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Google Doodle Shares Artwork by 10-Year-Old Uvalde Shooting Victim
“I want people to be happy when they see my passion in art,” wrote Alithia Ramirez, one of 19 children killed in the Texas mass shooting.
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Dia Art Foundation Workers Seek a Union
“How can Dia, with its prestigious Board and reputation, justify paying us so much less than a livable wage?” one worker said.
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Get Ready for the New Emojis of 2022
Maracas, a jellyfish, a shaking face, and a WiFi icon are among the dozens of new emojis that could be approved this year.
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Charles Gaines Brings Trees Back to Times Square
Gaines’s sculpture “Roots,” encompassing seven sweetgum trees that were once native to the region, engages with the nation’s history of colonization and enslavement.
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Questions Arise After Gallery Shows White Artist's Photos of Black Suffering
Meghan Boody’s images were initially produced in 2014 for a gun buyback program in New Orleans, but some expressed concerns when the works resurfaced this year in the context of a for-profit exhibition.
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New Database Shows Which Museum Job Boards Post Salaries
The Equity in Pay + Pay Transparency Accountability Tracker also lists whether or not popular websites that advertise museum openings publish unpaid internships.
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Museum Removes Damien Hirst's Fly-Zapping Installation After Animal Rights Group Complaint
“Killing animals has nothing to do with art, it just shows the arrogance of people who literally will stop at nothing for their own interests,” a PETA representative said.
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The Deepest Images of Our Universe Are Here
NASA has released photographs taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, some capturing the ancient universe dating back 13 billion years.
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Met Exhibition Brings Back the Color to Ancient Sculptures
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reminds us, once again, that our view of the ancient world is whitewashed.
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Explosion Destroys Mysterious Georgia Doomsday Monument
The “Georgia Guidestones” attracted thousands of annual visitors and drew the ire of conservatives and conspiracists who deemed them “satanic.”
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As NYC Slashes School Budgets, Art Teachers Are Feeling the Squeeze
Approximately 1,200 district schools have had to decrease spending after Mayor Eric Adams cut funding by over $200 million.
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Climate Activists Glue Themselves to a Van Gogh at London Gallery
In another action yesterday, five members of the group were arrested after they glued themselves to a landscape painting in Scotland.