place to mourn their loved ones, display their photographs and educate their children and the children of strangers about exactly ...
Wayne Newton sued over Las Vegas home museum plans
Plans to turn Wayne Newton's sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal ...
CA museum gets big gift to build shuttle exhibit
The California Science Center said it has raised nearly half of the $200 million needed to build a permanent exhibit for the space shuttle Endeavour.
Swift gives $4M to Country Hall of Fame expansion
Taylor Swift has taught a generation of kids to appreciate country music over the last five years. Now, she's donating $4 million to the Country Music ...
Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July
The Rodin (roh-DAN') Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations. The museum is home to the largest collection ...
Barnes Foundation opening in new Philly location
After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the museum-studded ...
Artifacts missing after burglary at NJ USGA Museum
The U.S. Amateur trophy is among the artifacts missing after a burglar broke into the U.S. Golf Association Museum in northern New Jersey.
In Egypt turmoil, thieves hunt pharaonic treasures
Taking advantage of Egypt's political upheaval, thieves have gone on a treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging, preying on the country's ancient ...
Curator of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum resigns
Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator ...
Dior exhibit traces 60 years of cinema
Going back to where it all began, a new exhibit in the childhood home of legendary designer Christian Dior in Normandy sheds new light on the house's ...
Agents swarm reputed mobster's home in Conn.
FBI agents on Thursday searched the property of a reputed Connecticut mobster suspected of having information about the 1990 robbery of a Boston ...
Van Gogh museum unveils new willow watercolor
A young Vincent van Gogh was so struck by a dead willow leaning "lonely and melancholy" over a pond near The Hague that he knew at once he had to ...
Dublin showcases earliest photos of baby-faced U2
In the beginning there was Bono. And what a baby face he had. Photographs documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of 1970s ...
Warhol 'Elvis' fetches $37M at NYC auction
Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at ...
Asia's superrich build their own art museums
Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the ...
Sales of Klein, Rothko works highlight NY auction
An iconic painting by French artist Yves Klein created with water, a blowtorch and two models has sold at a New York City auction for $36.4 million.
Performance artist unveils plan for NY art center
Performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to build a $15 million center in upstate New York devoted to the research and production of duration-based ...
Teen points out inaccurate map to NYC's Met museum
A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with ...
Maya exhibit in Philly seeks to dispel 2012 myths
If the world ends on Dec. 21, 2012 — as some believe the Maya predicted — that leaves plenty of opportunity to see a new exhibit that examines the ...
UK police: 6 arrested over Chinese art thefts
Police in Britain have made a total of six arrests in connection with the theft of valuable Chinese artifacts from two university museums, authorities ...