At least nine exhibitions on the Dutch artist are in the works at museums around the world.
Tag: Museums
Russia Dispatch: Turgenev Dissed Russia but Is Still Lionized as Literary Star by Touchy Kremlin
The Russian government celebrates the writer Ivan Turgenev even though it scorns many of his negative views of his homeland and his embrace of Western, liberal values.
Jury in Belgium Convicts Man in Jewish Museum Attack
A French citizen was convicted of “terrorist murder” for fatally shooting four people after returning from Syria in 2014.
At War: This Is What Happens When You Call in a Bomb Squad for Centuries-Old Hand Grenades
The Revolutionary War-era grenade cores had been salvaged from a shipwreck and were sitting in boxes in a museum’s storeroom.
‘We Were Friends, and Then We Started Killing Each Other.’ India Recalls Partition. Carefully.
A museum dedicated to the division of India and birth of Pakistan documents a bloody era that, however distant, is still capable of arousing passions.
The Forbidden City Offers a Rare Nighttime Glimpse of China’s Imperial Past
The Beijing palace and temple complex opened its doors to the public at night for the first time since 1925, giving visitors the chance to see it bathed in electric light.
Russia Dispatch: A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader
Boris Yeltsin is widely held responsible in Russia for destroying the Soviet Union. A new museum seeks to counter that image — and subtly rebuke President Vladimir V. Putin.
A German Bratwurst Museum Unwittingly Starts a Holocaust Controversy
The lighthearted museum stumbled into the darkest of topics, learning that the proposed site of its new home was once part of a concentration camp.
Critic’s Pick: An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver
An exquisite show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art recalls travel before digital maps, when photography was the hottest of new media.
The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York
With “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.,” the Museum of Jewish Heritage will devote much of its building to artifacts from that Nazi death camp.