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Academy Museum adds ‘Pulp Fiction’ script, Miyazaki art to film collection
Quentin Tarantino's handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction” is the stuff of moviemaking legendEntertainment - ABC News - October 31 -
Pep to lean on academy amid injury 'emergency'
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said he is willing to lean on the talent emerging from the club's academy with his squad hit by a number of injuries.Sports - ESPN - November 2 -
Conan O'Brien tapped to host the next Academy Awards
Emmy-winning late-night talk show host and podcaster Conan O'Brien will host the 97th Academy Awards, the organization behind the ceremony announced Friday.Top stories - NBC News - November 15 -
Conan O'Brien will host the 2025 Academy Awards
"America demanded it and now it's happening: Taco Bell's new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I'm hosting the Oscars," Conan O'Brien said.Top stories - CBS News - November 15 -
Follow Your Nose to the Next Museum Exhibit
Museums are adding scents as another tool for communicating information about science and other subjects in their exhibits.Science - The New York Times - November 3 -
Classy Casadó the real gem as Barça's academy stars humble Real Madrid
Marc Casadó has started just seven LaLiga games, but his performance showed maturity.Sports - ESPN - October 27 -
How Man City's remarkable academy keeps producing talent
Ahead of Man City's Carabao Cup clash vs. Tottenham, we take a closer look at their academy, how they prepare young players and manage their minutes.Sports - ESPN - October 30 -
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at the Royal Academy — sketches of freshly acquired mastery
Two London shows focus on the immediacy and endurance found in the drawings of the High Renaissance artistsBusiness - Financial Times - November 9 -
Zombies Are Real? A Museum Tries to Bury a Hollywood Myth.
The undead monsters we know from movies and TV are distortions of a figure with roots in the religious practices of Haiti.Top stories - The New York Times - October 31 -
British Museum given £1bn of Chinese ceramics
The donation includes 1,700 items which date back to the third century.Top stories - BBC News - November 13 -
Motion picture academy lays off staff at archive and library amid broader restructuring
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is restructuring its archive and library, cutting 16 staff members as part of a strategic effort to consolidate preservation efforts.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - October 31 -
Conan O'Brien to host 97th Academy Awards, marking his first time as Oscar emcee
Comedian Conan O'Brien will host the 97th Oscars on March 2, bringing his quirky humor and live TV experience to Hollywood's biggest night.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - November 15 -
A Connecticut Museum Shows How Ducks Have Helped the Planet
At the Bruce Museum, an exhibition of duck stamp art tells a 90-year-old story about how paintings can contribute to land preservation.Science - The New York Times - October 28 -
Review: Space-age art pulsates with the spirit of exploration at Palm Springs museum
PST Art exhibition explores aerospace's profound impact on Southern California artists and the extraterrestrial inspirations for their work.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - October 29 -
Germany's president visits the site of a Holocaust museum being built in Greece
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has visited the site of a Holocaust museum being built in Greece as he began a three-day state visitWorld - ABC News - October 29 -
Solange Knowles, Danny Meyer and Darren Walker Honor the Studio Museum in Harlem
Artists, business executives and museum leaders turned out for the annual benefit, which raised more than $3.7 million for the museum.Lifestyle - The New York Times - October 30 -
‘Majestic brightness’: Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art finds a new permanent home
After decades of nomadic existence, the Polish capital’s art temple is open for permanent business in an inspirational, light-filled new building. When Poland joined the European Union 20 years ...World - The Guardian - October 30 -
‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers
Set up to conserve traditional seeds, the Genetic Resources Research Institute is now helping smallholders diversify with crops resilient to the rapid changes in climate. On a winding road in the ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
'Give us back our gods': Inside Nepal's Museum of Stolen Art
Hundreds of artefacts were looted from Nepal as it opened up from the 1960s to the 1980s.Top stories - BBC News - November 4 -
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-PacificEntertainment - ABC News - November 13 -
Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum returns artifacts to Chile's remote Easter Island
Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Norway to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island in the mid-PacificWorld - ABC News - November 13 -
Jay Leno's look inside one of the top car collection museums in the U.S.
The Petersen Automotive Museum hosts a collection of more than 400 classics, including Hollywood legend Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar, now worth more than $30 million.Top stories - CBS News - November 13 -
The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.Top stories - The New York Times - November 13 -
Gulag History Museum in Moscow temporarily closed ‘for safety reasons’
Kremlin critics fear move is part of Russia’s efforts to whitewash Soviet past and shut independent cultural institutions. Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum announced its surprise ...World - The Guardian - November 14 -
Colorado State, Wyoming art museums wager significant pieces on 'Border War'
The Rams and Cowboys will have a little extra on the line this FridaySports - CBS Sports - November 14 -
British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’
The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what might happen to the Parthenon MarblesBusiness - Financial Times - November 15 -
Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
A previously unknown musical work written by composer Frederic Chopin appears to have been found in a library in New York CityEntertainment - ABC News - 2 days ago -
Majority back British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade
New poll finds 53% of Britons support permanent exhibition on Britain’s role in slave trade at British Museum. The majority of people in the UK think the British Museum should have a permanent ...World - The Guardian - 3 days ago -
Europe Inc needs to scale up or risk becoming a museum
Helsinki shows how reinvigoration can work but co-ordinated help for entrepreneurs across the continent is neededBusiness - Financial Times - 2 days ago -
Armed gang steal jewels from French museum’s £6m ‘national treasure’
Thieves fired shots and took parts of 1904 work by goldsmith Joseph Chaumet from Hiéron Museum. Armed robbers snatched jewels worth millions from a work by the famed Parisian goldsmith Joseph ...World - The Guardian - Yesterday -
Lost Chopin waltz discovered in New York museum after almost 200 years
Hidden for nearly two centuries, a mysterious waltz believed to be written by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in a New York museum - could this be a lost masterpiece?Top stories - NBC News - October 29 -
‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum
Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residenceWorld - ABC News - November 2 -
‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum
Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residenceEntertainment - ABC News - November 2 -
Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open
Germany is among donors committing millions to the long-awaited project, to be completed in 2026, which will tell story of those who perished. Few places are more representative of the horrors that ...World - The Guardian - November 3 -
Calling Soto 'Mona Lisa of the museum,' Boras indicates client may try to top Ohtani's record $700M
Agent Scott Boras indicated Juan Soto may be seeking to top Shohei Ohtani’s record $700 million contract because he is three years younger than the Japanese two-way star was when he reached his ...Sports - ABC News - November 6 -
Cutting-edge labs, a rainforest gallery and guesthouse: Nigeria to open art museum for 21st century
With a campus-style layout inspired by ancient Benin City, the Museum of West African Art has the potential ‘to be amongst the best in the world for holding returning objects’. . Benin City in ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
Review: Is art history? Two L.A. museums offer answers, but only one is right
Should art museums be showing art history? Or cultural history, which isn't the same thing? Getty and LACMA exhibitions give different answers.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 2 days ago