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British Museum’s “Sexist” Roman Empire Meme Backfires Spectacularly
The institution’s take on a popular meme left social media users and art workers outraged and disappointed.
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The Legends, Luxuries, and Dreams of Imperial Mughal Ateliers
In Brush of Insight, Yael Rice charts a Mughal “visual economy” thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India.
Art
Scholar Mary Ann Caws on Women Surrealists and André Breton’s Ass
If you can name more than two or three women surrealists without using Google, the 90-year-old art historian has probably helped make that happen.
Art
A Maypole Dance for Dogs in Queens
Night and day converge, fantasy and reality, humans and animals, rigor and play in this exhibition that feels like a transportive and unfettered elsewhere.
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Rare Family-Inclusive Artist Residency Debuts in Colorado
Unlike most such programs, Anderson Ranch Arts Center has piloted a new initiative that supports artist-parents.
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Activists Throw Porridge and Spray-Paint “Cunt” on Queen Victoria Busts
The two protesters were arrested for the Glasgow action, which brought attention to food insecurity and the cost of living in the UK.
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The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: March 2024
Infamous affairs in art history, Harlem Renaissance icons, New York’s beloved escapee owl, and more art clues to puzzle over this month.
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Nonprofit Led by Laurene Powell Jobs Acquires SF Art Institute for $30M
Laurene Powell Jobs’s organization purchased the campus and its iconic Diego Rivera mural.
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Long-Lost Gershwin Sheet Music Discovered After Nearly a Century
A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon the full orchestral score for La, La, Lucille, the composer’s first complete musical.
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Brooklyn Museum and PEN America Accused of “Silence” on Gaza Ceasefire
Activists staged an action at the museum after filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster and writers Nikki Giovanni and Doreen St. Félix withdrew from a planned event in protest.
Art
The Medieval Dance Between Greed and God
Medieval Money, Merchants and Morality at the Morgan Library proffers example after example of the sad fate of those who hoard money.
Art
River Garza Shows Us What a True Land Acknowledgment Looks Like
The artist’s “landscape” paintings juxtapose imagery from Tongva culture with the architecture that was built over it, asserting an ongoing Indigenous presence.