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    A Strip cultural legacy

    Jan 25, 2021

    Strip titan Sheldon Adelson deserves credit for expanding our vision of what Strip entertainment could be

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    Arts & Life
    An aerial view of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with the Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle") in the foreground and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in the background.
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    Congress Approves 2 New Museums Honoring American Latinos, Women's History

    Dec 22, 2020
    The Smithsonian cannot build a new museum without federal legislation but both museums have bipartisan support. The law requires costs be covered by a 50/50 split between public and private dollars.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    The Annenberg Space for Photography closed permanently in June. In a survey of museum directors, 33% said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.
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    One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds

    Jul 22, 2020
    In a survey of more than 750 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.
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    World
    The Museum of the Bible is located near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The entrance is flanked by large bronze doors depicting the first lines of the Book of Genesis.
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    After 'Missteps' And Controversies, Museum Of The Bible Works To Clean Up Its Act

    Jun 23, 2020
    The museum has tightened its acquisition policies and is working to return potentially looted objects. Early acquisitions reflected a lack of expertise and lack of policy, its chief curator tells NPR.
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    World
    When Leonardo da Vinci arrived in France in 1516, he brought three of his own paintings with him — "Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" (left), "Saint John the Baptist" (right) and the Mona Lisa.
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    500 Years After Leonardo Da Vinci's Death, France Celebrates His Life And Work

    Nov 29, 2019
    A new exhibition at the Louvre includes Leonardo's sketches, drawings and 11 paintings. "You can really get into his brain and try to see how he thought," says biographer Serge Bramly.
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    Europe
    The Louvre was closed on Monday as security and reception staff went on strike over what they say are deteriorating working conditions as the museum draws record crowds. Here, visitors queue outside the Louvre in July 2015.
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    'The Louvre Is Suffocating': Museum Closed As Workers Strike, Citing Overcrowding

    May 28, 2019
    Staff at the Paris museum went on strike Monday, citing deteriorating conditions for tourists and staff amid record-setting attendance. It's unclear whether the galleries will re-open Wednesday.
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    World
    Wim Janssen, one of the musicians involved in the recording project, plays a viola made by master luthier Girolamo Amati in 1615.
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    An Italian Town Fell Silent So The Sounds Of A Stradivarius Could Be Preserved

    Feb 17, 2019
    The mayor of Cremona, Italy, blocked traffic during five weeks of recording and asked residents to please keep quiet so master musicians could play four instruments — note by note — for posterity.
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    World
    The long-delayed opening of the House of Fates Holocaust museum in Budapest, whose entrance is marked by a Star of David, is expected this spring.
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    Hungary's New Holocaust Museum Isn't Open Yet, But It's Already Causing Concern

    Feb 08, 2019
    The government-funded House of Fates, set to open this year, has been criticized by Holocaust survivors, scholars and others for presenting a distorted view of Hungary's role during the Holocaust.
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    The Newseum building in 2008, the year it moved into its Washington, D.C., home. On Friday, Johns Hopkins University announced that it is acquiring the building for $372.5 million.
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    Newseum's Imposing D.C. Home Bought By Johns Hopkins For $372.5 Million

    Jan 25, 2019
    The deal, which remains subject to regulatory approval, represents an ambitious expansion for the Baltimore-based university — and the end of a turbulent era for the journalism museum.
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    National
    If the current federal government shutdown, which began Dec. 22, continues past Jan. 1, all Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo will close, effective Jan. 2.
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    Smithsonian And National Zoo To Close After New Year's Day In Government Shutdown

    Dec 27, 2018
    "There's no getting around it," Linda St. Thomas, chief spokeswoman for the Smithsonian. About two-thirds of the institution's staff are federal employees and will be furloughed effective Jan. 2.
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    Latin America
    The morning after the fire, people gathered outside the museum to mourn its losses.
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    In Brazil's National Museum Fire, Officials Fear 'Incalculable' Loss Of Artifacts

    Sep 03, 2018
    The blaze started Sunday night, spreading through the 200-year-old building and engulfing some of its 20 million artifacts.
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    Shots - Health News
    Research on other museum-based programs like the National Gallery's <em>Just Us </em>has found that analyzing and discussing art in small groups reduces apathy among people with Alzheimer's, and reduces stress and isolation among their caregivers.
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    Family Caregivers Finally Get A Break — And Some Coaching

    Apr 27, 2018
    Across the U.S., community groups, hospitals and government agencies are stepping up to support the estimated 42 million stressed and strained family caregivers, who are often untrained and unpaid.
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    Europe
    Miss Perkins chastises a visiting student with a dunce cap.
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    A 'Ragged School' Gives U.K. Children A Taste Of Dickensian Destitution

    Apr 01, 2018
    The East End of London was once synonymous with Dickensian squalor. Now it's prime real estate. A tiny museum in the back streets shows schoolchildren what life was like in the past.
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    The Two-Way
    Huang Yong Ping's 1993 work <em>Theater of the World.</em>
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    Citing Threats, Guggenheim Pulls Three Works Involving Animals From Exhibition

    Sep 26, 2017
    An online petition demanding the museum remove the works garnered more than 600,000 signatures since it was posted five days ago, contending that three of them depict animal cruelty.
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    The Salt
    Adam Hashem from Hashem's Market and Roaster demonstrates the proper way to make traditional Turkish coffee.
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    In Michigan, Museum Food Tours Offer Tastes Of Arab Culture

    Aug 23, 2017
    Yalla! Eat walking tours take people into the Arab-American community, where they can talk with business owners about their personal stories and the products they sell.
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    The Two-Way
    The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., announced it would sell 40 works to fund its renovation and endowment, raising concerns from museum organizations that the instiution is treating its collection "as a disposable financial asset." Above, an exhib
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    Museum's Plan To Sell 40 Works Has Art World Up In Arms

    Jul 30, 2017
    The auction, including two Rockwell paintings, would fund the Berkshire Museum's renovation and increase its endowment. But two prominent museum organizations say the sale violates fundamental ethics.
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    All Tech Considered
    Museums only have so much wall space, which means the vast majority of their collections are sitting in storage. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a creative solution to the problem — the museum is texting its artwork to anyone who asks.
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    Tight On Wall Space, SFMOMA Will Text Its Art To You Instead

    Jul 18, 2017
    The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art can only display a fraction of its collection at any given time. Now, you can text a word or emoji and the museum will send back a corresponding work of art.
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    Arts & Life

    From Pez To Ticks, 'Atlas Obscura' Discovers 'Wonderfully Specific' Museums

    May 30, 2017
    People often become obsessed with collecting certain types of objects and then, before you know it, they have the basis for what writer Molly McBride Jacobson calls a "wonderfully specific museum."
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    13.7: Cosmos And Culture
    Henri Matisse, <em>Notre Dame, A Late Afternoon</em>, 1902; oil on paper mounted on canvas.
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    Museums Consider Ways To Engage Different People In The Same Art

    Apr 28, 2017
    As museum curators continue to search for ways to make art accessible to the viewing public — and to engage individual interests — blogger Alva Noë says turning to neuroscience is not the answer.
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    Parallels
    "This is the museum which tells the story of a war in terms of politics, ideology and civil population," says museum director Pawel Machcewicz.
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    Poland's New World War II Museum Just Opened, But Maybe Not For Long

    Apr 04, 2017
    The museum opened March 23 in Gdansk, where the war began. "This is the museum of a war, but not a military museum," says historian Pawel Machcewicz. The government wants something different.
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    Parallels
    Architect Mona El Hallak says the building was "demolished." But, she adds, "I looked, and I saw suddenly the sky, the blue sky, through this building. There was this amazing hope in this building."
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    In A Bullet-Riddled Mansion, A Beirut Architect Envisions A Museum Of Memory

    Mar 30, 2017
    Beirut is peaceful now, but political divisions still run deep — and people are still hesitant to look back on the civil war years of the 1970s and 1980s.
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    Parallels
    A recent exhibition highlighted the works of the Hungarian-born French photographer Brassaï.
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    At 40, Paris' Pompidou Center Is Still 'An Unexpected Trip'

    Feb 22, 2017
    The modern art museum, which opened on Jan. 31, 1977, holds a secure place in the heart of Paris — and in Parisians' hearts. But it wasn't always so. Horrified critics compared it to an oil refinery.
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    Shots - Health News
    Monica Bill Barnes (left) and Anna Bass are offering literally breathtaking tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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    Raise Your (He)art Rate With A Workout At The Met

    Feb 08, 2017
    Seeing a great work of art might quicken your pulse, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hoping you'll break a sweat, too. A dance company is offering literally breathtaking tours of the museum.
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    Parallels
    Incense burners covered in enamel, gold and diamonds are part of the 10,000-piece collection at Cairo's newly reopened Museum of Islamic Art.
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    Three Years After A Car Bomb Damaged It, Cairo's Islamic Art Museum Reopens

    Feb 05, 2017
    "We cried so much when we first saw it, because ... what you see standing here was all in pieces on the floor," says an Islamic art specialist. Museum staff repaired all but 10 of 179 damaged objects.
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    Parallels
    <em>Still life with Flowers, Gilt Goblet, Almonds, Dried Fruits, Sweets, Biscuits, Wine and a Pewter Flagon </em>was created by Clara Peeters in 1611.
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    In A First, Spain's Prado Museum Puts The Spotlight On A Female Artist

    Nov 30, 2016
    Clara Peeters, a 17th century Flemish painter, hid tiny self-portraits in her still life paintings. She wasn't a household name, then or now, and just 40 or so of her paintings have survived.
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