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This week, satellite images capture lines of cars carrying Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, an Ethiopian painting looted by the British Museum, digitizing Urdu script, and much more.
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Arrowhead Made From 3,500-Year-Old Meteorite Found in Switzerland
The Bronze Age artifact is of an “extremely rare” kind, researchers say.
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San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Sues Architect and Contractor of Its New Pavilion
The museum says the $38 million pavilion required costly repairs that delayed its opening.
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An Italian Artist Who Took On American Capitalism
Mario Schifano moved nimbly among different modes and never settled into a style, which sets him apart from many of his contemporaries.
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Remembering a Pioneer of Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde
When White-dominated arts institutions would not offer them opportunities, Robert L. Douglas and other Louisville Black artists organized together to create their own art communities.
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Sarah K. Khan’s Feminist Take on a 16th-Century Cookbook
Her work brilliantly reframes age-old storylines from a Persian cookbook as modern allegories for female liberation.
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Christian Rogers’s Cruising Paradise
The artist’s solo exhibition Heaven on Earth is a fluorescent floral feast for the eyes.
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Divya Mehra Releases Canada’s Colonial Genies
Two colossal inflatable sculptures by the Winnipeg-based artist prod the colonial roots of economic and racial inequality in the country.
Film
The Israeli Filmmakers Who Shoot and Cry
Michal Weits's Blue Box, in which she grapples with her great-grandfather's role in the mass displacement of Palestinians, doesn't go quite far enough.
News
Academy Museum Workers Ratify First Union Contract
The news came just as the Hollywood screenwriters’ guild reached a strike-ending deal with studios.
Art
DC’s National Cathedral Unveils Kerry James Marshall Stained-Glass Windows
Titled Now and Forever, the new designs honor the ongoing pursuit for racial equality in a country built on systemic oppression.
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On Labor and Race in Great Depression America
Art for the Millions at the Met Museum foregrounds the perspectives of women and people of color in the 1930s in the wake of industrialized labor.