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  1. India Art fair 2018
    Commentary

    Commentary: When contemporary art becomes a tool of soft power competition

    The two rising powers in Asia, China and India, are using art as a means to win over investors and the global intelligentsia, says Associate ...
  2. FILE PHOTO: Tourists walk towards the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia
    World

    Shutdown sojourn - Free museums, music for furloughed US workers

    It may not put a meal on the table for furloughed federal employees, but some U.S. museums and symphonies are supplying food for the mind in free ...
  3. Belgium's Africa Museum is seen before its reopening to the public on December 9, 2018, in Ter
    World

    Belgium's Africa Museum reopens to confront its colonial demons

    Belgium's Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday after five years of renovations designed to modernise the museum from an exhibition of ...
  4. Minneapolis Division of the FBI image of a pair of ruby slippers featured in the classic 1939 film
    Lifestyle

    'Wizard of Oz,' Miyazaki to star in LA Motion Picture museum

    An immersive "Wizard of Oz" exhibit will greet visitors to the Motion Picture museum in Los Angeles when it opens after a long delay in late 2019, ...
  5. A sculpture is displayed during the reopening of Syria's National Museum of Damascus
    World

    Syria's national museum reopens doors in war-scarred Damascus

    Syria's National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced them to close ...
  6. People watch as a fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro
    World

    Skull of ancient human found in burned Brazilian museum

    The skull of Luzia, the oldest known human fossil in the Americas, was found by researchers combing through debris at Brazil's National Museum, ...
  7. The V & A musuem is seen in Dundee, Scotland
    Lifestyle

    Fire in the belly: Bold V&A museum transforms Scotland's Dundee

    An architectural gem on Scotland's northeastern coast in the angled shape of design museum V&A Dundee has sparked hopes of a new start for a ...
  8. A guard patrols the premises of the Byzantine Museum in Athens
    World

    Greece questions two women over dousing museum relics with oil

    Police in Greece are questioning two women suspected of squirting or dabbing oil on artefacts in at least two museums in a ritual the suspects ...
  9. FILE PHOTO: A bridge connecting the Russian mainland with the Crimean peninsula
    Lifestyle

    Kremlin plans to turn annexed Crimea into cultural capital

    Six masterpieces from Russia's top art galleries and museums will be moved to Crimea to be housed in a new cultural centre on the peninsula, ...
  10. Van Gogh painting
    Lifestyle

    There's a dead bug in the Van Gogh