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Check Out These Award-winning Works From the Leica Women Foto Project
Series by Matika Wilbur, Karen Zusman, and Anna Boyiazis were selected for the second annual award, announced today on International Women’s Day.
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Archaeologists Find Ornate Chariot Preserved in Ash From Mount Vesuvius
The unique chariot includes elaborate scenes on rear medallions that refer to Eros, leading researchers to theorize that it could have been a chariot used for marriage rituals or processionals.
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Activists Paint Names of Femicide Victims Outside of Mexico’s Presidential Palace
Ahead of a massive march for International Women's Day, the palace was covered with names and messages like “Trans women are part of my struggle.”
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Required Reading
This week, looted art from Afghanistan, colonizing Mars, Lorraine O'Grady in the spotlight, the notion of the "Muslim world," Fox News as propaganda, and more.
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Art That Goes With the Floe
Works by 10 artists have been installed on an ice floe in arctic Sweden where they will remain until the ice melts and they sink into the sea.
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Mario Schifano’s Greatness
To say the exhibition "Facing America: Mario Schifano 1960–65" is an eye opener hardly does it justice.
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Vicky Colombet’s Vision of Endless Change
By titling her exhibition "From the Floating World," Colombet connects with the Japanese belief that one must live in the moment, yet remain detached from material needs and desires.
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A Film That Tests Assumptions About Race, Rape, and Power
"Test Pattern" chronicles a biracial courtship and coupledom as a means of probing larger power asymmetries.
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Thomas Gainsborough’s Quietly Passionate Portrait
Margaret Gainsborough was a woman who knew her own worth.
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When Abstraction Exploded in Form and Meaning
Can non-representational art reflect social change?
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Nazi-looted Watercolor by Egon Schiele, Belonging to Artist's Dentist, Will Be Returned to Heirs
Germany’s advisory commission on Nazi-looted art also recommended the return of a painting by Erich Heckel to the heirs of Jewish journalist Max Fischer.
Books
A Glorious, Visceral Reissue of a Carolee Schneemann Artist Book
Produced under the artist’s supervision, this version of Parts of a Body House Book raises fascinating questions about what it means to reproduce something originally so handmade.