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It's the First Monday in May! ✨ There’s no #MetGala today—this photo is from 2019!—but the 2021 #CostumeInstitute Benefit will be held on Monday, September 13 (subject to government guidelines), with co-chairs Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, and Naomi Osaka. https://t.co/2gxhwCJARx

In a 'historic milestone,' Germany will begin to return the Benin Bronzes from its public collections to Nigeria in 2022: https://t.co/srrDeKicHS https://t.co/r2O5HecppL

The activities undertaken by black women to push back against their erasure, in the late ’60s through the early ’80s, effectively amounted to a desire for a revolution. https://t.co/1PJz3s0BMs

Years of storms rage across the sky in a dramatic new timelapse by Mike Olbinski https://t.co/HPxYcoLNYi https://t.co/pJg5CXoeDK

Sisters by Holly Warburton #hollywarburton hollywarbs

The Colosseum in Rome will get a $22.2 million upgrade that will include a new gladiator floor https://t.co/mqyyPWpmCM

The 2021 #MetGala—The Costume Institute's primary source of annual funding—will celebrate the upcoming two-part exhibition “In America” focusing on the history of American fashion and honoring the 75th anniversary of The Costume Institute. #MetInAmerica https://t.co/x6xEukQa2A

France will allow museums and galleries to reopen next month. Some dealers say it's still not soon enough: https://t.co/hAhgoIpIAQ https://t.co/F9bZrPpI6j

The story of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has been irresistible to journalists for four decades, laden as it is with period glamour, political intrigue and eye-catching art https://t.co/EjyN86piAQ

A cartographer has accidentally discovered a trove of Bronze Age objects in a Swedish forest https://t.co/ZLBouVFXOa

On May 10, join us & @Sothebys for a virtual discussion with @FABNEWYORK, Futura, @LeeQuinones & Lady Pink, four of the artists featured in "Writing the Future: Basquiat and the #HipHopGeneration." 📋 Preregister for the program & submit your questions: https://t.co/YXU5SpnZBs https://t.co/PuIV1JpdE6

“In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” opens to the public September 18. Part two, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” will open May 5, 2022. 🎥 Watch the video on our site to learn more and glimpse a few of the fashions that will be on view. #MetInAmerica https://t.co/au5qZGeyGG

Buyers chased bronze Pigeons and Crocodile chairs at Sotheby's $45 million sale of a real estate executive's collection: https://t.co/8tCdrAPcJS https://t.co/FQUk94Iz5Y

New research suggests that a famed portrait by Hans Holbein may depict a different sitter than scholars once thought https://t.co/bEPf1nYFIN

Objects tell stories! Items passed down in families hold tales of who made them, their function, who used them, and more. Learn how to make your own book featuring the stories of treasured objects. https://t.co/91KwUfXL7q https://t.co/RS4g92sa9m