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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 day ago

San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos

"You'll also find a primer for the exhibitions," Monetta White, the director and chief executive of MoAD, tells The Art Newspaper. "You'll find a framework, some vocabulary, some definitions of the themes." Meanwhile, she points out, much of the rest of the $500,000 renovation has gone into critical infrastructure improvements visitors will hardly notice, such as lighting upgrades and a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
5 days ago

Extravagant Munich museum dedicated to Symbolist Franz von Stuck to reopen after 13.5m renovation

In the decades before the First World War, Munich was celebrated for its so-called "painter princes"-a tiny group of top-tier artists who set themselves up in grand mansions, turning out wildly popular salon paintings, mythological scenes and portraits of other A-listers. The last of these great artist-aristocrats was Franz von Stuck, one of Europe's most important Symbolist painters, who was also a sculptor, an architect and a designer.
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fromTime Out New York
1 week ago

The Jewish Museum undergoes a major makeover, with brand-new galleries, a learning center and an installation of 130 Hanukkah la

The Jewish Museum reopens after a $14.5 million renovation with redesigned galleries, a 7,000-square-foot learning center, and a new light-focused installation bridging storytelling and education.
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fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums serve science on tap

Deutsches Museum in Munich undergoes major renovation while keeping many iconic large exhibits in place, offering interactive, multilingual displays and dioramas.
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fromArtforum
1 month ago

The Library at Closing Time

Wolfgang Tillmans's retrospective transforms the Centre Pompidou's public library into an intimate, site-specific portrait of the building amid its impending five-year closure.
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fromTime Out London
1 month ago

The Design Museum is getting a massive multimillion-pound makeover of its permanent galleries

Design Museum Kensington will expand and modernize its permanent collection gallery by 2029, funded partly by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to future-proof and increase visitors.
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fromArchDaily
4 months ago

Transparent Boundaries: Technology and the Display of Cultural Memory

The Met's renovation of the Rockefeller Wing enhances accessibility and modernizes the display of diverse artworks.
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