MIAMI — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, while still attending school, Portuondo learned of a military force of Cuban refugees being organized by the United States government. He and … Read more
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — In the cramped backroom of a theater, Vicki Taylor glues together tiny figurines that peer over electrical boxes, canoe down drainage pipes and hide in nooks and crannies waiting to be found by someone curious enough to get on their hands and knees to search. Taylor and her husband, Rick, opened the … Read more
A priceless gold 2,500-year-old helmet from Romania that was stolen last year in the Netherlands has been recovered, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand told AFP on Thursday. “It’s amazing. It’s the best news we could have got,” said Brand, confirming that the lost Helmet of Cotofenesti had been found. Prosecutors are expected to make an … Read more
Thieves stole works of Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a private art museum near Parma, Italy, police said. CBS News’ Shanelle Kaul has more. Source link
Workers uprooted a statue of fictional fighter Rocky Balboa from its base outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Wednesday and moved it inside where it’ll be the main event of an exhibit celebrating the beloved half-century-old movie. That massive bronze artwork is one of three identical statues, inspired by Sylvester Stallone’s famed “Rocky” franchise, … Read more
An Underground Railroad museum in upstate New York alleged in a lawsuit Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated its federal grant on the basis of race, pointing to President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle diversity-focused initiatives. The Underground Railroad Education Center, located in Albany N.Y., alleges in its lawsuit that the National Endowment for … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! All four Democrats on the House Administration Committee voted against advancing a measure to authorize land on the National Mall to construct the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The measure cleared the committee on a 7-4 party-line vote, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said. Malliotakis, … Read more
WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from one of the first sunken slave ships ever recovered is taken off display in Washington. The National Museum of African … Read more
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The head of the Louvre Museum resigned Tuesday, four months after a brazen daylight heist where thieves snatched jewels worth approximately $102 million, shocking French citizens who questioned how a security breach of such magnitude could have taken place. French President Emmanuel Macron accepted Laurence des Cars’s resignation, his office said in a statement on … Read more