Chicago Museum Director Under Investigation After Airplane Incident
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Chicago Museum Director Under Investigation After Airplane Incident

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines James Rondeau, the president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, has taken a voluntary leave from the museum after an incident on board a flight to Germany last month. During the incident, which occurred on April 18 and was first reported…

How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring
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How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official portraitist — with a champagne toast over lush arrangements of daffodils and yellow ranunculus. At the Museum of Modern…

Where Bruce Lee Practiced on the Roof, a Shrine to Old Hong Kong Rises
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Where Bruce Lee Practiced on the Roof, a Shrine to Old Hong Kong Rises

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, the Lung Wah Hotel, a converted, Spanish revival villa, offered a leafy refuge from the bustle of city life, near a cove and surrounded by parks in Hong Kong’s northern New Territories. Winding stairs, flanked…

Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology
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Taking Aim at Smithsonian, Trump Wades Into Race and Biology

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When President Trump issued an executive order claiming that the Smithsonian Institution had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” he singled out a sculpture exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. The exhibition, called “The Shape of Power:…

What to Know About Trump’s Order Taking Aim at the Smithsonian
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What to Know About Trump’s Order Taking Aim at the Smithsonian

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The president has no direct role in appointing regents. But in the executive order, Mr. Trump called for Mr. Vance to work with the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, both Republicans, “to seek the appointment of citizen members to…

Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome
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Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Some 430 years after the Lombard artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, swept into Rome to enchant, and land, well-placed patrons with his bold yet intimate artistry, Caravaggio is again grabbing the spotlight, with a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of…

Three Men Convicted of Playing a Role in Ring That Preyed on U.S. Museums
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Three Men Convicted of Playing a Role in Ring That Preyed on U.S. Museums

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For two decades, a crew from Lackawanna County in Pennsylvania traveled to a dozen small museums across the country, where its ringleader smashed through security systems to strip them of art and precious memorabilia. Their loot included treasured heirlooms from America’s past, including…

Mona Lisa Will Move to Her Own Room at the Louvre
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Mona Lisa Will Move to Her Own Room at the Louvre

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he unveiled sweeping plans to renovate the world’s biggest and most visited museum. Speaking in front of La…