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The call, by Ethiopia's ambassador for the UK, followed a suggestion earlier this month by the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum that the objects could be given on long-term loan.
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Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
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Studio highlights include: Ben Thorp Brown, Sharon Butler, Marsha Cottrell, Jerry Kearns, Mary Mattingly, Jeanine Oleson, and many more.
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The newly reopened galleries combine disparate instruments the world over, grouping them by time period and type, rather than dividing them into the cultures by which they were created.
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I'll gladly show up in my Sunday's best.
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The event will be held on April 26, 7:30-9pm, at Central Library's Dweck Center.
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A new typeface updates the nearly 200 century-old system by superimposing raised dots onto carefully configured letterforms, allowing it to be understood by both sight and touch.
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Ishmael Bermudez has spent half a century excavating the "Well of Ancient Mysteries," a tranquil and historic site, in the backyard of his childhood home.
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In her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Piper makes visible the ways in which we are held in place by other people and their perceptions, and how their perceptions lead to the politics and philosophies that make up our world.
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This week, Yayoi Kusama goes floral, the battle over US identity, considering David Goldblatt in Paris, Humanities problems, reviewing the Pioneers of African-American Cinema, and more.
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The fast food chain's mixtape We Beefin? explores an uncharted outreach strategy.
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Wong proceeds mark by mark without knowing in advance what will happen or where he will go.