The Broad, the free contemporary art collection that has become one of the most popular museums in Los Angeles since it opened in 2015, is expanding, officials said on Wednesday. Building on its success, the Broad — housed in a striking white honeycomb structure on Grand Avenue across from Walt
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Met Museum Hires Its First Head of Provenance Research
As part of its more aggressive restitution investigation efforts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday announced that it had appointed a Sotheby’s executive to the newly created position of head of provenance research. Lucian Simmons will leave Sotheby’s, where he is vice chairman and worldwide head of the restitution
‘Tropical Modernism’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum
If you’ve spent a recent summer in Britain, where the mercury can now climb past 100 degrees, you’ve probably noticed how inhospitable the buildings are in hot weather. And good luck finding air conditioning, which only accelerates climate change, in any case. And yet the principles of “tropical modernism,” a
Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist
In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked off with an estimated $500 million in art treasures. Despite efforts by the local police, federal agents, amateur sleuths
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Names New Director
Second time’s the charm? A year after the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum in Washington named its founding director — only to have the candidate withdraw before her official start date — the museum is trying again. It has chosen Elizabeth C. Babcock, the president and chief executive of Forever
Wendy Ikemoto Brings an Indigenous Perspective to a New York Museum
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special report that coincides with global events in March celebrating the accomplishments of women. This conversation has been edited and condensed. The New-York Historical Society, the oldest museum in New York City, named Wendy Nalani E. Ikemoto as its chief curator
Museum of Chinese in America Names New Leader
The Museum of Chinese in America in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan has experienced protests and resignations, a fire and legal problems. Now, the board has chosen a new leader who wants to move the institution forward and reconnect with the local community. Michael Lee, a nonprofit executive, will be
With a New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Faces Its Past
Three faces stare blankly from sepia-toned passport photos, haphazardly pasted onto a card to an unknown recipient. They are probably two parents and their son, but we’ll never know for sure. Under their pictures are the handwritten words: “Don’t forget us!” It’s unclear when this card was sent. But its
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Focuses on Forgotten Figures
Everyone who carried a bag lunch to school has engaged with the work of Margaret E. Knight. A 19th-century American inventor, who developed a machine to automate the production of flat-bottomed paper bags, Knight had to file a lawsuit to receive the patent for her work after a male engineer
Julia Sinelnikova, Artist Featured in Museum of Sex Ad, Sues
The ads, showing Julia Sinelnikova, an artist, in mid-kiss with someone they were dating at the time, accompanied by text inviting visitors to “journey into the erotic carnival” at the Museum of Sex, started showing up last year all over New York, including in subway cars and on bus shelters.