While negotiators press toward a deal to withdraw U.S. troops, the Taliban set off bombs that wrecked a museum, TV station and a school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Tag: Museums
World War II Planes Can Still Fly, but Who Will Keep Them Flying?
A number of organizations are now training young pilots and engaging students in the art of flying and repairing vintage aircraft.
He Couldn’t Talk About What He Saw in World War II. So He Painted It.
The aristocrat-turned-commando Guy de Montlaur was a hero of the French liberation. His paintings of D-Day depict scenes that haunted him his entire life.
In Iraq Museum, There Are Things ‘That Are Nowhere Else in the World’
The Iraq Museum has a majestic, world-class collection of ancient art dating back 5,000 years, but it struggles to connect with an audience of younger Iraqis.
Learning What Vets Could Not Tell: What They Did in World War II
Seventy-five years after D-Day, families of veterans who never spoke about the war are turning to professional researchers to piece their stories together from military records.
He Was Looking for Opals. Instead He Found a New Dinosaur Species.
Scientists reported the discovery in Australia of a plant-eating species, 35 years after a miner brought fossils to a museum in Sydney.
Seeing China Through Art, Not Politics
For those of us hungering for deeper insight into the the country, Sydney’s White Rabbit gallery provides a dizzying and confronting lesson in understanding.
New Statue of Liberty Museum Illuminates a Forgotten History
The museum, opening Thursday on Liberty Island, reminds visitors of the vague and often dubious ideal of “liberty for all.”
Missing Piece of Stonehenge Returned From Florida 60 Years After Removal
A worker had taken a section cut from one of the massive stones during restoration work in 1958, and held it in the United States for decades before returning it to England.
Investigators Recover Jewels Taken From Rome’s Etruscan Museum
Italy’s police art theft squad has recovered two dozen precious jewels. But investigators still wonder who was behind the audacious theft.