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Technology entrepreneur James H. Clark, creator of the once dominant Netscape browser, has surrendered 35 Southeast Asian antiquities from his…
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Art historian Christopher Wright has a track record of spotting unrecognized masterpieces from art history in other people’s collections. But…
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A year ago, before the smoke had fully cleared after a group of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building, curators and…
NASA is one step closer in its plan to take unprecedented images of the universe, and possibly discover new planets.…
In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests rocked the globe, four activists in Bristol, U.K., helped topple a statue…
Museums across the U.S. are once again grappling with whether to close their doors due to the pandemic—but the calculus…
Rome has put the kibosh on a plan to open a drive-through McDonald’s next to the Baths of Caracalla, a…
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