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Museum Review | The National Museum of American History: America’s Attic, Ready for a Second Act

Posted: November 21st, 2008, 6:58am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

When the National Museum of American History reopens, it may begin to shed its reputation as one of the more cramped and confounding corners of the Smithsonian Institution.

Connections: What Would George Bailey Do?

Posted: November 4th, 2008, 5:15am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The central predicament of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with its eerie prefigurement of the present, provokes a closer look at the crossroads in which culture and finance intersect.

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Exhibition Review: Ambivalence as Part of Author’s Legacy

Posted: October 21st, 2008, 5:13am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

An exhibition about Irène Némirovsky at the Museum of Jewish Heritage includes the manuscript of her “Suite Française.”

Exhibition Review | 'Climate Change': Apocalypse Now, via Diorama

Posted: October 17th, 2008, 5:10am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

If the End of Days were going to be portrayed in a museum exhibition, it might look like the array of natural disasters that can be found at “Climate Change” at the American Museum of Natural History.

Exhibition Review | 'The Dead Sea Scrolls': Peering Into the Mystery of Those Enigmatic Fragments

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:01am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Go see these six encased bits of ancient text at the Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World,” before it closes on Jan. 4.

Museum Review: Renewed Vantage at Center of Battle

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 3:58am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The Gettysburg Cyclorama is returning to public view on Friday after a five-year, $15 million restoration

Connections: Voodoo and New Orleans: Two Cultures of Permeable Boundaries

Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:59am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Boundaries between life and death seem permeable in the humid heat of New Orleans.

Connections: Behold in the Mirror the Brutal Face of War and Militarism

Posted: July 29th, 2008, 3:39am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The problem with “Homeland” and “Die Soldaten,” two productions at this year’s Lincoln Center Festival, is that they mistake the struggle for the threat itself.

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Connections: The Prowess of the Painter in a Hunter’s Paradise

Posted: July 14th, 2008, 5:19am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyo., exhibits paintings, drawings and sculptures of wild animals.

Connections: Identities on Display: Bonding at the Museum

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The contemporary identity museum is the kind of institution that is as central for our time as the imperial art museum was for 19th-century Europe.

Connections: The Forest Premeditated: Illusions of Wildness in a Botanical Garden

Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:34am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Spend some time at the New York Botanical Garden and the entire idea of a garden, let alone a “botanical garden,” starts to become strange.

Museum Review: Seattle Asian Museum Moves Around the Corner and Into Its Identity

Posted: May 31st, 2008, 5:58am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

As the Wing Luke Asian Museum reopens on Saturday, the celebrations here are about more than mere institutional accomplishments.

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Museum Review | Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation: Attic-Like Museum’s New Annex of Ideas

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:38am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation opened last weekend at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass.

An Appraisal: For Clarke, Issues of Faith, but Tackled Scientifically

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:00am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction was religious in the largest sense of religion: speculating about beginnings and endings, and how we get from one to the other.