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At SFMOMA, Disability Artwork Makes History

In 1974, Florence Ludins-Katz and Elias Katz — she an artist, he a psychologist — turned the garage of their…

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The National Urban League Comes Home

The civil rights organization will anchor a sprawling mixed-use development in Harlem that will include a new museum focused on…

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They Used to Award Olympic Medals for Art?

During all of the years that the Olympics gave out medals in arts, not just athletics — and if you…

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Exploring Atomic Bomb History Beyond Los Alamos

The Atomic Museum in Las Vegas explains to visitors that Nevada and other states also played a role — for…

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

Though the academic scene continues to imbue this coastal Connecticut city with a certain gravitas, surrounding neighborhoods are showing off…

World

This Japanese Museum Actually Keeps Time

The Timepiece Museum has about 120 clocks of all shapes and sizes on display, out of a total of about…

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Faith Ringgold Dies at 93; Wove Black Life Into Quilts and Children’s Books

A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of…

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The O.J. Simpson White Bronco Is Now a Museum Piece. In Tennessee.

The vehicle that Simpson fled in as 95 million Americans watched on television is on display at the Alcatraz East…

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The Gang That Preyed on America’s Small Museums

No one mistook them for cat burglars, but authorities say the crew spent two decades pilfering, and in some cases…

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Her Art Is at Odds With Museums, and Museums Can’t Get Enough

Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now — with melting Antarctic ice — climate change.

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