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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Illinois, New York, and Connecticut.
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A Joyous, Sorrowful Archive of Birthday Messages for Lives Lost to Police
1-800 Happy Birthday takes a simple yet ambitious approach to the epidemic of racial violence.
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Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece, Unrecognized for Decades, Is Acquired by Getty
“Lucretia” (ca. 1627) remained in private hands for centuries before it was recently rediscovered in a collection in southern France.
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rafa esparza’s Lovingly Collaborative Portraits of Artists and Friends
rafa esparaza's paintings insist upon the rightful presence of brown, Black, and queer bodies in the white cube of the gallery.
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Activists Renew Calls for Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People
Philadelphia activists accuse the museum of lack of transparency in its proceedings to repatriate the crania.
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Ancient Antikythera Mechanism, the “World’s First Computer,” Is Reconstructed
The device, which is thought to predict planets’ movement, was found in the sea in 1901, salvaged from a wrecked merchant ship.
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Asian American Arts Workers Denounce White Supremacy in Open Letter
“We are exhausted, scared, grieving, and angry, and yet we persevere."
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Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for April 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for April 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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How Foreign Women Have Been Tokenized Since Ancient Roman Times
We can see the Atlanta shootings within an even longer history of desiring, dehumanizing, and discarding foreign women.
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An Anti-Racist Group Is Holding a Confederate Monument for Ransom
The group has pledged to turn a monument to Jefferson Davis “into a toilet” unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy meets its demands.
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Learn About Clichés-verre, an Obscure 19th-Century Image Reproduction Technique
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, and others employed the technique to share works with close acquaintances.