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Six Artists Open Up About Voting in the US Election
Immigrants’ rights, reproductive freedoms, and funding for the Israeli military are among this year’s top issues.
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New Yorkers, Cast Your Vote Early at One of These Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and other cultural institutions are open for early voting.
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Ancient Maya City Discovered in Southeastern Mexico
Archaeologists derived the findings from data collected in 2013 as part of a forest-monitoring survey.
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Weatherspoon Art Museum Receives 270+ Works on Feminism and the South
Art and writings by Willie Cole, Saaya Woolfalk, and Tennessee Williams are among the $5 million donation from Greensboro artist Carol Cole Levin.
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UK’s Vagina Museum Renames Galleries to Honor “Mothers of Gynecology”
Three galleries are now dedicated to Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, three Black enslaved women subjected to experimental surgeries by disgraced physician J. Marion Sims.
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Maurizio Cattelan Banana Artwork Could Fetch $1M at Auction
The infamous fruit taped to a wall divided viewers and critics when it debuted at Art Basel in Miami in 2019.
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Plans to Turn Leonora Carrington’s Home Into a Museum Scrapped
The house and studio in Mexico City will now serve as a “documentation center,” according to the building’s owner, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
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Iranian-German Photographer Asked to Apologize for Saying “Free Palestine”
The German Photographic Society called Shirin Abedi’s award acceptance speech “dogmatic fanaticism” and “anti-Israeli agitation.”
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A Year After Record Floods, Gowanus Open Studios Returns
This year’s theme, “Gowanus Under Construction,” invited participants to reflect on the gentrification of the historically industrial Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford Among Recipients of National Medals of Arts
Japanese-American sculptor Ruth Asawa was awarded the honor posthumously.
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Patricia Johanson, Who Sought to Repair Ecosystems Marred by Humans, Dies at 84
The environmental artist’s innovative oeuvre spanned Minimalism, Land Art, public gardens, and more.
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New York Art Advisor Lisa Schiff Pleads Guilty in $6.5M Fraud Case
She could go to prison for up to 20 years for defrauding clients and artists.