In praise of the Acropolis Museum Café and Restaurant
The menu includes many of the greatest hits along with enough neologisms to excite
Museums
Tuesday
Tuesday
Trump is right to take on the Smithsonian
The curators’ political peacocking has long carried no risk
Tuesday
Locatelli has entered the premier league of museum dining
The best Italian chefs walk the line between history and the future
Wednesday
Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke’
Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions
Tuesday
How museums can promote diversity without demonizing tradition
We need art that keeps our collective imagination and sense of tradition alive
Thursday
The death of the American museum
The drive to inspire has been overtaken by the gratuitous need to moralize
Monday
There’s more to Bordeaux than fine wine
The French city is rich in history, culture and class of all kinds
Tuesday
A cultural summer in the city
New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
Thursday
The divine Dalí and his ‘Christ’
In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it
Friday
Understanding museum theft with best-selling author Kirk Wallace Johnson
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
Sunday
What museums can learn from contemporary technology
The National Gallery of Art has quietly but steadily undergone a major culture shift
Las Vegas’s Mob Museum revels in the city’s gritty past
Sin City is proud of its inglorious past
Wednesday
Behind closed doors
The Cloisters by Katy Hays reviewed
Monday
J.P. Morgan and our gilded age
The house of Morgan — the literal house of Morgan — is tying itself into knots to ‘prioritize’ all things black
Saturday
Abolishing museums serves nobody
Activist demands will destroy museums — and make us all poorer
Tuesday
Good riddance to the Newseum
The shrine to the importance of ‘journalism’ was doomed from the outset
