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ISIS Destroys Two Gates in Ancient City of Nineveh [UPDATED]

Members of ISIS have destroyed two large gates in Iraq's ancient city of Nineveh, which once served as the capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire.

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ArtRx LA

LOS ANGELES — This week, painter Ed Moses celebrates his 90th birthday with a retrospective, an exhibition focused on artist collectives closes, an artist invites you to bring your projector for a one-night show of digital and video art, and more.

In Brief

J.M.W. Turner to Light Up the British £20 Note

J.M.W. Turner, the great English landscape painter who obsessed over light, will be featured on the new £20 banknote in the UK.

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Paintings Playfully Distilled from 18th-Century European Portraiture

Currently on view in the project room at ART 3 in Bushwick are a half-dozen canvases by Deborah Brown, consisting of figures, some based literally, others emblematically, on the portrait styles of various historical periods.

Music

Singing Along with Two Titans of Brazilian Music

My roommate once noted how I only sing in the apartment when we play Brazilian music.

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A Sci-fi Film Imagines a Dystopian Future for Palestine

MADRID — What do archaeology and science fiction have in common?

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ArtRx NYC

This week, take in open studios in Greenpoint and Lower Manhattan, visit an indie game arcade in Queens, listen to an experimental noise pop group play the soundtrack of Twin Peaks, and more.

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Plagued by Castrating Vandals, a Public Sculpture Gets a Detachable Penis

Heracles is famous for his sexual prowess, but one nude statue of him in a park in France will now largely go phallus-free.

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Greenpoint Open Studios Returns This Weekend with Over 300 Participating Artists

Brooklyn has a long-standing reputation for being a hotbed of creativity and Greenpoint Open Studios, happening this weekend (April 29–May 1), is going to represent its northernmost tip with more than 300 artists opening up their studios to the public.

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Cheery Skeleton Mosaic Found in Turkey Says, "Enjoy Your Life" [UPDATED]

Reclining by a wine jug and a portion of bread, a cup in one bony hand, the skeleton on a 3rd-century BCE mosaic discovered in Turkey has a simple message for its viewers: "Be cheerful, enjoy your life."

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When Honey-Coated Nude Performance Art Loses Its Sting

Madison Young isn’t the first woman I’ve seen pour honey on her naked body and, owing to certain lifestyle choices I’ve made, I have a feeling she won’t be the last.

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Iran Forces Jailed Artist to Undergo Virginity and Pregnancy Tests [UPDATED]

The Iranian artist sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison for her satirical cartoons critical of the Iranian government was forced to repeatedly undergo virginity and pregnancy tests last year.