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A Rooftop Installation at the Metropolitan Museum Considers Manhattan’s Prehistory
This summer's rooftop installation by French artist Pierre Huyghe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art digs into the primordial history of Manhattan.
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Artist Imprisoned in Abu Dhabi Over Facebook Post
An artist was imprisoned in Abu Dhabi this week, but not for political activism, or any other reasons you might expect.
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French Museum Authority Confirms Worker Death at Louvre Abu Dhabi Site
The Agence France-Muséums has confirmed reports, brought to light recently by the activist and artist group Gulf Labor, that a 28-year-old Pakistani worker died on June 8 at the construction site of the new Louvre Abu Dhabi museum.
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Beautiful Roman Frescoes Uncovered in the South of France
PARIS — In the Bouches-du Rhône in Arles, archaeologists have uncovered a sumptuous ancient treasure in what remains of a Roman villa dating from the 1st century BCE.
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A Bestiary for the Magnificently Wrong Monsters of Medieval Times
Beyond the borders of maps, where the limits of exploration fell to imagination, medieval artists and authors created monsters.
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Seven Museums Each Tackle a Deadly Sin
The Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance (FWMA), a recently formed consortium of museums located just north of New York City, chose to inaugurate its new partnership with simultaneous exhibitions designed to address a widely known if archaic catalogue of human foibles known as the Seven Deadly Sins
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Number of sites on the Unesco World Heritage "Danger List" after the recent addition of places in Iraq and Yemen = 48
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An Altarpiece in Guatemala Gets a New Life
ANTIGUA, Guatemala — The Cathedral of San Francisco in the colonial town of Antigua, Guatemala, was first built by the Spanish in the 16th century, but it’s as alive today as a center of worship as it ever was.
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A New Project Seeks to Erect Statues of Historic Women in Central Park
Out of the 29 statues now in the park, not one is of a real woman.
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A Twitter Bot That Generates Beautiful, Imaginary Moths
For centuries, devoted lepidopterists such as Vladimir Nabokov have painstakingly gathered and catalogued hundreds of winged arthropods, building impressive collections in glass cases that display moths' myriad variations.
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Two Chicago Writers Respond to the Art of Archibald Motley
CHICAGO — An event at the Chicago Cultural Center brought together two strands of African-American culture in Chicago: the wide-ranging exhibition of paintings by Archibald Motley, and an hour of readings by two African-American Chicago writers, Latoyah Wolfe and Eric May.
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From Ancient Myth to Contemporary Politics, Utopia's Dangerous Lure
In her exhibition titled Jauja at Y Gallery, Manuela Viera-Gallo uses the legend of Jauja as a platform from which to examine both the political and mythological ramifications of an idealized fantasy world.