Museums
New York's Metropolitan Museum to open 7/7
Mar 21, 2013 17:20 EDT
For the first time in four decades New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will open seven days a week starting this July, the director announced Thursday.
Major hyperrealist painting show opens in Madrid
Mar 21, 2013 11:38 EDT
An exhibition of 50 paintings by hyperrealist artists whose works depict shop windows, camper vans, street views and other everyday scenes in such painstaking detail that they resemble photographs opens Friday in Madrid.
Remains of huge fossilized flying reptile displayed in Rio
Mar 20, 2013 20:06 EDT
The fossilized remains of a huge prehistoric flying reptile was unveiled Wednesday at the Rio de Janeiro National Museum where an international congress on the extinct species is to be held in May.
Famed French cave paintings on exhibit in Chicago
Mar 20, 2013 16:59 EDT
Stunning reproductions of the famed cave paintings of Lascaux are being displayed for the first time outside of France at an exhibit in Chicago opening on Wednesday.
Amazon's Bezos recovers Apollo 11 engines
Mar 20, 2013 16:22 EDT
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claimed success Wednesday in his mission to recover Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago.
Tens of thousands join British budget day strike
Mar 20, 2013 11:41 EDT
At least 95,000 civil servants went on strike in Britain on Wednesday, closing courts and museum galleries in a dispute over pay, pensions and working conditions timed to coincide with the government's annual budget.
London museum cancels gig over damage fears
Mar 20, 2013 09:25 EDT
London's prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum said Wednesday it had been forced to cancel a concert by "grind metal" band Napalm Death because of fears that the music will quite literally bring the house down.
Famed French cave paintings on exhibit in Chicago
Mar 19, 2013 22:21 EDT
Stunning reproductions of the famed cave paintings of Lascaux are being displayed for the first time outside of France at an exhibit in Chicago opening on Wednesday.
$3 tag sale find sells at Sotheby's for $2.23 million
Mar 19, 2013 18:53 EDT
A $3 tag sale buy has turned into a massive windfall for the lucky bargain hunter: the Chinese bowl sold for $2.23 million at an auction at Sotheby's on Tuesday.
Boston art thieves got away with it: US authorities
Mar 18, 2013 16:53 EDT
The FBI said Monday that they finally know who conducted a daring art heist in Boston exactly 23 years ago -- but the thieves can no longer be prosecuted.
From go-go to punk: Washington's underground edge
Mar 18, 2013 03:55 EDT
Forget what you think you know about America's stiff and stodgy capital city.
New Jewish museum in Poland unveils synagogue roof
Mar 13, 2013 14:33 EDT
It is not as ornate the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, but a life-sized replica of the polychrome ceiling of an 18th-century synagogue inspired awe as it was unveiled in the Polish capital.
Britain's Charles and Camilla in Qatar
Mar 13, 2013 14:21 EDT
Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived on Wednesday in the Gulf state of Qatar on a regional tour that has also seen the royal couple visit Jordan.
New Jewish museum in Poland unveils synagogue roof
Mar 12, 2013 22:52 EDT
It is not as ornate the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, but a life-sized replica of the polychrome ceiling of an 18th-century synagogue inspired awe as it was unveiled in the Polish capital.
'Lonesome George' tortoise goes to New York for embalming
Mar 12, 2013 15:57 EDT
The body of "Lonesome George," a giant Galapagos tortoise once believed to be the last of its kind, has been sent to New York to be embalmed and then returned home, the Galapagos National Park said Tuesday.
Smithsonian's got a golden ticket, courtesy Warner Bros
Mar 08, 2013 19:15 EST
Willy Wonka's golden ticket and Batman's mask are among some 30 movie costumes and props given Friday to the National Museum of American History in the US capital.
Spain museums adapt to survive budget cuts
Mar 08, 2013 16:13 EST
Spain's top museums are raising entry prices, opening for longer hours and sending works abroad in touring exhibitions in a scramble for new revenue to offset steep government cuts to their budgets.
German museum returns art looted by Nazis
Mar 05, 2013 09:24 EST
A German museum for the first time on Tuesday returned a painting despoiled by the Nazis to the estate of a late German Jewish art dealer.
Video games zap their way into top New York museum
Mar 02, 2013 13:10 EST
Pac-Man and other legends from the video game world became the latest and perhaps most unlikely additions to the Museum of Modern Art's illustrious collections in New York on Friday.
King Herod in spotlight at new Jerusalem exhibition
Feb 28, 2013 15:35 EST
An ambitious new exhibition at Jerusalem's Israel Museum sheds new light on the life and death of Herod the Great, the ancient king whose empire sought to straddle imperial Rome and a flourishing Jewish culture.
