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The Museum of Fine Arts Boston casts a look back at the vivid designs, political and commercial messaging, and documentary value of the postcard with an exhibit of 700 postcards drawn from an archive donated by Leonard A. Lauder.

New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum recently became accredited as the world’s first gay and lesbian museum.

From November 13, 2011 to February 12, 2012, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will host "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk," the first exhibition ever devoted to the celebrated French couturier.

Inspired by the works of authors like Jules Verne and H.G Wells, and grown out of the world of science fiction, steampunk has become a cultural phenomenon like that of the punk rock movement of the 1980’s or the goth movement of the 1990’s. 

The Costume Council of the Chicago History Museum is reviving their signature black tie ball for the first time in over ten years. Launched in the 1970s, the Council hosted the Donor’s Ball to help acquire new garments into the Museum’s costume collection

An enamel black-and-white brooch by Roy Lichtenstein that recalls his pop art designs. A bold gilt-painted necklace twisted into a bowtie by Frank Stella inspired by his sculptural forms and reliefs.

"Charles James: Genius Deconstructed" explores the history of couture fashion designer Charles James and why nearly 40 years after his death he is still a relevant force in the fashion world.

An exhibit of Edward Hopper’s paintings of Maine is breaking attendance records at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, but it’s just one of three top-notch shows at museums around Maine this summer and fall.

Jonathan Ive, the chief designer at Apple, has six of his creations in the Architecture and Design collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

An assistant museum curator who questioned the authenticity of a Leonardo da Vinci has been murdered - but before he died he left a code in his appointment calendar and a cryptic trail of clues.