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Australian Museum Admits to Showing Fake Picassos
The works were displayed in a women’s restroom at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art.
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Shahzia Sikander Says No to Repairing Her Beheaded Sculpture
Her public artwork at the University of Houston was vandalized after anti-abortion activists called it "satanic."
Opinion
How Modern-Day Christian Iconoclasts Lost Their Heads
The vandal who beheaded Esther Strauss’s sculpture of the Virgin Mary in labor disregarded centuries-old depictions of the mother of God as just a mother.
Art
Käthe Kollwitz’s Profoundly Human Art
As images of violence have become more ubiquitous, it’s a devastating testament to Kollwitz's artistry that her works are still so moving.
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St. Louis Arts Center Scraps Pro-Palestinian Exhibition, Calling It “Antisemitic”
The show at Craft Alliance included a bowl with a keffiyeh pattern, watermelon imagery, and the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
Art
Why Are We Celebrating Dutch Imperialism in 2024?
An exhibition relishes in the opulence of the objects produced by Dutch globalism while disingenuously acknowledging its destruction on unpictured shores.
Art
Seven Women Offer Alternative Ways of Relating to the Earth
These artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Sudan, and Palestine use soil as a different kind of building medium in their works.
Books
Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History
A new volume of Hilary Harkness’s paintings enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories.
News
Artist's Monument to Women Beheaded at University of Houston
It’s unclear whether the attack on Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture is related to protests by anti-abortion groups, which previously denounced it as “satanic.”
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Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Shows
But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular.
Art
Inside Brooklyn’s Very Own Immersive “Clown Cult”
The bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe.”