Some participants who are leaders of art nonprofits say they were excluded from the state’s COVID-19 relief funds for small businesses.
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The World’s Oldest Home Unearthed in South Africa
The findings at Wonderwerk Cave are huge for paleoanthropology, which seeks to understand human evolution.
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A Rare, Looted Statue of a Greek Goddess Has Been Returned to Libya
The 2,000-year-old statue, believed to depict Persephone, is impeccably preserved.
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“Strike MoMA” Shines Spotlight on Trustee’s Connection to Toxic Gold Mine
Activists condemned Gustavo Cisneros, husband to trustee Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, for his connections to mining in the Dominican Republic.
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NYC Launches a $25M WPA-style Recovery Program for the Arts
The City Artist Corps, is expected to create jobs for more than 1,500 artists in NYCmore than 1,500 artists in NYC
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You Can Now Report Stolen Art Using Interpol’s New App
Users can browse more than 50,000 objects reported stolen or upload their own images to check whether a work has shady provenance.
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A Roman Emperor and His Finger, Separated for 500 Years, Finally Reunited
The Louvre Museum has returned an index finger to a massive bronze of Emperor Constantine after it was long mistaken for a toe.
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227-Year-Old Prototype for First US Dollar Sold at Auction
The experimental dollar from 1794, featuring Lady Liberty with flowing hair, laid the groundwork for the first silver dollars, coined the same year.
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Week in Review: Activists and MoMA Clash Over Protest; National Gallery Lays Off Retail Staff
Also, Indigenous petroglyphs in Utah have been defaced with a white supremacist slogan, and more.
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Santa Fe Gets an Art Space Dedicated to Virtual and New Media Art
The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation opened the 3,500-square-foot space with exhibitions spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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Smithsonian Digitizes the Vast Archive of Artist Charles White
More than 17,000 items make up this collection of photographs, writings, correspondence, and biographical material from 1933 throughout the artist’s life.
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The National Gallery of Art Laid Off Its Entire Retail Workforce
The museum is outsourcing jobs in its retail shops to Event Network, a company that manages museum stores nationwide.