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Elaine Velie
Elaine Velie is a writer from New Hampshire living in Brooklyn. She studied Art History and Russian at Middlebury College and is interested in art's role in history, culture, and politics.
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NYC’s Five Boroughs, Reimagined in Gingerbread
An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all.
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Vandals Destroy 30,000-Year-Old Indigenous Rock Art in Australia
The drawings, which experts say are irrecoverable, are of particular significance to the Mirning People.
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Philip Pearlstein, Whose Paintings “Rescued the Human Figure,” Dies at 98
Pearlstein made a mark on the course of art history by depicting unromanticized views of the human body at a time when such realism was unpopular.
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Artadia Increases Artist’s Grants in Response to Inflation
In a rare move, the organization will retroactively pay this year’s grant recipients to match the new prize amount.
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Photography Curator Arrested for Attempted Child Molestation
Efrem Zelony-Mindell faces charges of distribution and possession of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor.
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Vatican to Return Its Parthenon Marbles Fragments to Greece
Pope Francis called the works’ repatriation a “donation.”
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Cézanne Portrait, Hidden for 158 Years, Found Under a Still Life
The painting, discovered by a Cincinnati Art Museum conservator, might be one of the Post-Impressionist painter’s first self-portraits.
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An Unconventional Grant That Lets Artists Pay it Forward
The 15 initial winners of the Art Matters Foundation grant each choose another artist to receive the prize.
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Only 8% of UK Artists Come From Working-Class Background
A new study making waves in the UK finds that people from low-income backgrounds are less likely to become artists — but that’s always been the case.
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Six Films That Plumb the Possibilities of Prison Abolition
The shorts will be screened as part of XO & Struggle: An Evening of Abolitionist Cinema at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, New York.
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New School Strike Ends With Victory for Adjuncts
The administration met the union on all of its demands, including raises across the board and increased healthcare eligibility.