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A Celebrated Librarian’s Concealed Life
Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.
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François Pain’s Art as Salvation
The artist’s avant-garde video works draw from his time working at an experimental psychiatric hospital in the 1960s–70s.
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A Trove of Unseen Artworks Expands a Writer’s Legacy
Recently discovered paintings, illustrations, and prints by Flannery O’Connor, hidden away for decades, are now on display at the author’s alma mater.
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Brooklyn Welcomes a New Center for Formerly Incarcerated Artists
Founded by formerly incarcerated artist Jesse Krimes, the Center for Art and Advocacy will host exhibitions and programs in a 2,600-square-foot space in Bed-Stuy.
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Judge Denies Motion to Block Trump’s Anti-Trans Arts Funding Bar
The ruling means the National Endowment for the Arts can continue to impose Trump’s “gender ideology” criteria on its grant applications.
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Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
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Organizations Lose Pivotal Grants as DOGE Takes Axe to Humanities Agency
Museums, libraries, and archives are receiving grant termination notices immediately halting funding for myriad arts and culture projects.
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Republican-Led Bill Would Penalize Texas Museums for “Obscene” Art
The proposed legislation comes after police seized photographs by Sally Mann from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Meet Bai Jo the Fish, Scholar-in-Residence at a Maryland Museum
The bubble-headed goldfish questions if only humans can be artists.
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What Does It Mean to Really Be Seen?
Perhaps Abraham Lincoln Walker invented these people and the stories that brought them together because he desired the play of recognition between human beings.
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Bruce Nauman Asks if Art Can Exist Without a Viewer
His art cuts to the core of our engagement with art past and present, looking at foundational interactions between viewers, art objects, and art institutions.
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Required Reading
This week: Joan Didion’s archive, Studio Ghibli AI, academia capitulates to Trump, Kaveh Akbar’s call to action, Buy Nothing Facebook drama, balloon wigs, and much more.