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How Fascism Complicates the Beauty of Italian Postwar Photography
NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 presents an intricate survey on how photography changed (or didn't) during Italy's transition from Fascism to democratic capitalism.
Zachary Small
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Tumblr’s New Adult Content Filter Thinks This Bowl of Fruit Is NSFW
What do Batman, Garfield, and Big Bird have in common? They've all been marked for deletion by Tumblr's faulty new algorithm meant to censor adult content on the website ahead of its outright ban on December 17.
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Museum Creates Program for Families Suffering from the Opioid Crisis
Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone. For families hurt by addiction, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that uses art as a healing tool for those affected by the epidemic in a state that's ranked third in the nation for d
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Architects Reimagine Central Park After a Fictional Eco-Terrorist Attack
Competitors for the University of Pennsylvania's ICONOCLAST Design Competition were asked to design a post-apocalyptic Central Park after a fictional eco-terrorist attack left "Bill Di Blastoff" looking for a more democratic, ecological, and beautiful plan.
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Strand Bookstore Fights to Keep Its Building Off New York City's Registry of Preserved Landmarks
"By landmarking the Strand, you can also destroy a piece of New York history," Strand owner Nancy Bass Wyden said. "We’re operating on very thin margins here."
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As "Yellow Vest" Protests Rip Through France, Paris Museums and Galleries Close
The Arc de Triomphe was vandalized and had one of its sculpture's smashed by protesters while cars burned outside the Jeu de Paume and Orangerie.
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Artist Candice Breitz Calls for Refugee Aid Worker's Release After 100-Day Imprisonment [UPDATED]
Since August, Sarah Mardini — a humanitarian aid worker who saved refugees bound for Greece by pulling their sinking dinghy ashore — has indefinitely languished in a prison outside Athens.
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Senegal and Ivory Coast Will Request Large-Scale Return of Artifacts from France
"We are ready to find solutions with France," Senegal's culture minister recently said at a conference in Dakar. "But if 10,000 pieces are identified in the collections, we are asking for all 10,000."
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An Iconic Harlem Renaissance Frieze Is Crumbling in Brooklyn
Who will save Richmond Barthé's Depression Era frieze from crumbling into dust? The 80-foot-long sculpture was an ambitious public art commission by the gay African American sculptor, but now public officials are reluctant to lend a helping hand.
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French President Wants to Return Benin's Artifacts, But Will French Law Allow Him?
Emmanuel Macron's decision is a gesture of goodwill, but these objects comprise just 0.5 percent of the objects requested for restitution by the West African country.
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Betye Saar Washes the Congenial Veneer Off a Sordid History
Saar's work is a poignant depiction of this nation's fraught history of race relations and gender politics, and this exhibition demonstrates the need for more major retrospectives of her.
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For Americans, Social Media Bots Are Almost Indistinguishable from Humans
A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that 93% of Americans had little confidence in their ability to identify which social media accounts were run by real people versus bots.