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King Tut's Dagger Is Actually from Outer Space
King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space.
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Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Battle Against War
A 5,000-year chronicle of human violence is the goal of illustrator Seymour Chwast's new book project, which follows his almost six-decades of antiwar art.
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Reduced Expectations
It's summer.
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The Conflict Around Diversity at the American Alliance of Museums
This year's AAM (American Alliance of Museums) conference, organized under the theme “Power, Influence, and Responsibility,” made a significant effort to meaningfully engage with issues of diversity and the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations.
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The Pleasures and Risks of Ahistorical Curating
PARIS — In Carambolages, currently at the Grand Palais, we are plunged into the big, fuzzy, ahistorical world of anti-categories typical of the networked global economic order.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Syrian troops were accused of looting the ancient city of Palmyra after recapturing it from ISIS, Spain refused to extradite a suspect in the Knoedler forgery scheme, and artist Ciara Phillips paid homage to the razzle dazzle camouflage designs of WWI.
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Tax Law Too Lax? IRS Receives Results of Private Museum Investigation
Last November, Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) sent a letter to the founders of 11 private museums across the US to investigate whether the institutions operate in a way that benefits the public enough to warrant receiving tax-exempt status.
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Why Do We Care About Palmyra So Much?
Why recreate Palmyra's Triumphal Arch and set it up in Western capitals? Why perform European art music in the ancient theater? The organizers suggest that each event is a show of solidarity with Syrians, but these gestures — Western groups drawing attention to ancient remains, primarily for Western
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The Bushwick Art Community Gathers for a Group Portrait
Calling puppet-makers at Castle Braid, Myrtle Avenue storage unit-dwellers, cosmic puke sculptors, and Matthew Silver: The Bushwick Documentation Project wants you to gather for a group portrait this weekend.
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The Louvre and Musée d'Orsay Shut Down as Seine River Floods [UPDATED]
Record rainfall in Paris has caused intense and dangerous flooding of the Seine River to the extent that the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay are closing temporarily to safeguard their collections.
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Astronomers Attempt to Date Sappho's "Midnight Poem" Using the Stars
For centuries, scholars have mined the verse of Greek lyric poet Sappho, Plato's "tenth Muse," for clues about her life.
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The Deadly Comedy of the Israeli Border Patrol in the Cave of the Patriarchs
In 1994, an American-born Jewish settler named Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim worshipers in the Cave of the Patriarchs, an ancient building in central Hebron that stands over the putative tomb of Abraham, “father of multitudes.”