LOS ANGELES (AP).- After complaints prompted him to cut a 4-minute video from an exhibition about gay contributions to art, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution became the target in a national censorship debate. Wayne Clough didn’t publicly def…
Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen Explores Possible Guggenheim Museum in Finland
HELSINKI.- On January 18, 2011, at a news conference held at the City Hall of Helsinki, Mayor Jussi Pajunen announced that the city has commissioned the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to conduct a study exploring the possibility of developing a Gugg…
Helsinki Mayor Jussi Pajunen Explores Possible Guggenheim Museum in Finland
HELSINKI.- On January 18, 2011, at a news conference held at the City Hall of Helsinki, Mayor Jussi Pajunen announced that the city has commissioned the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to conduct a study exploring the possibility of developing a Gugg…
Jewish Museum in Warsaw Now Half-Complete
WARSAW (AP).- Officials say construction of a major new Polish museum on the history of what was once Europe’s largest Jewish community is now half-finished. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a skeleton of concrete walls and white winding tub…
Two Ancient Statues Stolen in the 1980s From Italian Museums are Now Home
ROME (AP),- Two ancient statues stolen in the 1980s from Italian museums are now back home, thanks in part to a police art squad expert who spotted one of them in a New York gallery while window-shopping on vacation in the United States. The bronze sta…
Two Ancient Statues Stolen in the 1980s From Italian Museums are Now Home
ROME (AP),- Two ancient statues stolen in the 1980s from Italian museums are now back home, thanks in part to a police art squad expert who spotted one of them in a New York gallery while window-shopping on vacation in the United States. The bronze sta…
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Unveils New $504 Million Art of the Americas Wing
BOSTON (REUTERS).- When redecorating his home some years ago, financier Henry Kravis sold a painting by John Singer Sargent to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting — “Charles Stewart Sixth Marquess of Londonderry, Carrying the Great Sword o…
Armenian Archeologists: 5,900-Year-Old Skirt Found
YEREVAN (AP).- An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a skirt that could be 5,900-year-old. Pavel Avetisian, the head of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography in Yerevan, said a fragment of skirt made of reed was found du…