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Madame Tussauds Honors Taylor Swift With Record 13 Wax Figures

This is Beirut, 24/07 13:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Museum Taylor Swift Wax Statues Madame Tussauds Britain Culture

US pop megastar Taylor Swift will be honored with 13 waxworks of her at Madame Tussauds venues around the globe, the museum said on Wednesday. In honor of Swift's lucky number, 13 of the waxwork museum's 22 branches will each receive a statue of the Love Story and Blank Space singer, in what it called the "most ambitious project" of its 250-year ...

France Museum Visitor Eats Million-Dollar Banana Artwork Again

This is Beirut, 19/07 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

France Art Exhibition Culture Comedian Museum

A visitor to a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth millions of dollars taped to a wall last week, exhibitors said on Friday, in the latest such consumption of the conceptual artwork. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — whose provocative creation entitled Comedian was bought for $6.2 million in New York last year — said he was ...

Another Delay for Egypt’s Grand Museum Shakes Tourism Hopes

This is Beirut, 15/07 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Museum Egypt Heritage Culture Art Exhibition

In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped the long-awaited opening would bring, now once again out of reach. "I had bet everything on this opening," she told AFP from her shop, just steps from the iconic pyramids of Giza, which the much-anticipated museum ...

How the Seine River Secretly Cools the Louvre and Paris

This is Beirut, 19/06 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Louvre Seine Paris France Museum

As Paris braces for a heatwave this weekend, a little-known network of underground pipes will be cooling the Louvre Museum and other storied landmarks using water from the River Seine. Since 1991, the river water has been cooling more than 800 buildings via a humble but hard-working system that is still relatively underutilized worldwide. Paris ...

Inside London's V&A Storehouse: A Treasure Trove Unlocked

This is Beirut, 12/06 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

London Museum Exhibition Art Culture

Imagine being able to visit a museum and examine up close thousand-year-old pottery, revel alone in jewelry from centuries past, or peer inside a Versace bag. Now London's V&A has launched a revolutionary new exhibition space, where visitors can choose from some 250,000 objects, order something they want to spend time looking at, and have it ...

A Dream Come True: Barcelona’s Miró Foundation Turns 50

This is Beirut, 08/06 14:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Miró Spain Barcelona Museum Exhibition Culture

A major cultural institution, the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a rich lineup of exhibitions, concerts, and special events paying tribute to the prolific Catalan artist. The festivities, taking place throughout the year under the slogan “For the People of Tomorrow,” begin Thursday with the opening ...

African Art Reimagined at Met Museum’s Revamped Wing

This is Beirut, 30/05 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Museum Culture Art NYC Met

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present. After a four-year renovation with a $70 million price tag, the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing comes ...

Edwardian Glamour and Royal Splendor at Buckingham Palace

This is Beirut, 11/04 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Museum Exhibition Art Culture Buckingham Palace

Elegance, opulence, and hedonism—an exceptional exhibition in London retraces the Edwardian era before World War I through the lives of Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII, during a time of great transformation. The exhibition, The Edwardians: Age of Elegance, opens Friday at Buckingham Palace and runs through November 23. It brings together ...

The National Gallery Invites One Lucky Overnight Guest

This is Beirut, 08/04 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

National Gallery UK Exhibition Museum Art Culture

A lucky visitor will soon become the first ever to sleep overnight at Britain's National Gallery, after the 200-year-old museum launched a competition on Monday to mark the reopening of a wing housing celebrated European paintings. When the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment on May 10, the overnight guest — to be picked at ...

Lifelike Kylian Mbappe Wax Figure Unveiled in London

This is Beirut, 05/04 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Museum Art Culture Kylian Mbappe

France superstar Kylian Mbappe received one of the greatest honors that England can bestow upon a sportsman from a rival nation on Friday — a lifelike waxwork at London's Madame Tussauds museum. The statue shows the 2018 World Cup winner striking a familiar pose — arms crossed and wearing France's white away jersey from last summer's European ...

'Image Whisperers' bring Vision to the Blind at Red Cross Museum

This is Beirut, 02/04 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Red Cross Red Crescent Museum Blind

"They are our eyes," said Karin happily after releasing the arm of one of the specialised "image whisperers" guiding her and other blind people around Geneva's Red Cross museum. The museum has been offering its new image prompter service to the visually impaired since late last year. Karin, who did not want to give her ...

Rubens or Replica? Controversy Over 'Samson and Delilah' Rekindled

This is Beirut, 08/03 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Painting Art Culture London Museum Book

Gaudy colors, messy brushwork, even a set of missing toes—the debate about the authenticity of Rubens’s Samson and Delilah will be reignited next week with the release of a book alleging that the painting hanging in London’s National Gallery is actually a copy. The work by the 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens was purchased by ...

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