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January 27, 2020

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Attempts to Reconstruct a Mummy’s Voice Are Cursed

Avatar photo by Michael Press January 27, 2020

After a group of British researchers claimed to synthesize the voice of Egyptian priest Nesyamun’s 3,000-year-old remains, it leads to questions about the ethics of Egyptology.

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Recovery Efforts Begin After Fire Ravages Museum of Chinese in America Archives

by Hakim Bishara January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Tens of thousands of unique cultural items were severely damaged. The museum launched a fundraising campaign, and Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to secure temporary locations for tenants displaced by the fire.

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A Podcast on Radical Women Unearths Rare Interviews With Alice Neel, Betye Saar, and More

by Alissa Guzman January 27, 2020September 30, 2021

This season of the Recording Artists podcast, hosted by Helen Molesworth, explores what it has meant to be a woman and artist through the lives of six iconic artists.

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Miller ICA Presents Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living

by Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

The exhibition covers the last 15 years of Zittel’s all-encompassing practice, where every material aspect of daily life is examined and her ethos for living guides all action. On view Jan 25-March 8.

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Yinka Shonibare’s Lady Justice Transcends Geography

by Ken Tan January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

With Justice for All — Shonibare’s contribution to Singapore Art Week — the artist represents the multiplicity of voices of a contemporary globalized society.

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CalArts Commissions Works by 50 Artist Alumni to Fund Scholarships

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 27, 2020

Artworks by the likes of John Baldessari and Carrie Mae Weems will be released in groups of 10 over a five-year period and sold to benefit a new scholarship endowment for the university’s School of Art.

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Powerful Images of Pleasure and Experimentation Celebrate Queer Bodies

by Caden Mark Gardner January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

MoMA’s screening series “Now We Think as We Fuck”: Queer Liberation to Activism argues for the inclusion of less respectable films in the queer canon.

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Artists, Designers, and Activists Address Climate Breakdown in a Pop-Up Exhibition

Avatar photo by Anna Souter January 27, 2020January 28, 2020

Depictions of Living imagines itself as an act of protest, touching on both the microcosm of individual actions and the macrocosm of the Anthropocene.

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Palestinian Photojournalist Loses His Eye After Being Hit in the Face by Israeli Tear Gas Canister

by Hakim Bishara January 27, 2020January 24, 2020

Attiya Darwish was hit while covering protests at the Gaza Strip in 2018. He is the second Palestinian photojournalist to lose an eye from an Israeli military attack in the last three months.

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10,000 Photos Document Alvin Ailey’s Groundbreaking Dances

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney January 27, 2020October 14, 2020

The collection of wonderful photographs, now online, chronicles the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1961 to 1994.

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