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Pink Posters Designed by Jeremy Deller Explain How Users Can Unfriend Facebook
"Click 'Delete My Account.' It's below the warning message in the middle of the page. Clicking it invokes a pop-up window."
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Researcher Makes Controversial Allegation of Archaeological Fraud at Renowned Turkish Site
Eberhard Zangger alleges that the prominent British archaeologist James Mellaart forged artifacts. The accusations are difficult to evaluate.
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Brazil Only Has One Jackson Pollock on Public View, and Now It's Being Sold
This is the first time a museum in Brazil deaccessions an artwork to pay off debt.
Art
A New Center in the Mile-High City Elevates Women's Contributions to Colorado History
The Center for Colorado Women’s History, which opened on March 21, is a helpful response to visitor demand for untold stories of local women.
Announcement
Visit the Yale School of Art’s MFA Open Studios, April 7–8
Studios are open to the public and located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven.
Art
How Pre-Columbian Art Influenced Josef Albers
The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: police raided homes in Belgium in connection with a collection of suspected forgeries, Shenzhen Biennale co-curator Gary Xu was fired following accusations of sexual assault and harassment, and Michelle Obama's official portrait was relocated due to overcrowding.
Film
Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsbourg Spar in a Haunting Love Triangle
French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin's latest, Ismael's Ghosts, offers a nuanced look at how women in mid-life grapple with fear and loneliness.
History
How New York Women, from Village Bohemians to Suffragettes, Won the Right to Vote
In 1917, female New Yorkers were finally invited to the polling booths. An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society argues this victory was largely due to the local activism of the bohemians of Greenwich Village.
Art
A Young Designer’s Pulpy and Surprisingly Personal Furniture
Thomas Barger, whose material of choice is colorful paper pulp, is part of a generation of adventurous furniture designers reshaping their field in the US.
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Miami's Pérez Art Museum Has Made Admission Free for Public School Students
Thanks to a Knight Foundation grant, Miami-Dade County Public School students can now visit their local art museum anytime, for free.
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At the University of Indianapolis, the Social Practice Art Program Builds a Community Network
Libraries, quilts, and instant cameras become transformative tools to enrich people’s lives.