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Police remove extinction rebellion protesters from Rijksmuseum

NL Times

Nine Extinction Rebellion activists who remained inside the Rijksmuseum after a larger protest were removed by police around 6:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities confirmed. The activists had glued themselves together in the Hall of Honor near Rembrandt's The Night Watch to demand the museum cut ties with sponsor ING Bank, which they accuse of financing fossil fuels. By the museum's 5:00 …

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2 days, 15 hours ago

Extinction Rebellion to protest at Rijksmuseum over ING sponsorship

NL Times

Activists from Extinction Rebellion are planning another protest at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Saturday, demanding that the museum sever its sponsorship ties with ING. The group, which includes hundreds of participants, some of whom are children, has called ING a "major polluter" for its financial support of the fossil fuel industry. Extinction Rebellion has staged numerous protests in the …

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2 days, 20 hours ago

Work on Gangaikonda Cholapuram museum set to begin by Pongal

The Hindu

Work to construct the Gangaikondacholapuram museum near the Arulmigu Peruvudaiyar temple, a world heritage site in Ariyalur district, is set to begin by mid-January next year. The ₹22.10-crore museum would be constructed with joint efforts of the Public Works, Tourism, Culture, Religious Endowment and Archaeology departments. A large central display hall would display antiques unearthed from excavation sites in Maligaimedu …

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Tiruchi govt. museum offers certificate course for college students

The Hindu

Over 60 final year students from arts and science colleges in the city have done a certificate course on Museology at Tiruchi’s Government Museum since October to prepare for a career in the field. Recently, we conducted a workshop on palm leaf manuscript conservation,” P. Manimuthu, curator of the Government Museum in Tiruchi and Nagapattinam, told The Hindu on Friday. …

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China Daily

Resonance from the heart Moldovan artist Tudor Zbarnea has been exploring the history, tradition, culture and national character of his homeland, drawing inspiration from mythology and folk tales to illustrate aspects of humanity. The newly opened Zhoushan Art Museum adds to the city's cultural landscape, and pays tribute to its maritime history and spirit of embracing the challenge of life …

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4 days, 21 hours ago

The best of New York City’s tiny bizarre hidden museums

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery This image shows Mmuseumm 1, one of the smallest museums in New York At other small …

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5 days, 15 hours ago

New York homeowner’s yardwork reveals mastodon jaw

CNN

CNN — A complete mastodon jaw was unearthed in the backyard of a house in New York, according to the New York State Museum. The jaw, along with a piece of toe bone and a rib fragment, was excavated by teams from the New York State Museum and State University of New York Orange after a homeowner in Orange County, …

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6 days ago

Year Ender 2024: Must Visit Travel Destinations Around The Globe

ABP News

Discover the most amazing destinations all over the world from those top places where everyone's hype this year. Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands: The Anne Frank House is a museum dedicated to Anne Frank, the Jewish wartime diary writer. This museum provides added historical value through the secret annex where Anne and her family were sheltered during the years of …

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Bluegrass, Bourbon & Beyond: an expert guide to Kentucky

The Independent

While Kentucky may first bring to mind a particular global fried chicken brand, this sun-soaked state offers so much more than finger-lickin wings. There are a million reasons to take a holiday in Kentucky: it’s the birthplace of Bluegrass music, the horse-racing capital of the world, and proudly responsible for 95% of the world’s bourbon – and that’s barely scratching …

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The silent war going on inside a city at Nato’s eastern border – which could be Putin’s next target

The Independent

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At the centre of a controversy, the importance of Agartala’s Pushpavant palace

Hindustan Times

The state government’s move to convert the Pushpavant palace, a sprawling property built by the Tripura royal family in Agartala, to a luxury hotel has triggered protests by political parties and unease among historians. Tripura’s royal scion and TIPRA Motha party founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarma strongly opposed the decision and said that the palace was given to the government for …

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TarraWarra Museum of Art and Arts Project Australia celebrate 50 years of work by artists with intellectual disabilities

ABC

Lush ferns unfurl on a sky-blue wall. This mural is her first and forms part of TarraWarra Museum's exhibition called Intimate Imaginaries — a survey of 50 prolific years at Arts Project Australia, a Northcote-based studio that supports artists with intellectual disabilities. James McDonald is studio manager at APA, part of the team that makes sure the artists have "all …

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Guarding lacquerware's lustrous legacy

China Daily

Gan Erke, a master of Chinese lacquerware and inheritor of the Huizhou lacquerware decoration technique, a national-level intangible cultural heritage. It is the workshop of Gan Erke, a master of Chinese lacquerware and inheritor of the Huizhou lacquerware decoration technique — a national-level intangible cultural heritage. "Looking at these lacquerware pieces, we see not only the inheritance of China's traditions, …

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Third Jinan International Biennale unveils 'Age of Human Wisdom'

China Daily

The Third Jinan International Biennale opened on Dec 15, with exhibitions held at the Shandong Art Museum and the Jinan Art Museum. On Dec 15, the Third Jinan International Biennale launches at the Shandong Art Museum and the Jinan Art Museum. Jinan Art Museum, one of the main venues, emphasizes the city's cultural heritage through works inspired by local landmarks …

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Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’

CNN

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia, was created five years ago by artist Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of the museum’s founder and owner David Walsh. A tribunal in Tasmania’s capital city Hobart subsequently ruled that …

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Lorraine O’Grady, groundbreaking conceptual artist, dies at 90

LA Times

Lorraine O’Grady, pictured at a New York event in 2019, believed in taking “calculated risk” with her art. Though O’Grady didn’t turn to art until she was in her 40s, she was motivated by “the desire to produce work in service of her own ideas,” according to her website. “O’Grady has stated that art ‘is the primary discipline where an …

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Review: Velázquez’s Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena

LA Times

Philip IV was in trouble. Enter Mariana, the subject of an extraordinary, monumental full-length portrait painted by the Spanish genius Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, loaned by Madrid’s Prado Museum to Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum. A cascade of lace in loose white oil paint falls from Mariana’s left hand in Diego Velázquez’ portrait of young queen Mariana The dress …

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6 days, 20 hours ago

Museum member’s request for letters by Nehru triggers row

Hindustan Times

A letter from a member of the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asking for the return of correspondence by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was mentioned in Parliament on Monday, with Union culture minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat saying action could be taken on the matter. Museum member’s request for letters by Nehru triggers row …

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Historian Rizwan Kadri speaks to OpIndia about 'Nehru papers', appeals to Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi for access

Op India

Rizwan Kadri has made headlines for seeking the release of private letters of Jawaharlal Nehru with Edwina Mountbatten. In the minutes of the meeting, it was mentioned that the entire collection of Nehru papers was removed in 2008 at the behest of Sonia Gandhi. I had requested Sonia Gandhi in September to return the Nehru papers to PMML or allow …

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'Return Nehru's Letter To Lady Mountbatten': PM Museum Asks Rahul Gandhi; BJP Reacts

ABP News

Prime Minister's Museum and Library has requested Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to return the letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to Lady Mountbatten, Jayprakash Narayan, among others, allegedly withdrawn at Sonia Gandhi's orders in 2008. The PMML member further said a formal request was made to Sonia Gandhi in September this year regarding 51 …

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Sambit Patra slams Congress after PM Museum and Library demands return of Nehru documents

The Hindu

BJP MP Sambit Patra on Monday slammed the Congress after the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library Society asked the Congress to return documents of Jawaharlal Nehru that were withdrawn from the museum allegedly on Sonia Gandhi’s orders in 2008. Meanwhile, Rizwan Kadri, a member of the Prime Minister's Museum and Library Society has written a letter to the Lok Sabha …

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Fudan Art Institute celebrates its official opening

China Daily

Pan Gongkai, the first dean of the Fudan Art Institute, speaks at the official launch of the new institute. The Fudan Art Institute celebrated its official opening on Dec 8 and will focus on the study and research in interpreting and constructing the discourse system of traditional Chinese art, re-understanding and interpreting the cultural structure of Western modern art, and …

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In praise of theater for kids: L.A. arts and culture this week

LA Times

I have an admission to make: I recently cried during a matinee of “Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical” at Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Best bets: On our radar this week Diego Velázquez’s “Queen Mariana of Austria ” is on special loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. ‘Mariana: …

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Chandannagar’s famous French museum turns victim of neglect

The Hindu

The famous French museum in Chandannagar, located in what’s popularly known as Dupleix Palace, appears to have become a victim of neglect with the false ceiling in two of its halls crashing in the recent weeks, a narrow escape for visitors including foreigners. The building, formally known as Institut de Chandernagor, was where Joseph Francois Dupleix lived as the governor-general …

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Police remove extinction rebellion protesters from Rijksmuseum

Extinction Rebellion to protest at Rijksmuseum over ING sponsorship

Work on Gangaikonda Cholapuram museum set to begin by Pongal

Tiruchi govt. museum offers certificate course for college students

Chinadaily.com.cn

The best of New York City’s tiny bizarre hidden museums

New York homeowner’s yardwork reveals mastodon jaw

Year Ender 2024: Must Visit Travel Destinations Around The Globe

Bluegrass, Bourbon & Beyond: an expert guide to Kentucky

The silent war going on inside a city at Nato’s eastern border – which could be Putin’s next target

At the centre of a controversy, the importance of Agartala’s Pushpavant palace

TarraWarra Museum of Art and Arts Project Australia celebrate 50 years of work by artists with intellectual disabilities

Guarding lacquerware's lustrous legacy

Third Jinan International Biennale unveils 'Age of Human Wisdom'

Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’

Lorraine O’Grady, groundbreaking conceptual artist, dies at 90

Review: Velázquez’s Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena

Museum member’s request for letters by Nehru triggers row

Historian Rizwan Kadri speaks to OpIndia about 'Nehru papers', appeals to Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi for access

'Return Nehru's Letter To Lady Mountbatten': PM Museum Asks Rahul Gandhi; BJP Reacts

Sambit Patra slams Congress after PM Museum and Library demands return of Nehru documents

Fudan Art Institute celebrates its official opening

In praise of theater for kids: L.A. arts and culture this week

Chandannagar’s famous French museum turns victim of neglect