Obama Center’s Two Sides: A Lovely Park and a Forbidding Tower
In Chicago, the $850 million Obama Presidential Center aims to remake a neighborhood with a 19.3-acre community hub and a brooding 225-foot museum.
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Archaeology
Excavations casting light on stone age life | Letters
La Brea in Los Angeles is not the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world, writes Prof Martin K JonesYour article on the archaeology of La Brea Tar…
From bikinis to cat bowls: how museum gift stores became the place to shop
Curated edits mean people are treating museums as stand-alone shopping destinations rather than simply exit points First it came for bookshops. Then your favourite coffee shop. Now there is a…
Museums
The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art | Isabel Brooks
They often boast thousands of great works – but who needs that? I can only really engage with one or two before feeling exhaustedVisiting an art gallery always goes the…
British Museum Postpones Jewish Cultural Event, Citing Threat of Disruption
The cancellation comes amid a rise in racial and religious crimes in Britain as well as growing sense of unease for some of London’s Jews.
United States Politics and Government
Curating in the Cross Hairs: Is This the Smithsonian Chief’s Last Show?
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian secretary under pressure from the White House, organized an exhibit exploring America’s founding ideals.
British Museum
British Museum postpones Jewish culture month lecture over protest fears
Decision drew criticism from some commentators and free speech advocates as well as Tory leader, Kemi BadenochThe British Museum has postponed a lecture for Jewish culture month over concerns that…
Photography
Coke can hair rollers and Puerto Rican pride: the street photography of Janette Beckman – in pictures
Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). The exhibit Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette…
Art
Bringing Courbet’s ‘A Burial at Ornans’ Back to Life, While Visitors Watch
The Musée d’Orsay demystified art conservation by turning the meticulous, yearlong restoration of a 22-foot Gustave Courbet painting into a public event.
Leïla Slimani
‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on why literature is erotic
Now in residence at the Madrid Prado, the author talks about its dark, inspirational Goyas, the clandestine nature of her writing – and why she finally wrote about her jailed…
Architecture
Criminal review – homelessness show delivers a rage-making punch in the gut
Museum of Homelessness, LondonThis mostly al-fresco exhibition expertly unpicks how homeless and nomadic people have been persecuted over the centuriesA trim caravan sits in an idyllic garden in the grounds…
Jimi Hendrix
Food orders and phone bills: Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to go on display in London
Exclusive: Exhibition to include letters, work permits and dry cleaning tickets that reveal little moments of domesticity in rock icon’s lifeWhen Jimi Hendrix lived in a bohemian London flat in…
Smithsonian American Women's History Museum
Women’s Museum Bill Sinks Amid Dispute Over Trump and Trans Issues
The legislation to build a Smithsonian museum to honor women became contentious after it was amended to say the museum could only recognize “biological” females.
Musee d'Orsay
Who Owns These Artworks? Musée d’Orsay Hopes Visitors Can Help Find Out.
A new room in the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent display includes 13 pieces that were recovered from Germany and Austria after World War II and whose provenance is unknown.
El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego (Opera)
Isabel Leonard and Others Offer Tastings of ‘Frida y Diego’
The performers of a Met Opera production about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have been promoting the show in decidedly unoperatic places, including a cemetery.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Adds Back Impeachment Language to Label on Trump Portrait
The language had been removed from wall text in the National Portrait Gallery, but it’s back as the museum unveiled changes to its exhibition on U.S. presidents.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Will Expand by Merging With the Nearby Neue Galerie
Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of 20th-century Austrian and German art built by Ronald S. Lauder.
Art
Art for art’s sake, but for people’s health too | Letter
Jenny Waldman of Art Fund responds to a long read that said instrumentalisation is reducing the value of art as an end in itselfJulian Baggini (The long read, 14 April) is…
Museums
Guggenheim Museum Staff Ratifies Union Contract
The contract will provide an average salary increase of 11 percent, similar to what other museum workers across the country have obtained during the industry’s multiyear union push.