Chinese artefacts worth almost £2m that were stolen from a University of Durham museum are recovered by police.

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BELGRADE — Police in Serbia have recovered a painting by Paul Cezanne that was stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss museum four years ago, officials said Thursday. Cezanne’s “Boy in a Red Waistcoat,” which reportedly is worth more than $100 million, was one of four paintings stolen in 2008 from the E. G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich by a trio of masked robbers. Read full article > >

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Stolen Cezanne painting recovered in Serbia

The second iteration of the Google Art Project has greatly expanded the number of museums and artworks available.

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Critic’s Notebook: Google Art Project’s Expanded Offerings

A Cezanne painting stolen in a raid on a Swiss museum in 2008 is recovered in Serbia.

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Serb police find stolen Cezanne

Police name two men wanted in connection with a raid on a Durham University museum in which artefacts worth almost £2m were taken.

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Men sought over £1.8m museum raid

Tuesday’s concert was the beginning of “Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8,” with Kraftwerk performing eight consecutive albums on eight nights at the Museum of Modern Art for audiences limited to 450 people.

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Music Review: Kraftwerk Revisits ‘Autobahn’ at MoMA Retrospective

Two artefacts valued at £1.8m are stolen from Durham University’s Oriental Museum in a night-time raid.

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Stolen artefacts valued at £1.8m

The fate of the Aurora Pyramid of Hope, a rare collection of 295 naturally colored diamonds that has been exhibited in prestigious museums, is being decided in Surrogate’s Court in the Bronx.

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Court Battle Over Aurora Pyramid of Hope Diamonds

Kate Krader ( @kkrader on Twitter ) is Food & Wine's restaurant editor. When she tells us where to find our culinary heart's desire, we listen up. So, have you heard that Taco Bell bought the rights to Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell? They’ll be renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. According to the Museum of Hoaxes – which I’d consider an expert on the subject – that 1996 prank, complete with full-page newspaper ads, is No. 4 on the Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes. Other food-related gags on the list include the Left-Handed Whopper at No. 7. Burger King “announced” that it was rotating all its ingredients 180 degrees for their left-handed customers and then got thousands of requests for those burgers, as well as for right-handed ones. And at No. 1, the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest. In 1957, the BBC said that, thanks to a mild winter, Swiss farmers had a bumper crop of spaghetti; the accompanying photos of people picking spaghetti strands off trees is hilarious. All of which goes to show that you can have a lot of fun playing April Fools' Day food-related jokes, so share your potential pranks in the comments and you too might make it onto the Top 100 Hoaxes list. More from Food & Wine : 50 Best Bars in America Best Pizza Places in the U.S. Best Ice Cream Spots in the U.S. America’s Best Coffee Bars Easter Recipes

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The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition, “Creatures of Light,” that looks at the strange world of bioluminesence.

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Exhibition Review: ‘Creatures of Light’ at American Museum of Natural History

Hopes to display them in a museum.

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Jeff Bezos Locates Apollo 11 Engines

Most natural history museums are in urban centers, but the Natural History Museum of Utah is housed in the realm it surveys.

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Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City

They gathered Thursday night in cocktail gowns and hipster garb, in wrinkled dress shirts unchanged since the workday, and in the comfortable baggy uniform of the cherry blossom tourists — and stood gawping at the Hirshhorn Museum . The much-anticipated multimedia piece , “Song 1,” by Doug Aitken, finally had its premiere. Read full article > >

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Hirshhorn Museum’s “Song 1” is all about projection

A major show at the Museum of Modern Art surveys Cindy Sherman’s 35-year career in which, waging a kind of war with her camera, she has provocatively turned photography against itself.

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Art Review: ‘Cindy Sherman’ at Museum of Modern Art

Ground will be broken this week on Washington’s newest museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and in all honesty I’m of two minds about it. Certainly if there is to be a separate national museum devoted to the history and culture of any group of Americans, this should be it. Americans have been arguing about slavery since before the founding of the republic. We fought a bloody war over the enslavement of African Americans and we’ve been living with the social, economic, political and moral consequences ever since. African Americans also have had an outsize influence on American arts, culture and athletics. That this week’s cere­-mony will be presided over by the first black president of the United States should be a moment of national pride. Read full article > >

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A museum for American ingenuity?