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The cuts are a sign of how exposed even our best-known cultural institutions have become.
Performance in museums can be one way that an interest in history, and in turn wider societal issues, is cultivated from a young age.
While many cultural leaders have applauded the move, others are more critical.
The V&A’s new Museum and Storehouse were built with the spirit that the museum was founded on in the mid 1800s.
As social divisions grow, museums provide forums for civic connection and discourse across political and cultural lines.
A trove of century-old belongings − from farm tools to pillowcases − tells the story of Filipinos who migrated to California to build a new life, a journey now honored in a Smithsonian exhibition.
The art market attracts money-laundering activities. How can it better protect itself?
Researchers, educators, young people and artists are collaborating to develop a ‘pedagogy of hope’ for creative climate change education.
Hundreds of meteorites fall to Earth each year. If you’re lucky enough to find one, here’s what to do.
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
Philly’s premier art museum drops a preposition, revives a griffin and introduces a cheeky new nickname that may make longtime patrons bristle.
With a recovery rate below 10%, most stolen works are never found. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to monetize.
The jewel theft in Paris was carried out using simple tools.
Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre’s security problems, rather than on the jewels themselves.
In his rollicking scientific true-crime book, The Butterfly Thief, Walter Marsh delves into the dark side of museum collection histories – and one bizarre heist.
Heritage is a public good and people should be able to engage with their past.
The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.
The presence of two portraits by German artist Otto Dix in Canadian museum collections is difficult to explain outside of the context of Nazi occupation and spoliation.
Engaging multiple senses transforms how students learn about art and develop creative confidence.
Top contributors
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professeur de Marketing, EDHEC Business School
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, University of Glasgow; University of Nigeria
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Lecturer in School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne