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A 20-page long application, $700 fee and the requirement to know the answers to roughly 100 questions spanning the course of U.S. history — the naturalization process for those seeking U.S. citizenship is arguably difficult. Yet hundreds of thousands of lawful permanent residents, such as green card holders, take the naturalization exams each year in a bid to become American citizens.

Now one museum in New York is hoping to make that process just a little easier for green card holders living in the city.

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American museums — their boards, their staffs, the people who visit them — are far more white than the American population as a whole. It's a problem that can affect museums' bottom lines, but it also seems to be in direct contradiction with many of these institutions' missions to spread knowledge and wonder far and wide.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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My third worst fear—after kidney stones and nuclear war—is getting yelled at by a museum security guard. Maybe I'm a weenie, but I dread the unique embarrassment that comes from trespassing against our culture's hallowed protectors.

Thankfully, I'm not any of the following people.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most iconic museums in the world. Nestled into the eastern side of Central Park, it epitomizes uptown grandeur while offering a world-class art collection visitors on a sliding scale donation. Covering over two million square-feet, the Met features 5,000 years worth of art.

Given the size of its permanent collection, its wide-ranging exhibitions, and its two other museums the Met Breuer and the Met Cloisters, the Met is impossible to cover in one visit and you should plan your trip ahead of time.

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For more than four decades, muralist William Walker’s oil painted facade of the Strangers’ Home Missionary Baptist Church presided over Chicago’s Evergreen Avenue. In the mural, shadowy upturned faces melted into one another, their permanent gaze fixed on four central figures. The technicolor foursome, hands entwined, embraced under a white dove and symbols of the world’s major religions.

Juarez Hawkins, a Chicago-based artist, teacher and curator of current William Walker exhibit “Urban Griot,” called it Walker’s “Sistine Chapel.”

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Most people walk around art museums to look at the art. But I often find myself reading the small blocks of text that accompany each piece, scanning for clues about the life and times of the person whose visage I’m looking at.

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When most people are ringing in the new year, a museum security official will be waiting for his phone to ring.

At midnight, the $10 million reward for information leading to the recovery of 13 pieces of art that were stolen from The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 will expire, but the museum’s director of security Anthony Amore is hoping a tipster will make his year.

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Hospital patients expect that the medicine doctors give them will improve their health. But it’s possible that the nondescript painting of a country house, or an idyllic landscape hanging on a nearby wall, may also be part of the prescription.

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Many Mayo Clinic doctors, nurses and other employees will be free to roll up their sleeves and show their ink in 2018 with a new policy allowing tattoos to be visible.

Mayo Clinic is loosening up its "Dress and Decorum Policy." Currently, employees with tattoos are supposed to keep them covered at work or face discipline.

That will change on Jan. 1.

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Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh’s irises and other great works. What they don’t see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thousands in Southern California had to evacuate as multiple fires raged in recent days, one of which came within thousands of feet of the museum.