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St. Louis Art Museum
4:54 pm
Tue December 4, 2012

Sneak Peek: St. Louis Art Museum Expansion

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Reporters get a view of Forest Park from one of the galleries in the new East Building of the St. Louis Art Museum on Dec. 4, 2012.
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The new East Building of the Saint Louis Art Museum is nearly complete with a June 2013 grand opening planned.
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The construction of the St. Louis Art Museum’s new addition is now complete, but it will be several months before it’s open to the public.

The East Building, as its name suggests, sits to the east of the main building and features a dark polished exterior.

It was designed by British architect Sir David Chipperfield.

Museum director Brent Benjamin says Chipperfield did an incredible job connecting and relating the new building with the old.

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Cityscape
2:32 pm
Fri October 26, 2012

Performing And Preserving 20th Century American Composers

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American Century Music along with the St. Louis Art Museum presents “Views from the American Century.”

According to ACM’s website the mission of the organization is to “fill a vacuum in America’s cultural fabric by bringing inspired, well-crafted works out of their obscurity with committed, insightful performances which they unquestionably deserve.”

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Ancient Art
12:08 pm
Thu April 5, 2012

Judge rules 3,200-year-old mummy mask can stay in St. Louis

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Mummy Mask of the Lady Ka-nefer-nefer.
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A 3,200-year-old mummy mask at the center of an international dispute will remain in St. Louis following a ruling by a federal judge.

The U.S. government sought to return the funeral mask of Lady Ka-nefer-nefer to Egypt, claiming it had been stolen before the St. Louis Art Museum purchased it from a New York art dealer in 1998. But U.S. District Judge Henry Autry in St. Louis ruled on March 31 that the mask can remain with the art museum.

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