Three people have been arrested in connection with a brazen heist at a museum in the Netherlands over the weekend in which thieves stole ancient artifacts, including a prized golden helmet on loan from Romania, the authorities said on Wednesday. The three people were arrested in Heerhugowaard, a city about 30 miles north of Amsterdam … Read more
Let’s be candid here. Vomit is something you want to get rid of. You don’t want it hanging around for a day, or an hour, or even a few minutes. And certainly not for 66 million years. And yet, scientists say, vomit that old has been found in the Cliffs of Stevns, a white chalk … Read more
The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he unveiled sweeping plans to renovate the world’s biggest and most visited museum. Speaking in front of La Gioconda herself, Mr. Macron also announced that the Louvre would create a … Read more
The Africa Center in New York has named a new leader, Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat with a multidisciplinary background who embodies the wide spectrum of offerings the institution is embracing as it expands its audience. Kimani, 53, a former permanent representative of Kenya to the United Nations who also held other government positions … Read more
The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum — an art and history museum in Assen, the Netherlands — and then an explosion and a flurry of sparks in the wee hours of Saturday. By daybreak, it had become … Read more
Robbers used explosives to force open a door at a Dutch museum early Saturday morning, stealing several gold masterpieces, museum officials said in a statement. Police received a report at 3:45 a.m. local time Saturday about an explosion at the Drents Museum in Assen. Upon arrival, officers found the museum damaged and the gold masterpieces … Read more
The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank, and this classroom photograph, taken at a Montessori school in Amsterdam in 1935, appears twice in “Anne Frank the Exhibition,” … Read more
The moment well after midnight when one day slides into the next is usually a lonely time, observed by security guards and nurses, insomniacs and students cramming for exams. But this weekend, at the National Gallery in London, thousands of people were there together. They had come to see Friday into Saturday with some of … Read more
The long ride from the international airport to the city of Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java at least has the virtue of easing a jet-lagged traveler through a liminal zone of rice-paddy plains and jungle hills. Then the buzzy metropolis closes round, and everything is all business and hot tropical urban disarray. Streets … Read more