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"We Are Safe, the Bomb Shelter Is Fine," Ukrainian Cartoonists Draw Under Siege

Notes from Ukrainians during the start of the Russian invasion.

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Calling For “No-Fly Zone” Over Ukraine, Artists Launch Hundreds of Paper Planes at Guggenheim Museum

"Protect the sky over Ukraine," read the flyers-turned-planes, created by a group of New York-based artists and activists.

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Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia

Artifacts found at the 40,000-year-old site suggest that powders of different hues and grain sizes were produced there.

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A Museum Is Using Its Erotic Ceramics Collection for Cancer Prevention

Visitors to the Museo Larco in Peru learned how to perform self-tests for prostate and testicular cancer by touching the genitals of replicas of pre-Columbian huacos.

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Paris Wax Museum Ditches Putin

The museum is considering replacing the wax, which has been damaged by visitors, with a statue of Putin’s nemesis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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The Brilliant Blooms of EJ Hill’s Painted Flowers

“I was sad and tired, so I decided to buy myself flowers,” Hill shares.

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Artists in Denver Invite You to Their Yards, Living Rooms, and Skating Rinks

From an art incubator wedged between a train station and stairwell to a roving space where you can skate and look at art, spaces in Colorado's capital are engaging new audiences through unusual means.

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The Art World's Tainted Love for "Discovering" Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan

There isn’t enough discussion about the institutional structures that led to the exclusion of underrepresented artists from art history in the first place.