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News
The Ankylosaur’s Club-Tail Wasn’t Only Swinging at T. Rex
A dinosaur named for a demon dog in “Ghostbusters” had a sledgehammer attached to its rear. A new study found…
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Arts
Natural History Museum Names College Leader as New Chief
Sean M. Decatur, the president of Kenyon College and a biophysical chemist, will become the museum’s first Black leader when…
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Arts
For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.
The work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist, was long overlooked. She is belatedly gaining recognition as an old master,…
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Arts
For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.
The work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th century artist, was long overlooked. She is belatedly gaining recognition as an old…
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Arts
A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose.
PARIS — With its monumental Art Deco facade overlooking the Eiffel Tower, the Musée de l’Homme, or Museum of Mankind,…
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Arts
How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling.
LONDON — For Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of Vienna’s Leopold Museum, the last few weeks have been challenging. As climate…
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World
Thieves Steal Ancient Gold Coins in German Museum Heist
BERLIN — When museum staff arrived to work at the Celtic and Roman Museum in the little town of Manching…
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Arts
Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and…