3 Are Arrested in Theft of Gold Helmet From Dutch Museum
Three people have been arrested in connection with a brazen heist at a museum in the Netherlands over the weekend in which thieves stole ancient artifacts, including a prized golden…
Smithsonian Closes Diversity Office After Trump’s Executive Order
The Smithsonian Institution informed employees on Tuesday that it would close its diversity office, freeze hiring for all federal positions and require workers to return to in-person work in order…
At the Louvre, the Mona Lisa Will Get Her Own Room as Museum Expands
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…
66 Million-Year-Old Fossilized Vomit Is Found in Denmark
Let’s be candid here. Vomit is something you want to get rid of. You don’t want it hanging around for a day, or an hour, or even a few minutes.…
The Africa Center’s New Leader Focuses on Connection
The Africa Center in New York has named a new leader, Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat with a multidisciplinary background who embodies the wide spectrum of offerings the institution…
Thieves Blow Up a Dutch Museum Door to Steal a Golden Helmet
The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum — an art and history museum…
Trump Executive Order Prompts National Gallery to End Diversity Programs
Four years after it mounted a rebranding campaign that focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, the National Gallery of Art in Washington announced this week that it would end those…
Aaron De Groft, Museum Director Accused in Fake Basquiat Scheme, Dies at 59
Aaron De Groft, the former director of the Orlando Museum of Art, who came to national prominence in 2022 after paintings he was exhibiting as the lost work of Jean-Michel…
Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World
The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously…
With Their Lives Upended, They Practiced the Art of Resilience
She supported herself as an illustrator in New York City. Eventually she devoted herself full time to her art; her painting style became playful, almost childlike, incorporating pictographs, bright colors…