Art
See the Original 1958 Sketches for the Peace Symbol
Gerald Holtom's rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London.
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BANG! POW! SAD! Casting Trump as a Comic Book Villain
In R. Sikoryak's The Unquotable Trump, the President plays villain after villain in popular, pre-existing comic book series, each time rendered in the style of the original artist.
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Fight Misinformation with #DayofFacts
As a corrective to the perception that we are living in a post-truth reality, art, history, and science institutions around the world are sharing truths today through the social media hashtag #DayofFacts.
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A Group Gathers to Figure Out How to Get Artists Paid
On February 20, the Get Artists Paid alliance will meet in person for the first time, at Silent Barn, to discuss the lack of compensation for creators.
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An Online Catalogue for All 25,000 of William Henry Fox Talbot's Photographs
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched the first complete, digital catalogue for 19th-century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot.
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Rescuing Norman Rockwell's Progressive Legacy from a Right-Wing Cartoonist
The artist was no reactionary. He was a staunch liberal and a strong believer in an inclusive country.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Paris will build a wall of bullet-proof glass around the Eiffel Tower, Israel's culture minister shut down a nonprofit gallery for hosting an anti-occupation group, and the UK placed an export bar on a Parmigianino recently purchased by the Getty.
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An Artist Mends Cracks in the Sidewalk with Gold
Inspired by the Japanese practice of ceramic repair, artist Rachel Sussman mends cracks in our urban environment with gold as part of her Sidewalk Kintsukuroi series.
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An Exhibition Examines the Executive Order that Interned Thousands of Japanese Americans
Instructions to All Persons at the Japanese American National Museum looks back at Executive Order 9066, which was signed by President Roosevelt 75 years ago.
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After an Earthquake Destroyed a Museum, an Artist Stepped in to Fill the Void
New Zealand’s Lyttelton Museum lost its building five years ago, but Julia Holden is giving it a public presence through a project focused on local history.
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Writers Pay Tribute to John Berger at McNally Jackson Bookstore
Hyperallergic editors Jillian Steinhauer and Elisa Wouk Almino have organized a tribute to John Berger on Monday, February 20.
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A New Louise Nevelson Biography Picks Apart the Artist's Contradictions
Laurie Wilson, practicing psychologist and art historian, has penned a new biography of the ground-breaking artist Louise Nevelson.