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Met Museum Hires Sotheby’s Staffer to Lead Provenance Research
After a string of high-profile seizures and controversies, the museum has tapped Lucian Simmons for the new role.
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Legislators Push Bill for American Jewish History Museum
The proposal would help transfer the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Required Reading
This week, the boundless creativity of Audrey Flack, filmmakers memorialize the Haitian Revolution, medieval women’s embroidery, talking dogs, and more.
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A View From the Easel
This week, studios in Chicago, California, DC, and New Hampshire.
Podcast
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising
From his fourth-floor Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, the artist talks Catholic icons, tin foil, and memories of fires raging outside the treasured safe space for the queer community in 1960s New York City.
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The Double Life of Aji V.N.’s Art
Aji’s bifurcated practice reflects his experience of living and working in two different worlds, India and the Netherlands.
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Is the Guggenheim the Right Place to Advertise a Beyoncé Album?
The museum’s façade has been the site of projections and demonstrations for everything from labor rights to World AIDS Day.
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Two Decades of British Women Artists Striking Back
Women in Revolt! is essential viewing for those keen to understand the evolution of British feminism from the 1970s to 1990s.
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The Fugitive Ghost of Ancient Greece’s Greatest Sculptor
Although his work is legendary in ancient Greek sculpture, Phidias himself remains fugitive, a blank space whose outlines can be discerned in the copies of his works.
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Artist Crushes Tesla With Colossal Olmec Head Sculpture
Chavis Mármol told Hyperallergic that he wanted to “crush an object that represents a sinister figure like Elon Mollusk.”
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Murdered Art Dealer Brent Sikkema’s Ex-Husband Arrested in New York
Brazilian prosecutors are pursuing Daniel Sikkema in connection with the gallery owner's stabbing in Rio de Janeiro.
Art
Lesia Khomenko Distills the Resolve of Ukrainians
Khomenko forcefully responds to her war-torn Ukrainian homeland with complex compositions, lavish and varied brushwork, and avidity for color.