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The San Antonio Museum of Art is glad it kept mask requirements

by Alli Fam
Jun 29, 2020
As cases surge across Texas, the museums's co-interim director reflects on reopening and the safety precautions taken.
Visitors in the galleries of the San Antonio Art Museum.
Courtesy of the San Antonio Museum of Art
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The new Lucas Museum will bring economic force to Los Angeles

by Annie Baxter
Jan 11, 2017
The $1 billion project will display "Star Wars" items and other works of narrative storytelling.
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The economic impact of a major new museum

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 23, 2016
Washington, D.C. is opening a new museum on the history of African-Americans.
A statue of Colorado pioneer and former slave Clara Brown is on display next to a preserved slave cabin at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Prince's Paisley Park will open its doors to fans

by Reema Khrais
Aug 26, 2016
Prince's museum will be run by a firm with ties to Elvis Presley's Graceland.
Music fans visit a memorial created outside Paisley Park, the home and studio of Prince.
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SF MOMA woos a digital city with art, design and tech

by Molly Wood
May 13, 2016
The expansion has plenty of interactive screens and a serene interior to reduce distraction — by your interactive screens.
People watch an art piece entitled "Shadow Sites II" by Jananne Al-Ani, inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California on April 28, 2016. The newly redesigned museum integrates a 10-story expansion in a new building and will open to the public on May 14, 2016. 
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The Art of Selling

by David Brancaccio
Apr 13, 2015
Museums get in the business of selling their masterpiece?
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World's biggest art heist, 25 years later

by David Gura
Mar 18, 2015
Few clues and nothing recovered. The art world will never be the same
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Which cities will profit off the Star Wars museum?

by Jeff Tyler
May 22, 2014
Chicago is competing with San Francisco to host a new George Lucas museum.
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Making art out of the housing crisis

by Lizzie O'Leary
Aug 14, 2013
A new art exhibit in Los Angeles looks at the history of housing in America and how our views on the home have changed over time.
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Detroit art sale: Museum ready to fight

by Lizzie O'Leary
Aug 8, 2013
The city of Detroit has brought in Christie's to appraise its art collection to help bail the city out of its $18 billion debt.
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