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Faith Ringgold, Larger-Than-Life Artist and Storyteller, Dies at 93
She leaves behind a massive corpus of visually stunning works tackling race, gender, and social justice in the United States.
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Portraits of Love and Loss From Around the World
Queer love, single motherhood, and the devastation of the Russia-Ukraine War are just a few of the subjects explored by this year’s LensCulture Portrait Award winners.
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Late British Artist’s Whimsical Home Granted Protective Status
Discovered after his passing in 2019, Ron Gittins’s apartment is chock-full of inventive murals and artworks inspired by Ancient Rome and Egypt.
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Incredibly Preserved Frescoes of Trojan War Figures Unearthed in Pompeii
Rendered in the Roman Third Style, the murals feature visual illusions mimicking altars painted on dark, monochromatic fields of color.
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Lorraine O’Grady and Nicholas Galanin Named Guggenheim Fellows
The two are among 68 visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and art scholars receiving the prestigious prize.
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NYC’s Largest Trivia Event Returns to the Queens Museum
After a four-year hiatus, the Panorama Challenge is back for its 13th edition at the museum’s massive model of the city that was created for the 1964 World’s Fair.
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Court Orders Women-Only Exhibition to Admit Men
A male visitor sued Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art after he was denied entry to “Ladies Lounge.”
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Court Stops Iowa Art Center From Destroying Artist’s Land Installation
A judge ruled on Monday that the Des Moines Art Center must pause its planned demolition of Mary Miss’s “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” installation.
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Chechnya Bans Music Deemed Too Fast or Too Slow
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” are banned under the new restrictions.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum Appoints Tahnee Ahtone as Curator of Native American Art
A former Hyperallergic fellow, Ahtone joins the museum after serving as director and curator of the Kiowa Tribal Museum in Carnegie, Oklahoma.
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German Museum Employee Fired After Secretly Hanging Up His Own Painting
Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne terminated the 51-year-old artist and called in the police to investigate.
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A New Art Weekend Touches Down in New Jersey
More than 100 venues across the state will take part in the inaugural Garden State Art Weekend.