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A Beloved Keith Haring Drawing Will Go on Public View at Bard College
Bard College has announced a $3.2M endowment for the fellowship and the relocation of a mural Haring made on Professor Tom Wolf’s wall.
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19 Million Pages of Historic Newspapers Digitized by Library of Congress
The Library’s “Chronicling America” initiative has now expanded to include media from all 50 United States, Washington, DC, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Opinion
Should We Be Uncomfortable With Furniture in Art Galleries?
At first, seeing exhibitions incorporating home furnishings worried me, thinking they turn galleries into shops for luxury goods. But this concern is misguided.
Film
Parsley Brings a Haitian-Dominican Massacre to Light
Director José María Cabral’s intention to bring a horrific history front and center is much needed for a massacre that remains a footnote in Dominican society.
Art
The Hidden Labor of Exhibitions
Condorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently.
Art
How Artists in the Southwest are Drawing Attention to Wildfires
“Artists can provide visual stories as points of entry into conversations about the health of forests, and the destructive and healing aspects of fire,” says Saskia Jordá.
Art
Artist Slammed for Matching Instagram Photos to Open-Camera Footage
Critics of the project say artist Dries Depoorter is engaging dangerously with surveillance culture.
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Toni Morrison In the Spotlight In NY For Banned Books Week
The library is offering Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye for unlimited checkouts through October 31, accessible at in-person locations with a library card as well as online.
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Getty Pledges $3.1 Million For Preservation of Black Modern Architecture
The funds will go toward a new initiative from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Over 650 US Sites Renamed to Remove Anti-Indigenous Slurs
In recent years, local activists have pushed to change the names of federal sites featuring the dehumanizing “s-word.”
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New Research Says High Nile Water Levels Helped Build Giza Pyramids
Researchers have found new evidence to support the theory that builders transported materials on a now-dried-up branch of the Nile.
Art
For Kaari Upson, the Abject and Grotesque Were a Wealth of Inspiration
To see Upson's memorial exhibition at Sprüth Magers is to absorb the full intensity of the artist’s explorations of trauma, vulnerability, and abjection.