Museums

‘Spies in the House of Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum

9 Feb 2012

The 17 contemporary works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video� were inspired by museums.

Government pays for billboard outside Louvre advertising free British museums

9 Feb 2012

A taxpayer-funded billboard advert has been put up outside the Louvre in Paris to make the point that British museums are free of charge to enter.

Hope dwarfs museums to betrayal

8 Feb 2012

Ratiya Ram, subsistence farmer in the fields off Nandganj, a highway hamlet en route, can't remember things any different from his grandfather's time. "Upjao-becho, upjao-becho, aur kya karenge hum? (Grow and sell, grow and sell, what else is there for us to do?)" He never went to school, he has not sent any of his four children either. "Khet mein kaam kaun karega? (Who will work in the fields ...