Mar 5th, 2010 · Lonnie Bunch, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been traveling the country — and the globe — and gathering new acquisitions for the museum, which is slated to open in Washington, DC in 2015. New pieces include Michael Jackson's fedora and a pair of middle passage shackles.
Mar 1st, 2010 · There's a showdown brewing in Texas: between the neighboring cities of Dallas and Fort Worth. They're not fighting over land, or water, or oil or gas rights; they're fighting for cultural supremacy. Who's got the best art museum? Who's bigger in the music world?
Feb 20th, 2010 · In his time, the Italian master outraged the Church and led a scandalous double life. Now Rome, the city where Caravaggio was both hailed and rejected, is marking the 400th anniversary of his death by hosting a major exhibit of his paintings from museums all over the world.
Feb 19th, 2010 · Before whales, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, giant filter-feeding fish swam the prehistoric seas. By going back and searching through museums for misunderstood or overlooked fossil specimens, a researcher found evidence that these fish swam the Earth for more than 100 million years — far longer than scientists had previously thought.
Jan 31st, 2010 · Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and asked to be served. Their action sparked a movement that helped lead to the integration of public places. Now the building that housed that lunch counter is a civil rights museum, opening Feb. 1.
Jan 30th, 2010 · We've asked Neil to play a game we're calling "Oops ... we can glue that back together, right?" Three questions in honor of the museum visitor who tripped and put her hand right through a priceless Picasso painting.
Jan 29th, 2010 · The heads of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art have made a Super Bowl wager: The IMA will loan William Trevor's The Fifth Plague of Egypt, to NOMA if the Colts lose the Super Bowl. If the Saints lose, NOMA will loan Claude Lorrain's Ideal View of Tivoli.
Jan 28th, 2010 · A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week stumbled into a Picasso painting, gashing it and denting the canvas. The museum says the piece will be repaired in time for an exhibition of the artist's works in April. The art world is asking: Will it ever be worth the same?