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A New York–based artist trying to raise awareness about the ocean’s health is being accused of damaging it. Agata Oleksiak, the yarn artist better-known as Olek, traveled to Cancun earlier this month for an installation highlighting the ocean’s declining shark population, according to La Jornada.
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Humans of New York's Brandon Stanton has embarked on a 50-day photographic tour promoting the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, which seek to eliminate the number of people living on less than $1.25 by 2015, among other aims.
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Pro-Russian rebels have abducted an artist in eastern Ukraine, the International Business Times reported.
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After Donald Judd moved to Marfa, Texas in 1971, he quickly transformed the cow-town into the art world’s desert outpost, much to the chagrin of some locals.
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A big part of the art world is art history, and nowhere is that clearer than in the recent spate of exhibition revivals.
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In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to lend him the services of Harry Burton, a photographer then working for the Museum's Egyptian expedition.
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Traditionally known as the "first citizen of Athens," Pericles was a lover of art and literature, and a driving force behind the Parthenon's construction. Now, archeologists in the modern Greek capital claim to have discovered the statesman's wine cup, according to the Greek newspaper Ta Nea.
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Salvadorans can now enjoy art where their former leaders once wined and dined. Opting to live at home during his time in office, newly elected President Salvador Sánchez Cerén has turned the Presidential House in San Salvador's upscale neighborhood of Escalon into an art gallery, featuring works by
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Rome may be a mecca for Medieval art, but it isn’t every day that conservationists there discover a trove of long-lost frescoes dating to the 1240s.
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On July 17, a fishing boat traveled down China’s Huangpu River piled with 99 distressed stuffed animals. Camels, pandas, polar bears, leopards, and zebras clung helplessly to the dilapidated hull.
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When the United States joined the Allied forces in 1917, the mind of the American citizen was almost as much a battlefield as Europe was.
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Fifteen years ago, the Mexican-American artist Eduardo Sarabia traveled from his home in California to Guadalajara, the Mexican city where the most powerful drug traffickers’ families are rumored to reside.