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This week, cultural events continue to help you process the election, from a discussion with Black Panther party members at the Queens Museum to a night of performances in the former Pfizer factory in Brooklyn.
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1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Portraits of the Dead Unearthed in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis at the site of the historic the historic Urfa castle in the southeastern city of Şanlıurfa found mosaic portraits of two men and two women.
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The Origins of Manhattan’s Tiny Plot of Precolonial Terrain
Alden Projects on the Lower East Side is marking 50 years since Alan Sonfist proposed reclaiming land in New York City for memorials to lost nature.
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ISIS Leveled Ancient Assyrian Ziggurat
New satellite images show that the 140-foot-tall mud brick structure was decimated, likely by bulldozers, over the last three months.
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A New Bookstore in Philly Offers Much More than Books
The Ulises bookshop, which opened this past weekend in Philadelphia, focuses on books as a lens onto contemporary art.
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'Truth & Vision': 20 Contemporary Realist Painters at the Delaware Art Museum
Through drawings and paintings of the figure, still lifes, and landscapes, the exhibiting painters draw inspiration from the canon — Renaissance painting, the Hudson River School, American Modernism — and advance realism as a critical mode.
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Searching for a Global New Feminism
An exhibition attempts to find the new feminism in work by artists from around the world. It falls short of its task but raises some questions worth asking.
Books
An Auteur's Enduring and Confounding Guide to Filmmaking
Robert Bresson's Notes on the Cinematograph, first published in 1975 and about to be reissued by New York Review Books, is not a manifesto or unified theory.
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An Artist’s Sticky-Note Project Spreads Post-Election Solidarity
Thousands of sticky-note messages have accumulated in the New York City subway, a moment of post-election solidarity evolved from artist Matthew Chavez's Subway Therapy project.
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A Campaign to Restore and Release Early American Films Directed by Women
Kino Lorber is crowdfunding an effort to rerelease more than a dozen movies made in the US by female directors between 1910 and 1929.
In Brief
American Institute of Architects Memo in Support of Trump Sparks Backlash from Members
The American Institute of Architects' post-election memo promising to work with President-elect Trump has been met with messages of protest from its 89,000-strong membership.
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Video Data Bank Celebrates 40 Years of Visionary Video
VDB TV: Decades, a five-part curated screening series, is now streaming for free at vdb.org/tv