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Enigmatic Patagonia Cave Art Dates Back Over 8,000 Years
The findings shed light on how societies coped with the changing unpredictable climate at the time.
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British Museum Hosts Runway Show With Parthenon Marbles as “Backdrop”
Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the institution’s decision to allow Erdem’s show demonstrated “zero respect” for the sculptures.
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Yale University Acknowledges Its Role in Slavery
Many of the school’s founders and early leaders enslaved Black and Indigenous people, Yale said in a public apology.
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Berlinale Film Festival Curators Join Call for Gaza Ceasefire
The Forum Expanded curators’ statement comes amid an ongoing campaign to boycott German institutions accused of stifling pro-Palestine voices.
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Could This Be Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss?
A Danish scientist-couple has pushed back the date of the earliest smooch by more than a millennium.
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Center for Book Arts Backs Out of Performance, Drawing Criticism
The New York nonprofit said Sister Sylvester's artwork was “too closely aligned with the current conflict in Gaza.”
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Disrupt Tania Bruguera Performance in Berlin
The Hamburger Bahnhof museum characterized the actions as “violent hate speech,” though Brugera stressed that they were non-violent.
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10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum
Around 300 people gathered at the museum to decry Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the suppression of pro-Palestine voices.
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Students Win $700K for Using AI to Decipher Ancient Roman Scroll
The 2,000-year-old scroll was buried in volcanic mud and ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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ArtTable Survey Sheds Light on Hardships Faced by Arts Workers of Color
Low pay, student debt, and discrepancies in negotiation more heavily affected non-White respondents.
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The Enigmatic Bolivian Artist Who Centered Indigenous Workers’ Rights
“Estaño Maldito (Cursed Tin)” (1937) is the first painting by Alejandro Mario Yllanes to enter a museum collection in the United States.
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Brooklyn Arts Nonprofit BRIC Lays Off 16 Employees
The staff cuts have impacted programming and prompted one executive to resign in protest.