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Palestinians building museum to tell their story
Palestinians on Thursday began construction of the West Bank's largest museum devoted to their history, planning to tell diverse stories of ...
Objects from JFK assassination go on display in DC
Some never-before-seen artifacts from the minutes and hours following President John F. Kennedy's assassination are going on display in Washington.
Iraq national museum long way from public opening
In Iraq's national museum, home to some of the world's most precious artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia, a caption beside a skeleton simply reads in ...
Correction: Salinger letters story
In a story April 9 about a donation of J.D. Salinger letters made to the Morgan Library & Museum, The Associated Press erroneously reported to whom ...
Louvre workers walk off job over pickpockets
The Louvre was closed Wednesday after its workers walked off their jobs to protest what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the ...
NYC Met Museum gets renowned $1B Cubist collection
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a billion-dollar Cubist collection it says will "transform" it. The museum announced Tuesday ...
Salinger's letters to mentor donated to NYC museum
Letters written by J.D. Salinger to a spiritual mentor have been donated to a New York City museum. The Morgan Library & Museum, based in Manhattan, ...
David Geffen donates $25M for academy museum
Music and movie mogul David Geffen has kicked in $25 million for a film museum planned by Academy Awards overseers. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...
Museum exhibitions come to movie theaters
From the people who brought live Metropolitan Opera performances to a movie theater near you comes the next big-screen cultural attraction: museum art ...
Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot
The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the ...
Iowa museum says tortoise was never stolen
An African leopard tortoise thought to be stolen from an Iowa museum was actually trapped behind paneling in her enclosure, and a misguided employee ...
Riches of Dutch History Return to Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands, is finally set to reopen to the public, with Rembrandt van Rijn's masterpiece "The Night ...
Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return ...
Louvre gets new leader, a Greek antiquities expert
France's Louvre museum is getting a new director — the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some ...
John, Taupin honored by Songwriters Hall of Fame
Elton John and his longtime songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin, will be honored at this year's Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. John and ...
Historic Motown Steinway piano back in Detroit
An 1877 Steinway grand piano used by Motown greats during the label's 1960s heyday, and restored thanks to Paul McCartney, is back home in Detroit, ...
Confederate flag at old NC Capitol coming down
A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down ...
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 ...
The art of the nap: Tilda Swinton at MoMA
It's not the kind of performance that will win her another Academy Award, but Tilda Swinton certainly has them buzzing at the Museum of Modern Art.
NYC's Met Museum accused of duping on fees
Before visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art can stroll past the Picassos, Renoirs, Rembrandts and other priceless works, they must first deal ...
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 museum spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star ...
Saplings from Anne Frank's tree take root in US
Saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam are being ...
Iraq to revive cultural life to heal war wounds
Sewing machines buzz inside the Iraq Fashion House as dressmakers work late into the night behind concrete blast walls readying intricately ...
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 ...