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...YORK CITY Rococo Check out the Cooper-Hewitt museum's splashy Rococo exhibit this month, featuring furniture, drawings and housewares that illustrate the birth of the style in the 18th century and current reinterpretations...
WEST PALM BEACH Calder jewelry The first exhibit devoted to Alexander Calder's unique, handcrafted jewelry from the 1930s to the 1970s opens at the Norton Museum...
...anger and street protests in the two countries, especially among the majority indigenous populations. For them, coca has been a cultural cornerstone for 3,000 years, as much a part of daily life as coffee in the U.S. (La Paz is home to perhaps the world's only coca museum.) From the countryside to swanky urban hotels, it is chewed or brewed to stave off hunger or exhaustion or to ease the often debilitating effects of high-altitude life in the Andes. It is also "used by healers and in ceremonial offerings to the gods," says Ana Maria Chavez...
...accepted by the university one year later, which may explain why Harvard has not yet faced a large public claim on its objects. The document stipulated that curators should make sure that their acquisitions had not been illicitly imported or exported in the recent past and established that the museum should know an object’s history at least as far back as July...
...Cuno and Ebbinghaus, the future of antiquities lies in replacing the current minefield of export regulations with another system: partage, a process by which institutions that sponsor excavations receive a share of the finds. In the first half of the 20th century, the archeological museums of universities like Yale and Harvard and art museums like the MFA used partage to acquire their most important pieces. In the 1920s and 1930s, a team from Harvard excavated a site called Nuzi in modern Iraq, finding thousands of cuneiform tablets that detailed daily life. These remain on display in Harvard?...