11 Apr 2013

Cosmetics billionaire Leonard Lauder has given the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art an astonishing, collection of Cubist art that he assembled over four decades, the museum announced. The...

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21 Feb 2009

But for a chance conversation with a classmate during a summer course in Florence, Pola Antebi might never have found the path that led to her role as the Hong Kong-based head of the Chinese...

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14 Jan 2007

WHEN MARC WILSON, the director of Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum, recently delivered two 11th-century hand scrolls as a loan to Taipei's National Palace Museum for a new exhibition on the...

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3 Mar 1996

VINCENT Van Gogh and even the prolific Pablo Picasso might turn over in their graves if they knew what had become of their works.

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21 Jul 1994

FOR the curators at New York's Metropolitan Art Museum in the 1920s, William the turquoise hippo became something of an oracle.

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