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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

How Madrid's Prado Museum is trying to avoid becoming like the Metro at rush-hour'

Friday morning found Diego Velazquez striking the familiar pose he has held for the past 370 years, staring out, brush in one hand, palette in the other, from the huge canvas of Las Meninas. The 14 people who stood before the painting to meet the Spanish artist's haughty gaze not to mention the heavy eyes of the dozy mastiff in the picture's foreground were among the first visitors of the day to Madrid's Prado Museum.
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Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Simply insane': artists decry dismantling of Antwerp's oldest art gallery

Flanders plans to dismantle Antwerp's M HKA and transfer its 8,000-work collection to Ghent's SMAK, provoking artist protests and legal and cultural concerns.
Medicine
fromFortune
4 months ago

Philadelphia's famously spooky Mutter Museum redraws policies around displaying its 6,500 human remains

A Philadelphia medical museum restricts photography, limits acquiring remains, and seeks to de-anonymize and ethically display 6,500 human specimens.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

Trump vows to expand his review of U.S. museums. Can he do that?

The Trump administration is initiating audits of the Smithsonian and may expand federal scrutiny across American museums to remove perceived 'woke' influence.
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