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Archaeologists Discover World's Oldest Break-Up Letter at Neo-Babylonian Site
A tablet discovered this year, suggests that Neo-Babylonians may have been the first to start writing break up letters.
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Trump Announces Maurizio Cattelan’s “America” as the Throne for His Presidential “Library”
Plans are revealed in a flurry of tweets that follows a secret weekend trip to Saudi Arabia.
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An Artist Works to Break Down the Walls Between a College and Its Community
What does it mean for an artist to be invited into an institution of higher learning to engage in conversations about safety, community, and change?
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Required Reading
This week, choosing ethics over aesthetics, Barnett Newman paintings in Amsterdam, shocking immigrant detention photos, Presidential logos, and more.
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Solange, Captured Mid-Dream
Conceived as a musical map of Houston, Solange's hometown, When I Get Home wanders from mood to mood, arrangement to arrangement, a soundscape as cityscape, where songs correspond to locations and melodies merge with memory.
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Ben Morgan-Cleveland’s Dispirited Words
Isn’t this the last thing we want to admit? That we are not sure what anything means or what we are supposed to do?
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Anton van Dalen’s Valuable Lessons
Using simple means, often just pencil and paper, van Dalen has made careful, painstaking images of cyborgs, pigeons, and war machines.
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John and Yoko’s Wedding Album, Once an Oddity, Now an Icon
An unlikely element of Lennon and Ono’s late-1960s peace campaign was an aural selfie, ahead of its time.
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Sarah Cameron Sunde's Immersive Performances
The artist seeks to address the severed relationship between the landscape and the viewer.
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Claire Sherman's Leafy Canvases
Sherman's paintings offer a captivating tension between movement and stasis.
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Nina Katchadourian Makes a World on an Airplane Seat Tray
Katchadourian excels at investing commonplace, inanimate objects with vitality and soulfulness.
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Week 2 of Whitney Protests: Freedom Songs for the Unliberated
"They're singing songs about liberation, just be aware." said one guard over his walkie-talkie — a message that could be heard throughout the lobby.