Photography Legend Steve McCurry Opens a New Show at Leica Gallery New York
Photographer Steve McCurry has an exhibition at Leica Gallery New York showcasing works from earlier in his career and a new body of work.
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From Paris to Hangzhou: The $9m Quest to Return China’s Lost Encyclopedia
For 140 years, part of the Yongle Encyclopedia sat unread in a Paris attic — a researcher’s keen eye and an entrepreneur’s deep pockets brought it back to China.
How Do You Authenticate a Work of Art? (3 Main Ways) | TheCollector
Art authentication is a complex process meant to verify and understand the origin of an artwork. The three main tools are connoisseurship, technical analysis, and provenance research.
Where did all the good sculptors go?
Episode 17 is about carving a new sculpture tradition.
Meet the Dutch art detective who tracks down stolen masterpieces
For 20 years, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand has acted as an intermediary between the police and people who know where stolen artwork might be hiding. He says patience and trust are everything.
Life on Display: A Reading List on Museums
A reading list on how museums reflect culture.
The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist
The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?
Museum of Color
From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.
North America’s First and Only da Vinci Museum is Coming to CO
Coming to Pueblo, CO, this fall, the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America will be the first and only museum of its kind in the continent.
Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist
After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.
What you learn about beauty and grief as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
After his brother’s death, Patrick Bringley took a job at the grandest place he could find.
The Best Little Museum You Never Visited in Paris
The Museum of Arts and Crafts is a trove of cunning inventions
14 Paris Museums Put 300,000 Works of Art Online: Download Classics by Mone
First trips to Paris all run the same risk: that of the museums consuming all of one's time in the city. What those new to Paris need is a museum-going strategy, not that one size will fit all.
Museum in a Box
A small, friendly device you put museum objects on to hear their stories... It's history that speaks for itself!
Download Coloring Pages From Over 100 Museums
We first shared this post in early 2019, long after the peak of the adult coloring fad . But desperate times call for desperate measures, and a globa