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How Art Helps Politicians Soften Their Image
Hande Sever’s latest installation explores how leaders in the US and Turkey have used visual art and film to project, modify, and erase history.
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How North Africans Negotiated Blackness at the Dakar 1966 First Black Arts Festival
Hundreds of artists, writers, and intellectuals convened at the First World Festival of Black Arts in apparent harmony, but it was also a stage for contradictions and paradoxes to be unpacked.
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Mysterious 30-Foot-Long Tunnel Found Inside Giza Pyramid
Scholars don’t know exactly how the 4,500 year-old-pyramid was built, but the new finding could offer valuable clues.
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Man Finds Well-Endowed Celtic Bronze Figurine
The tiny artifact, which was discovered by a metal detectorist, is now headed to auction in the UK.
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Art Orgs Mobilize Support After Turkey-Syria Earthquakes
Artists and cultural organizations have been contributing to the post-disaster relief efforts despite their own needs for support.
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Roe v. Wade Case Documents Fetch Over $600K at Auction
The archive, belonging to lawyer Linda Coffee, contains nearly 150 documents and letters related to the historic case.
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At the Outsider Art Fair, Passion Trumps Prestige
The fair fosters a welcoming environment for all those with an appreciation for art, regardless of background or technical know-how.
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Catch Autumn Knight’s Nothing #26: The Potential of Nothing is Everything at the Wallach Art Gallery
This experimental and multidisciplinary solo exhibition in New York City exploring “the sweetness of doing nothing” closes on March 12.
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The Africa Center Presents States of Becoming
Seventeen contemporary artists of the African Diaspora explore how movement and migration shape their artistic practices and lives. On view in NYC.
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Required Reading
This week, a Black Southern quilt collection is donated to a Mississippi museum, the fascinating AI-generated ceramic glazes, a map of Italian Fascist monuments, and can clothing ever truly be recycled?
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Can Brain Science Explain Why We Like Certain Artworks?
In a new study, researchers propose that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements.
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Peruvian Man Found With Mummy He Called a “Spiritual Girlfriend”
The man was caught carrying "Juanita" in a food delivery backpack.