South Carolina could spend up to $3.6 million to house and display the Confederate flag that once flew in front of the statehouse. After a long deliberation, the state removed the flag in July after nine members of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal were murdered in a hate crime.
The Juicy Couture tracksuit, uniform of circa 2004 Paris Hilton and the “cool mom,” will be recognized as an icon of millennial wealth in an exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert museum.
Survive enough November 1 hangovers and you’ll be forced to face the fact that Halloween is best experienced as a dorky, candy-heavy good time with a heavy dose of creepiness and an undercurrent of decay. One group doing it right: Museums and libraries, who are taking this holiday as an opportunity to post all their…
The fall, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is hosting an exhibition featuring centuries worth of textiles from India. Judging by the preview pictures available, it’s going to be gorgeous.
In January of 2015, Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, a former diversity chief at Google, had plans approved to build a museum in Whitechapel, London that would “retell the story of the East End through the eyes, voices, experiences and actions” of women. Six month later, construction covers have been removed to reveal few minor…
Sorry, selfie stick enthusiasts, but the number of places where your selfie sticks are welcome continues to shrink. The latest no-go zone: Wimbledon.
What is art, really? What is it? This is a video in which a bunch of so-called "art experts" in the Netherlands are tricked into thinking an Ikea painting is high art.
Not content to obsess over every detail of the lives of Lady Mary, the Countess Dowager and Mr. Carson simply via your television or Internet connection? Not to worry—you now have a chance to get up close and personal with them, or at least their snazzy, gorgeous period costumes.
The oldest crown in existence in the world is coming to New York, and from the looks of it, it's pretty much here to conquer all of us.
Did you wait too long to buy holiday gifts? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Skip the heinous store lines and "sold out" signs. There's plenty of stuff that you can make yourself, or has immediately delivery. Here's our list of last minute gifts that will make your loved ones think you planned ahead.
For an 87-year-old one-(huge) hit-wonder, Harper Lee has been in the news a lot recently, from that time back in early May when she sued an agent for allegedly “duping” her into signing over the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird six years ago, to her current lawsuit against a museum in her Alabama hometown for the…
In an attempt to lure more visitors during rough times, museums are arranging exhibits featuring nudes. Art is more fun when it's sexay.
Have you been to the American Museum of Natural History lately? Like, as a grownup? It'll make you feel like a kid again, if only because all the nudity will lower your maturity level significantly. Seriously, the place puts more dick in your face than a glory hole on Christopher Street. It really seems to emphasize…
Senators Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint won't let the Smithsonian lease space to a women's history museum — because the ladies already have their quilting museums, and because someone told them the museum was going to be pro-abortion. Seriously.
[Washington, DC, August 25. Jane Henson, co-creator of the Muppets, participates in a ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History]
Canadian feminist magazine Herizons has created the Museum of Motherhood. For now it's purely online, but the founders hope to ultimately bring their tribute to mothers, their stories (and their herstories) to stone-and-mortar life. [Utne]
Paris' Quai Branly Museum, which is dedicated to the "primary arts" of Africa, the Pacific, the Americas and Asia, is devoting an exhibit to the iconography of Tarzan,"the King of the Apes, and his mate Jane." [Reuters]
Greenway, Agatha Christie's 18th-century Georgian country home, has been restored and opened to the public, exactly as it was when it served as the inspiration for a number of the author's mysteries. [AP]
The city of Grasse, the center of France's perfume industry since the 16th century, has reopened a museum dedicated to the history of scent. The more you know: Marie Antoinette loved violet perfume. [NPR]
Dina Vierny began posing for the sculptor Aristide Maillol as a teenager in order to earn pocket money.
