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Chicano Park Murals, Neutra's Studio, and Schomburg Center Named National Historic Landmarks
This week, the US Department of the Interior designated 24 new National Historic Landmarks, including several vital art and culture sites.
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Remembering the Light in Dark Times: Dispatches from the Turkish Art World
Conversations with artists reveal a dark mood, and everyone is focused on one topic: When to leave? Where to go? What to do in the meantime?
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The Making of Antoine Bourdelle's Early Modern War Monument
An exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle reveals the process behind its namesake's beguiling monument to veterans of the Franco-Prussian War.
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Using Famous Paintings to Detect Early Signs of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
A research team found that a mathematical technique, when applied to artworks, could detect signs of neurodegeneration in the artist.
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Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.
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How Art and Law Can Work Together Beyond the Marketplace
On the one hand, the role of the art lawyer has been to lubricate the wheels of commerce. But this approach runs the risk of missing the most illuminating contributions to art law itself.
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A Running List of New York Galleries and Nonprofits Closing for the #J20 Art Strike
As the day of Donald Trump's inauguration nears, we're keeping track of all the New York City art spaces that will stay closed in protest.
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Francis Picabia’s Prescient, Painterly Promiscuousness
Thirty years ago, viewers may have found the dramatic shifts in his work bewildering; today it’s obvious that he was an artistic driving force of the 20th century.
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American Artists' Fraught Responses to the First World War
From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists' reactions to World War I.
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Crafting the Perfect Work Playlist
Music is an integral part of making art.
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Guerrilla Girls Find — Surprise! — that European Museum Collections Are Heavily White and Male
The Whitechapel Gallery has recently commissioned the feminist collective to create a new artwork that resurrects the 1986 Guerrilla Girls campaign “It’s Even Worse in Europe.”
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Austin Becomes Newest US City to Introduce Artist-in-Residence Program
The nine-month residency will have the artist respond to specific issues identified by a civic department.