Call it an embarrassment of riches: The musician Alicia Keys and her husband Kasseem Dean, the producer and D.J. known professionally as Swizz Beatz, have purchased such massive artworks that only a few could squeeze inside their homes in California, New York and New Jersey. Some colossal paintings by artists
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Museum World Hit by Cyberattack on Widely Used Software
Several prominent museums have been unable to display their collections online since a cyberattack hit a prominent technological service provider that helps hundreds of cultural organizations show their works digitally and manage internal documents. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York and the
Climate Museum Pops Up in SoHo, Capital of Buying Stuff
On a 60-degree Saturday in December — no longer unseasonably warm in Manhattan by today’s climate standards — hordes of holiday shoppers flooded the luxury shopping center that is SoHo. On a street lined with high-end stores like Chanel and Canada Goose stood a young woman handing out free coffee
This Silly Museum About Crabs Has Serious Things to Say
At the Crab Museum in the seaside town of Margate, England, Tereza Hynkova, 24, stopped in front of a display case, and started to giggle. Inside was a diorama featuring models of nine crustaceans, including a coconut crab, usually found on tropical islands; a decorator crab, which covers its body
Dick Wolf, ‘Law & Order’ Creator, Gives 200 Artworks to the Met Museum
Dick Wolf, the “Law & Order” creator, has made a promised gift of more than 200 works — paintings, sculptures and drawings among them — for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collections of Renaissance and Baroque art. He is also donating a substantial sum of money, the Met announced on
The idea of a national African American museum went back 100 years before its opening
The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Alan Karchmer/Smithsonian Insitution hide caption toggle caption Alan Karchmer/Smithsonian Insitution The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Alan Karchmer/Smithsonian Insitution The PBS program Antiques Roadshow sparked something in Dr. Lonnie Bunch III. The
Tenement Museum to Feature a Black Family’s Apartment for the First Time
For the past 35 years, the Tenement Museum has told the stories of immigrants and migrants who lived in New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries to help visitors better understand the city through the lives of its working class. For the first time in its history, the
Artist's work rises from the ashes of a kibbutz attacked by Hamas onto a museum wall
Rescued from her studio in Kibbutz Be’eri near Israel’s border with Gaza, artist Ziva Jelin’s damaged painting Curving Road is currently on special display in the Israeli Art gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Zohar Shemesh/The Israel Museum, Jerusalem hide caption toggle caption Zohar Shemesh/The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Rescued
Museum honoring LeBron James to open in NBA superstar's hometown: 'This is still so crazy to me'
In 2002, LeBron James graced the cover of Sports Illustrated and was dubbed “The Chosen One.” At the time, James was a junior at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, and was averaging 29.6 points, 8.3 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game. Now, more than
Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Faces Political Winds Before a Brick Is Laid
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino, slated to rise on the National Mall in Washington, is meant to give a prominent presence to the story of America’s largest minority group. But the institution has already been caught up in the broader partisan battles over American history, before a