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Are Museums the New Runway? Inside the Fashion Exhibit’s Luxury Takeover

Every year, on the first Monday in May, people tune in to watch celebrities walk up the steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on what’s considered fashion’s biggest night. Vogue—more specifically, Anna Wintour—has transformed the opening of its spring fashion exhibit into one of the most publicized moments of the Hollywood social…

Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum

Cs news8 months ago015 mins

The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old building in central Phnom Penh is running out of room partly because foreign collectors and institutions have returned about 300 stolen artifacts over the past…