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God Bless America by Seward Johnson
Don't Forget the S.P.F. (And a Mask)

10 outdoor art spaces, parks, and landscapes that have reopened or are reopening soon

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Tumult in Turkey

Plan to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into mosque sows international division

Helsinki's Design Museum in Finland
Dreaming of Finland

Finland will use coronavirus stimulus to build a new architecture and design museum

a view of the Glenstone museum in maryland
En Plein Air

Outdoor art spaces that are now open for socially-distanced summer enjoyment

Inside of an art chapel, part of a museum that isn't reopening
Not So Fast

When are museums in the U.S. reopening?

old couple on bench, a lifelike sculpture by duane hanson, which could be affected by museum closures
In Brief

Thirteen percent of museums worldwide could shut forever due to coronavirus

Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Brief

Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen in August as other museums test the waters

bear diorama at the american museum of natural history
A Bite Out of the Big Apple

Cash-strapped New York cultural institutions continue to slash jobs, exhibition funding

indoor lawn at the national building museum
Farewell For Now

Longtime National Building Museum executive director Chase Rynd to retire

Photo of the The Musée Atelier Audemars Pigue, a spiraling mound of glass
Round and Round and Round...

BIG’s spiraling Audemars Piguet extension rises from the Swiss landscape

open parkland around old fuel tanks
In the Tank

OPEN Architecture transforms an abandoned Shanghai industrial site into a contemporary art park

the 1884 vincent van gogh painting The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring
Van gone

Thieves snatch Van Gogh painting from Dutch museum shuttered during COVID-19 outbreak

an empty museum gallery, closed because of coronavirus
Empty Galleries, Empty Wallets

Museums and other vital cultural institutions feel the coronavirus squeeze

illustration of a museum in norway, the new arctic museum, with glowing white volumes
Northern (de)lights

Henning Larsen unveils seaside museum in Norway’s northernmost reaches

Photo of women marching with signs in Washington, D.C. during Women's March 2017
She Builds

House passes bill to build women’s history museum on National Mall

A round, three-story white building with a glazed central atrium
Brainstorming

Mr. Brainwash will convert a Richard Meier-designed building into a Beverly Hills art museum

Motown Museum expansion
Next stop, Hitsville

Detroit’s Motown Museum teases expansion in new flyover video

Image of facade installation of The Depot
mirror mirror on the wall

MVRDV’s Depot houses a national archive behind mirror glass