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Step inside the homes of some of the world’s most illustrious writers, artists and other historical personalities — and see how interiors can reveal interior lives
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...Ernst Museum....
...The Museum of London closed in 2022 after 46 years in the London Wall location. It plans to reopen as the London Museum in 2026 in new premises in Smithfield Market....
...Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus each own outstanding 16th- and 17th-century Flemish drawings....
...And, importantly — since the Rijksmuseum is unusual among national art institutions in that it is also the country’s national history museum — “Can you have historical objects next to works of art?”...
...An audio guide compounds the blurring of life and art — switching freely from the novel to Pamuk’s own narration as curator....
...The Aspen Art Museum is unusual as US museums go: it does not have a collection....
...I ask her how difficult it is to promote a museum that shows works that are not — I choose my word carefully — “trendy”, in an art world fixated on Modern and contemporary art....
...He lived there just two years, “a very short period in his very short life”, explains Rob Shakespeare, head of heritage and museums for the City of London Corporation, which manages the site....
...wavered from his commitment to art....
...One prominent British collector, a member of British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel, felt it was the only dignified course of action....
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...Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother, the Metropolitan Museum’s latest love letter to the mnemonic power of photography, amps up that effect — or tries to....
...a work of art while preserving my own fantasy of it....
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