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Dick Wolf, ‘Law & Order’ Creator, Gives 200 Artworks to the Met Museum

Wolf has promised works by Botticelli, the Gentileschis and van Gogh to the museum, which is also naming two galleries…

World

Italy Picks Italians to Lead the Uffizi and Other Museums

The country’s nationalist government named new directors for some of its most important cultural institutions.

World

In Search of Vintage Christmas Window Displays

The mechanically powered holiday scenes that once filled department-store windows in Canada are still humming. Here’s where to find them.

World

The Whitney Goes Free on Friday Evenings and Second Sundays

With admission to some New York museums reaching $30, it wants to widen access.

Arts

Italy Searches for Museum Leaders, With Nationalism in the Air

Last time the top jobs at some of the country’s most prestigious art institutions came up, many went to foreign…

Politics

I Wanna Be Curated: Can You Really Put Punk in a Museum?

Fat Mike likes to be on time — to “put the punk in punctual,” as he says. So he was…

World

After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine

The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be…

Travel

The de Young Open Dazzles

San Francisco’s flagship art museum is displaying hundreds of works by Bay Area artists through Jan. 7.

World

Guggenheim Selects Director, First Woman to Lead the Museum Group

Mariët Westermann, vice chancellor of N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus, will come to New York to run the museum as it…

World

Ukrainian ‘Artifacts’ Seized in Spain May Not Be Treasures, Experts Say

The Spanish police seized gold pieces believed to be Greco-Scythian artifacts, dating back centuries, and arrested the people selling them.…

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