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Artists Team Up With Venus Williams to Save Nina Simone’s Home
An upcoming benefit auction will include artworks by Adam Pendleton, Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, and more.
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At the Outsider Art Fair, Passion Trumps Prestige
The fair fosters a welcoming environment for all those with an appreciation for art, regardless of background or technical know-how.
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Can Brain Science Explain Why We Like Certain Artworks?
In a new study, researchers propose that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements.
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Museum Under Fire for Showing AI Version of Vermeer Masterpiece
One artist said the Mauritshuis Museum’s decision to display “A Girl With a Pearl Earring” made using Midjourney “highly unethical.”
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How Did a Moai Statue End Up in a Lagoon?
A newly identified sculpture in Easter Island found in a dried wetland intrigues researchers studying the Rapa Nui society.
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Ukraine Marks First Year of War With Banksy Stamp
The stamp also features the shorthand “FCK PTN!” in Cyrillic.
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NY Legislators Move to Rename Cuomo Bridge
A bill gaining bipartisan support would revert Mario M. Cuomo Bridge back to its original name.
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Did AI Help a UK Cabinet Maker Uncover an Original Raphael?
An AI company says its technology confirms that Raphael likely painted the “Flaget Madonna,” but not everyone is convinced.
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Smithsonian to House Repatriated Yemeni Artifacts
The National Museum of Asian Art will temporarily store the 77 cultural relics as looting and destruction of antiquities continues in the war-torn country.
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Florida Governor’s War on “Wokeness” Hits the Arts
An exhibition was canceled after the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota deemed works about diversity and inclusion “potentially offensive.”
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Seven Stamps to Inspire Letter-Writing
USPS Director of Stamp Services William Gicker shares a selection of standouts over the years.
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New Public Art to Honor NYC’s Second African Burial Ground
The burial ground resurfaced in 2006, when construction crews working on the New Museum’s extension found human remains.