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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lifestyle

There's a dead bug in the Van Gogh
Asia

China museum removes photos comparing Africans to animals in racism row