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From the River to the Bay Calls for Art as Resistance
While other Bay Area spaces have silenced Palestinian artists or remained silent themselves, a show at SOMArts Cultural Center asks visitors to take a stand.
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A View From the Easel
“My studio has tile flooring, which is forgiving when it comes to messes.”
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Required Reading
This week: The forgotten Bloomsbury artist, Margo Jefferson’s incisive criticism, Elon Musk’s daughter speaks out, the benefits of thinking about aliens, mental health coffees, and more.
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Australian University Scraps Show Featuring Work of Lebanese-Born Artist
Khaled Sabsabi was dropped from representing the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale last month on the basis of allegations about his work.
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Colorado Legislature Bows to Trump’s Demands to Remove “Distorted” Portrait
The president said the painting, which had hung in the state’s capitol since 2019, was “truly the worst.”
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A Glimpse of Eternity at the Carnegie Museum’s Hall of Architecture
The assembling of these plaster casts of masterpieces more than a century ago must be understood as a work of art in its own right, a bizarre and beautiful triumph.
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A Brazilian Artist’s Intergalactic Wool Paintings
In A Head Full of Planets, Madalena Santos Reinbolt’s art celebrates her own identity and homeland, despite her marginalized status as a Black woman from rural Brazil.
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Artists Look to Sufism for Echoes of the Divine
From qawwali nights in Brooklyn to diasporic sculptors, contemporary artists are expanding and remixing Sufi traditions while honoring their roots.
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Archaeologists Reconstruct the Scents of Ancient Mummification
A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains.
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What The Frick Changed?
The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age mansion reopens next month, bringing its world-famous collection of works by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt back on public view.
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The “Signalgate” Memes Have Entered the Chat
Users are lampooning government officials’ flippant discussions of a deadly assault with no apparent knowledge of the journalist in the room.
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The Making of a Feminist Audio Guide at The Met
Curator Iris Moon knew she wanted to bring the voices of Asian-American women into Monstrous Beauty, and an audio guide provided the perfect platform.