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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 ...
APNewsBreak: Andy Griffith widow to raze his home
The widow of actor Andy Griffith has gotten a permit to tear down the house where he lived for many years on the North Carolina waterfront, upsetting ...
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 ...
Roth's 80th cause for Newark, NJ, celebration
"Sitting there in the park," Philip Roth wrote in "Goodbye Columbus, "I felt a deep knowledge of Newark, an attachment so rooted that it could not ...
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.
Experts: Chances of recovering Boston art good
Now that authorities believe they know who stole $500 million worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art heist in U
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, ...
Berry Gordy to be honored by Songwriters Hall
Berry Gordy will be honored at this year's Songwriters Hall of Fame gala. The organization announced Tuesday that the Motown founder will receive the ...
George Lucas proposes museum in San Francisco
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to build a museum dedicated to visual storytelling in San Francisco's Presidio that would house an art ...
Glaxo donates NC Wyeth painting to Philly museum
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has donated a painting with a mysterious past to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work by N.C. Wyeth was ...