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Getty Apologizes After Exhibition Kick-off Event Injures Spectators
The event to kick off the museum’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative struck guests with falling debris.
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Second Man Buried Under Notre Dame Identified as French Poet
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Michigan State University Accused of Censoring Pro-Palestine Artwork
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Tehran Art Museum Reports 30 Missing Paintings
The artworks’ whereabouts remain unknown after the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum lent them in July.
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Amy Sherald Survey to Travel to DC’s National Portrait Gallery Next Year
With over 40 paintings, Sherald’s largest survey to date will mark the first solo show of a Black contemporary artist at the DC institution.
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NYC AIDS Memorial Celebrates David Wojnarowicz's 70th Birthday
A remembrance event on Saturday night, September 14, will include readings and a candlelit procession to the LGBTQ Memorial at Hudson River Park.
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Man Dies After Fall From Glasgow Museum Balcony
The Gallery of Modern Art was shuttered for the remainder of the day.
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Presidential Debate Memes So We Can Laugh to Keep From Crying
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MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Steps Down After 30 Years
His time at the helm of the New York museum is marked by protests against board members’ ties to fossil fuels, military violence, and mass incarceration.
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Second Man Sentenced for Forging Anishinaabe Artist’s Paintings
Eight people have been charged for forging and selling thousands of works by the late artist Norval Morrisseau, including his own nephew.
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Titanic Expedition Uncovers Long-Lost Statue of a Woman
A voyage to the famous shipwreck pinpointed the location of a two-foot-tall bronze replica of the Louvre Museum’s “Diana of Versailles,” last photographed in 1986.
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Visual Treats Abound at Independent 20th Century
Highlights include Lenore Tawney’s fiber work, Selby Warren’s mixed-media paintings, and Julia Isídrez’s ceramics.