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What should the National Portrait Gallery do about a controversial donor?

Visitors at the Museum of the Dog in New York.

OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS

Against all odds, a new museum has made it fun to visit old dog paintings and figurines

IN GOOD COMPANY

The Museum of Failure’s founder has a failure of his own: personal bankruptcy

Robert Cenedella painting.

VALUE JUDGMENTS

An artist’s $100 million suit against museums that rejected his work

The recently destroyed National Museum of Brazil lives on in Google’s new virtual tour

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British museums are full of Indian history. Now, they’re finally getting Indian-origin curators

Three large royal statues of the Kingdom of Dahomey are displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris

Europe needs to do more than just return Africa’s looted art treasures

Thai sand castle contest.

ART REPATRIATION

Thailand wants US museums to give its art back

PUT A RING ON IT

Why have humans always worn jewelry?

A Buddha statue next to an X-ray showing the remains of a monk inside. Villagers from Yangchun, eastern China, are appealing for the return of the statue, known as the Zhanggong patriarch.

ZHANGGONG PATRIARCH

A group of Chinese villagers traveled to Amsterdam to ask for the return of a mummified monk