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• Tens of Thousands Try for Tickets to See Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum

  03-07-2026 22:51 via artnews.com
  
  Tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it goes on view at the British Museum this fall sold out in just over 24 hours this week, reports the Telegraph. The museum said it was the biggest day of ticket sales in its history.Depicting the Norman conquest of England 1066 and made there in the 1070s, the Bayeux Tapestry (technically an embroidery) is an astonishing 230 feet long and, according to the British Museum, features 58 detailed scenes, each rendered in colored wool on flax. On loan from the
  
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• A Standout 250th Show Confronts Centuries of American Contradictions

  03-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Fragments of an equestrian statue of King George III, which loomed over Bowling Green in New York City until it was toppled in 1776, open “Democracy Matters,” the inaugural exhibition in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical. Most of the statue was melted down and reformed into musket balls, and several of these are on display in the opening section of the show across from four large intact pieces of the original. These are framed by an animation of silh
  
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