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Museums Partner to Establish Palestine’s First Textile Conservation Studio
The Palestinian Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum received a $480,000 grant to conserve Palestinian textiles.
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Rome’s New Cooking Museum Invites Visitors to Feast With Their Eyes
The oldest mass-printed cookbook, 500-year-old recipes from a pope's private chef, and varied displays of chocolate molds will go on view in May.
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Two Employees Stabbed at New York's Museum of Modern Art
Police is searching for the suspect, a former MoMA member who attacked two employees at the museum.
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Ukrainians Wage a Meme War Against Russia
An outpouring of memes is helping Ukrainians cope through humor that often spills over into dark satire.
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Yatika Starr Fields and the Imagined Barrier Between Art and Life
Informed by the legacies of Standing Rock and the January 6 insurrection, the artist grapples with ideas around site and his own agency.
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Required Reading
This week, the oldest mummies in the world, whitewashing an autocrat, a useful reading list about Ukraine, SPLC released their new report on hate, seeking a new language around race, and more.
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Alone in the Dying of the Light
One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art.
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Redefining Anthropology as a Site of Creativity
Artist Maya Stovall questions the altruistic intentions of anthropology while also attempting to redefine the discipline as a site of creativity and community empowerment.
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Was Jacques-Louis David Really That Radical?
Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival.
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Elizabeth Glaessner's Wonderfully Weird Menagerie
The notion of stories, bodies, and selves that change incrementally and radically as they repeat pervades the mesmerizing world of Glaessner's Phantom Tail.
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After Surviving War, Mali’s Prized Manuscripts Are Now Available Online
"Mali Magic," by Google Arts & Culture, features 40,000 manuscripts that have survived the 10-month occupation and destruction of the city of Timbuktu.
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Archeologists Find Evidence of a "Lost" Continent Linking Europe and Asia
Fossils suggest that Asian mammals “invaded” Europe by crossing over a landmass that is now being called "Balkanatolia."