Architect I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid serves as the museum’s entrance since 1989.
TIME Magazine writes about the revival of the world’s most renowned museum under the reign of Henri Loyrette, its new director. Armed with a vision of the Louvre as a beacon of culture that is both accessible and global, he…
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Turkish novellist Orhan Pamuk (Photograph: Eamonn McCabe)
The Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk has canceled an exhibition of his “Museum of Innocence” at Frankfurt’s Kunsthalle Schirn. As the Frankfurter Rundschau’s Claus-Jürgen Göpfert reports, the exhibition was due to open on October 14, just in time for the city’s renowned international book fair,…
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During the course of this exhibition, poverty, natural disasters and war have all continued to create breeding grounds for cholera in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. On May 2 Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar creating the most recent outbreak.
The Associated Press: Conditions ripe for disease in Myanmar delta
World Health Organization:…
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The Iraqi National Museum has reclaimed 701 artefacts that were stolen during looting in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The news was covered by media from around the world:
Stolen treasures returned to Iraq’s museum (People’s Daily Online, 29 Apr 2008)
Treasures returned to Iraq museum (Kazinform, 28…
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Tel Aviv’s new Bauhaus Museum is located in the White City, a collection of 1930s-era International Style buildings designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003.
Tel Aviv’s “White City,” an unparalleled collection of 4,000 International Style buildings, now has a Bauhaus Museum to display Bauhaus-designed furnishings and related objects. The museum…
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The opening night of this year’s Art Dubai fair culminated in a sit-down dinner for 250 VIPs under a tent at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, hosted by Canvas magazine, a glossy local art publication. The invitation called for “lounge suit/national dress.” The smell of pungent flowers from the hotel’s garden mixed…
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