Museums Exhibits - Page 28

December 13, 2022

Reagan Library in California will host Holocaust exhibit in new year: 'So emotional,' says survivor

A new exhibit about the Holocaust will open in March 2023 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. Two survivors recently shared the importance of remembering the atrocities.

December 8, 2022

Professor calls museums racist: Built to ‘justify’ empire, colonization marginalization

Professor Tukufu Zuberi suggested to “PBS Newshour’s” Jeffrey Brown on Wednesday that racial bias and prejudice are the foundations of museums everywhere.

December 7, 2022

UK government rules out law change for return of Parthenon marbles to Greece after 'secret' meetings

A spokesperson for Rishi Sunak told reporters that while the British Museum trustees are free to talk to whomever they want, the U.K. has no plans to change the law.

November 23, 2022

Celtic gold coins stolen from German museum in stunning heist

The circumstances of the nine-minute heist were straight out of a Hollywood movie; telecommunications cables were cut to avoid triggering the alarm.

November 15, 2022

Environmentalists in Vienna deface Gustav Klimt's 1915 'Death and Life' painting with 'black oily liquid'

Climate activists with the German group Last Generation defaced Gustav Klimt's "Death and Life" painting at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria.

November 14, 2022

Gen Z climate activist: Throwing paint, stopping traffic is privileged protest and unhelpful

Young eco-activists having defaced paintings and poured onto freeways for environmental justice are not tangibly improving the climate, conservationist says.

November 13, 2022

Gen Z climate activist: Throwing paint, stopping traffic is privileged protest and unhelpful

Young eco-activists having defaced paintings and poured onto freeways for environmental justice are not tangibly improving the climate, conservationist says.

October 14, 2022

Anti-oil environmentalists pour tomato soup on van Gogh 'Sunflowers' painting

A climate activist duo with the climate change group Just Stop Oil threw cans of tomato soup on a piece of artwork by Vincent van Gogh in a central London museum.

October 10, 2022

World's largest cast iron skillet ready for museum visitors in Tennessee

Lodge Cast Iron has opened up a museum in Tennessee, where the company says it has the world's largest cast iron skillet on display, which reportedly measures 18 feet across.

September 29, 2022

Stolen ‘Woman-Ochre’ painting, worth $100 million, returned to Arizona museum

A stolen painting by de Kooning was returned after it went missing for almost 40 years. Strangers returned the artwork to an Arizona museum after buying the item through an estate sale.