Nearly a century after the idea was first floated, a museum dedicated to the magic of cinema is finally set to open in Los Angeles, with the first temporary exhibition devoted to Japanese animator Hayao…
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London museum to honour fashion giant Alaia with 2018 show
French-Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaia will be honoured by London’s Design Museum with a major exhibition next year following his death on November 18 at the age of 77. “Azzedine Alaia: The Couturier” will run…
#Travel: Louvre Abu Dhabi gears up for launch
More than a decade in the making, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opens its doors this week, bringing the famed name to the Arab world for the first time. French President Emmanuel Macron is set to…
#Travel: Yves Saint Laurent museum opens to the public in Marrakesh
Visitors crowded through the doors Thursday as a museum to legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent opened to the public in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh. The museum’s management said 1,000 people thronged through its…
Ivory Coast’s African art museum gets new lease of life
It has been buffeted by the pendulum swing of domestic politics and suffered looting that left it without some of its most precious items. But Ivory Coast’s Museum of Civilisations is now back, and determined…
Museums give peek into secret world of Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent was one of greatest yet most private fashion designers of the 20th century. Now only weeks after the death of his partner and lover Pierre Berge, the hard-nosed business brain behind the…
Brazil’s biggest dinosaur found after passing 60 years in cupboard
Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur — in a storage cupboard. In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters (82 feet) long — longer than an…
Attention beer lovers: US museum seeks historian for paid beer drinking
Attention beer lovers: the National Museum of American History may have your dream job — traveling the country drinking brews, all expenses paid. The job, which pays $64,650 a year, is no joke. The Washington,…
Napoleon’s last horse to strut his stuff after makeover
Visitors to the Army Museum in Paris are being treated to the rare sight of two taxidermists at work restoring a stuffed horse — the last one ridden by Napoleon Bonaparte. “Le Vizir” is a…
A brief history of underwear exposed at London’s V&A
From rigid corsets to barely-there nylon briefs, a new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum explores three centuries of underwear in Europe, focusing on Britain’s relationship with its most intimate garments. “Fashion and underwear…