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Child Damages Multimillion-Dollar Rothko Painting at Dutch Museum
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is seeking conservation expertise after a child scratched the surface of “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8” (1960).
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Exhibition at Children’s Museum Decolonizes Color
All That Remains spotlights mostly non-White artists who open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.
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The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
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The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism
Surrealism through Its Journals reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word.
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Amid Market Uncertainty, Expo Chicago Brings a Spirit of Hope
Paintings that pay tribute to the art of cosplaying, sculptures celebrating Mexican artisanship, and ethereal Korean ink drawings were among the standout works at this joy-filled fair.
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How a Tiny Crab Museum in the UK Stood Up For Trans Rights
Leaning on its expertise in biology, the museum said that “there are no binaries in nature” and called the recent anti-trans ruling “an abuse of science.”
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Puerto Rican Painter and NYC Arts Advocate Tony Bechara Dies at 83
His more than 50-year career balanced a meticulous abstract practice and a passionate commitment to underrepresented artists.
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Indigenous Humor and Resistance Shines at The Photography Show
The most striking works on view at this New York fair channel political urgency into personal explorations, embracing sincere introspection.
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NEH Calls for Proposals for Trump’s Bizarre Sculpture Garden
After slashing hundreds of grants for cultural institutions, the agency is opening applications for the president’s widely questioned “National Garden of American Heroes.”
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Required Reading
This week: colonial photography through a Diné lens, Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design, Canadian nationalism on the rise, Australian twins become a meme, and much more.
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Art Green, Uncanny Painter of Chicago’s Hairy Who, Dies at 83
The artist made the familiar farfetched, infusing his work with a comic quality and threads of Surrealism that reimagined universal motifs.
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Trump’s Top Envoy Says Palais de l’Élysée Looks Just Like Mar-a-Lago
Steve Witkoff is the laughingstock of the internet for drawing parallels between Trump’s Florida beach club and the ornate 18th-century French palace.