Film showing how Sjarel Ex ‘directs’ the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. A director must have many faces, as you have to deal with wondrous artists, ancient collectors, business people, fellow directors, staff and many others. Multi-talent Ex seems to have no problem with this at all.

Amateur taxidermist, Walter Potter, became an unlikely success by putting his creatures in human pos...

Portrait of the Canadian artist duo Cozic, composed of Monic Brassard (1944) and Yvon Cozic (1942). ...

From the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence to Dorothy's ruby slippers, t...

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the...

The grand opening dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Histo...

How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their ...

Sámi artefacts from the Finnish National Museum are returning home to Sápmi, while the holy drums of...

Human beings are the kings of all animals, at least if you ask us humans. Our vanity is given someth...

A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Exp...

Some of them move. Others make noise. One weighs in at 700 pounds. Collectively, they represent the ...

During the last three decades, war and terrorism have devastated much of Afghanistan's rich cultural...

From the evacuation of the reserves, threatened by the flooding of the Seine in June 2016, to the fi...

The natural sciences museum of La Plata, Argentina, had indigenous people held captive as study obje...

The essence of progress in civilization has always been handiwork. In traditional Chinese civilizati...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

People looking at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre – or are they just looking at themselves?

UNESCO Memory of the World: Explore the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica’s new home with 25,000+ r...

Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in ce...

How have the changing views on children been reflected in their representation in art? From Baby Jes...