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Nearly 100 Maya Masterpieces Are Now on View in New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lives of the Gods exhibition is the first major US show of Maya art in the last decade.
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How One Conservative City Supports Numerous Progressive Artists
Given Colorado Springs’s politics and hyper-conservatism, wouldn’t artists hesitate to make and perform work there?
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Reggaetonero J Balvin Named Hirshhorn Museum’s “Cultural Ambassador”
The Colombian singer has come under scrutiny in the past for what some consider to be his appropriation of Afro-Caribbean musical traditions.
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"Fair Wages Are So Chic": Workers Rally at Brooklyn Museum Gala
Union members protested the unsatisfactory proposal presented by the museum after nearly a year of negotiations at play.
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The NYC Exhibition Where Works Cost up to $75
Project Art Distribution's roving shows exuberantly defy the established art world order.
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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Austin, Dublin, Long Island City, and Los Angeles.
Film
New Documentary Looks at Artmaking Behind Bars
Artist Jesse Krimes served six years in federal prison, creating artworks while incarcerated using the bare-bones materials at his disposal.
Books
The Best Part of Mary Heilmann’s Memoir Is the Paintings
The All Night Movie recounts the artist’s experiences in New York’s art world of the 1970s and ’80s with a list of mostly bygone names and places.
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Part-Time Faculty at the New School Are Fed Up
The workers, who make up 87% of faculty at the school, are striking until “a reasonable contract” is reached.
Art
When Asian-American Artists Are Unburdened by Identity
Stanford's Asian American Art Initiative allows for a range of expression not usually granted to Asian-American artists — something especially refreshing in this rare moment of visibility.
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Relative of Hilma af Klint Condemns NFTs of Artist’s Paintings
Hedvig Ersman, the granddaughter of Hilma af Klint’s nephew, said the sale of NFTs on Pharrell Williams’s GODA platform “goes against the will” of the artist.
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Warring Gangs Wreak Terror on Haiti Artists' Village
Hundreds have been displaced and at least 15 killed in gang clashes at the Village Artistique de Noailles, famous for its metalworks cherished the world over.