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Slow Bodies, Racing Hearts: Lucía Vidales’s Paintings of Our Changing Selves
Pleasingly difficult to decipher, Vidales’s paintings evoke the paradoxes of a year defined by solitude.
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Ancient Cave Painters May Have Limited Their Oxygen for Creative Inspiration
Cavernous conditions and fire may have contributed to an “altered states of consciousness."
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First Online Slavery Database Gets a $1.4M Injection From Mellon Foundation
Enslaved.org houses millions of records related to more than 600,000 enslaved people and their descendants, emancipation activists, and enslavers.
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A Grant For New York Photographers Who Don’t Live in NYC
The Joy of Giving Something is offering a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant for photo artists.
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The Enchanting Visuals of Portuguese Fish Tins
The coastal country is known for its tins of fish, which are exquisitely illustrated with intricate engravings, vibrant hues, and bold fonts.
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Anti-Racist Activists Say They Used a Stolen Confederate Monument as a Toilet
White supremacy is shitty.
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The Louvre Digitizes 482,000 Artworks From the Depths of Its Collection
"The Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known," said the museum's director.
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Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece, Unrecognized for Decades, Is Acquired by Getty
“Lucretia” (ca. 1627) remained in private hands for centuries before it was recently rediscovered in a collection in southern France.
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Asian American Arts Workers Denounce White Supremacy in Open Letter
“We are exhausted, scared, grieving, and angry, and yet we persevere."
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An Anti-Racist Group Is Holding a Confederate Monument for Ransom
The group has pledged to turn a monument to Jefferson Davis “into a toilet” unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy meets its demands.
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Does Carbon Offsetting Really Address the NFT Ecological Dilemma?
Some applaud the crypto industry for finally acknowledging its impact, but critics liken offsetting to greenwashing.
In Brief
After Astronomic Market Boom, NFT Prices Plummet
On February 22, the average price of an NFT collectible was around $4,300; by April 4, it had dropped to about $1,400.