Art museums
Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press Jun. 28, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Quad-City Times. June 9, 2021. Editorial: It’s time to step up Unfortunately, the people of Davenport have become...

A museum employee poses for photographers next to Roman era gladiatorial helmets and a shield, during a media preview for the "Nero: the man behind the myth" exhibition, at the British Museum in London, Monday, May 24, 2021. The exhibition, which open to visitors on May 27 and runs until October 24, explores the true story of Rome's fifth emperor informed by new research and archaeological evidence from the time. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Bad reputation: British Museum takes new look at Rome's Nero

By Jill Lawless May. 24, 2021 12:29 PM EDT

Visitors peek into the museum at the 9/11 Museum & Memorial, Thursday, April 29, 2021, in New York. In recent weeks, tourism indicators for New York City like hotel occupancy and museum attendance that had fallen off a pandemic cliff have ticked up slightly. It's a welcome sight for a city where the industry has been decimated by the impact of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Signs of optimism as NYC sees rise in tourism, bit by bit

By Deepti Hajela May. 11, 2021 07:49 AM EDT

This combination of photos shows actor Timothée Chalamet, from left, singer Billie Eilish, poet Amanda Gorman, and tennis star Naomi Osaka who will co-chair the Met Gala on September 13. (AP Photo)
Eilish, Chalamet, Gorman and Osaka headline fall Met Gala

By Jocelyn Noveck May. 03, 2021 09:58 AM EDT

Workers at Massachusetts museum vote to join a union

Apr. 29, 2021 08:57 AM EDT
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — Workers at a Massachusetts museum have voted to join a union. Employees at the Massachusetts Museum of...

FILE - Lady Gaga attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala on May 6, 2019, in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual high-wattage celebration of both fashion and celebrity -- held virtually in 2020 because of the pandemic -- will return in person, first in September, then again on its usual date on the first Monday in May. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning — twice

By Jocelyn Noveck Apr. 12, 2021 09:03 AM EDT

Program to explore how different cultures deal with grief

Mar. 19, 2021 09:56 AM EDT
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan State University’s Science Gallery Detroit and the MSU Broad Art Museum will host an international, virtual conference on grief and how...

CORRECTS DAY OF CONCERT - FILE - Patti Smith attends a special screening of "Pavarotti" at the iPic Theater in New York on May 28, 2019. Smith performed a mini-concert at the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday, March 9, to honor photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and also adding her voice to a series of pop-up events that represent the city’s first baby steps toward the return of live indoor performances. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Patti Smith returns to singing live with Brooklyn concert

By Mark Kennedy Mar. 09, 2021 04:47 PM EST

Visitors wait for the opening of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. More than 100 Andy Warhol originals have been hanging on the walls of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig since mid-December with nobody to view them after coronavirus restrictions shut down galleries across the country. That changed on Tuesday as the doors were opened to limited numbers of guests, after authorities eased restrictions to allow some museums, galleries and certain other cultural venues to begin receiving visitors again. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)
German museums tentatively reopen as virus restrictions ease

By Daniel Niemann And David Rising Mar. 09, 2021 10:13 AM EST

The sculpture The Victory of Samothrace is seen in a deserted Louvre museum, in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. It's uncertain when the Louvre will reopen, after being closed on Oct. 30 in line with the French government's virus containment measures. But those lucky enough to get in benefit from a rarified private look of collections covering 9,000 years of human history -- with plenty of space to breathe. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
With no crowds, Louvre gets rare chance to refurbish

By Thomas Adamson And Alex Turnbull Feb. 20, 2021 02:32 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 31, 2011 file photo, people stand in the garden of the Rodin museum in Paris. There is a ray of light for Parisians who, like the rest of the French nation this weekend, begin to observe a tightened coronavirus curfew. The famous Rodin Museum sculpture garden reopened to visitors on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Though the rococo museum, showcasing the world’s largest collection of Rodin sculptures, remains closed, visitors are now able to enter the sculpture-filled surrounding gardens that overlooked the gold dome of Les Invalides monument. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
Rodin Museum sculpture garden reopens to public

Jan. 17, 2021 11:35 AM EST

Visitors admire the marble sculpture "The Piety", made in 1499 by Italian sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Like elsewhere in Europe, museums and art galleries in Italy were closed this fall to contain the spread of COVID-19, meaning art lovers must rely on virtual tours to catch a glimpse of the treasures held by famous institutions such as the Uffizi in Florence and the Vatican Museums in Rome. However, some exquisite gems of Italy's cultural heritage remain on display in real life inside the country's churches, some of which have collections of renaissance art and iconography that would be the envy of any museum. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
AP PHOTOS: Rome churches beckon with art and no 'hordes'

By Beatrice Larco Dec. 30, 2020 03:40 AM EST

Jed Leiber shows photos of his grandfather Saemy Rosenberg's life at home Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court

By Jessica Gresko Dec. 05, 2020 08:13 AM EST

La Tanya Autry, a curatorial fellow at The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, poses outside of the museum in Cleveland on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Museums are being called on to examine what's on their walls amid a national reckoning on racism. Among 18 major U.S. museums, 85% of artists featured are white, while 87% are men, according to a 2019 study conducted at Williams College. Autry helped start an initiative called Museums Are Not Neutral. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Museums face calls to better represent people of color

By Christine Fernando Nov. 06, 2020 10:09 AM EST

This image released by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shows a black dress by Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen, left, and a ball gown by American designer Charles James, part of The Costume Institute’s exhibition "About Time: Fashion and Duration," tracing 150 years of fashion. (Anna-Marie Kellen/Metropolitan Museum of Art via AP)
Sans gala or red carpet, a stylish fashion show at the Met

By Jocelyn Noveck Oct. 30, 2020 10:48 AM EDT

Israeli museum postpones plans to sell Islamic antiquities

By Joseph Krauss Oct. 26, 2020 11:47 AM EDT
JERUSALEM (AP) — A museum in Israel on Monday postponed its planned auction of dozens of rare Islamic antiquities after word of the sale sparked a public...

Currier Museum to get over $717K to expand veterans programs

Oct. 06, 2020 04:33 PM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Currier Museum of Art is getting over $717,000 to expand art therapy programs for veterans and their families affected during the...

Chicago museum to receive emergency grant during pandemic

Sep. 20, 2020 09:06 AM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has been named among 12 art museums nationwide to receive money through an emergency grant program...

Regulators cite 300 businesses; Museum of Fine Arts to open

By Steve Leblanc And Mark Pratt Sep. 09, 2020 12:21 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — Alcohol regulators in Massachusetts issued fines or warnings last week against 300 businesses for failing to enforce regulations meant to stop...

A man walks past a banner by artist Yoko Ono at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in New York. Ono's two banners on the front of the museum say "Dream Together." The museum will reopen to the public on Aug. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Face masks amid the art: New York City's museums to reopen

By Mark Kennedy Aug. 26, 2020 07:37 AM EDT