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Amy Sherald at the Whitney Gala held at The Whitney Museum of Art on May 20, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Alyssa Greenberg/Getty Images)

Sherald cancels Smithsonian show

Cheyenne McNeill
A selection of deep-sea specimens from the Natural History Museum in London's collection. (Trustees of the Natural History Museum London)

Rotting museum specimens equal setbacks

Darren Incorvaia - Undark
Butterfly specimens in research lab (Getty Images/Inti St Clair)

Many new species are already gone

Katarina Zimmer - Undark
Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
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Children play in a large mirrored object at the Science Museum on it's official re-opening day on August 19, 2020 in London, England. The Science Museum reopens its doors to the public today, nearly five months after the Coronavirus pandemic shut down all public spaces. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Museums as a childcare, schooling option

Ashlie D. Stevens
The "Women of Abstract Expressionism" Exhibit at the Denver Art Museum (Denver Art Museum)

Art museums will never be the same

David Joselit - MIT Press Reader
Artist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith stands in front of her mural "We Can Breathe" in downtown Oakland (Photo courtesy of Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith)

Who owns Black Lives Matter protest art?

Alex Brady
People march from The National Museum of African American History and Culture to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to mark the Juneteenth holiday June 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Museum exhibits pivot to Black history

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Amazon employees hold a protest and walkout over conditions at the company's Staten Island distribution facility on March 30, 2020 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Field Museum workers demand transparency

Jeff Schuhrke - In These Times
The Museum of Capitalism (Rebecca Elmquist/Museum of Capitalism)

Pillars of the community

Kate Yoder - Grist
Visitors admire Rembrandt's Night Watch (1642), part of an exhibition of the all the Rijksmuseum's Rembrandts in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The year of Rembrandt

Jacquelyn N. Coutré - The Conversation
The Church of Scientology (AP/Richard Vogel)

Go inside the bizarre Scientology museum

Brad Reed - Raw Story
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A sign with some names of the Sackler family is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Dirty money and museums

Rachel Leah
Steve Green, the owner of Hobby Lobby and a founder and major backer of the Museum of the Bible, at the museum, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Museum of the Bible and fake antiquities

Noah Charney
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Delacroix at the Met

Claire Black McCoy - The Conversation
The skeleton of a prehistoric Spinosaurus at Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, Nov. 29, 2009. (AP/Francois Mori)

Digitizing "dark data"

Charles Marshall - The Conversation
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Making MoMA fashionable

Ayse Birsel - Design The Life You Love
Flames engulf the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2, 2018. (AP/Leo Correa)

Museums are not forever

Chip Colwell - The Conversation
David Bowie poses beside his Rolls Royce in May 1973. (AP)

David Bowie, up close and personal

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Salon)

Life, liberty and the pursuit of profit?

David Masciotra
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Donald Trump; Melania Trump (Getty/Saul Loeb)

The best art for the Trump White House

Rachel Leah
Doug Jones and his wife Louise (AP/John Bazemore)

30 things we love about Alabama

Rachel Leah
National Museum of African American History and Culture (AP/Susan Walsh)

Year One of the Museum of Hard Truths

Robert L. Wilkins
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (AP/Kathy Willens)

Guggenheim pulls controversial

Matthew Rozsa
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