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Trump Officials Take Down Memorial to Gun Violence Victims
The display at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, DC, featured portraits of nearly 120 people, including children killed in mass school shootings.
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Maine College of Art & Design’s 2025 MFA Visiting Artist Summer Lectures
Graduate candidates work with a roster of renowned visiting artists during an eight-week summer intensive for MECA&D’s MFA in Studio Art.
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Art Institute of Chicago President on Leave After Stripping on Plane
The museum confirmed that James Rondeau is currently under investigation.
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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Never Backed Down to the Art World
The trailblazing Afro-Indigenous sculptor’s life and everlasting impact are the subject of a long-overdue retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Eadweard Muybridge and the Making of the Motion Picture
A new comic book is as much a social history of photography and its relationship to culture during the 19th century as it is one man’s life story.
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At Home With the Last Heir of a Pissarro Painting Looted by Nazis
David Cassirer reflects on his family, their legacy, and the work at the center of a serpentine legal case that has wound up and down the US court system for the last 25 years.
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New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.
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Dara Birnbaum, Video Art’s “Wonder Woman,” Dies at 78
The feminist artist probed, mimicked, and remixed mass media to explore how information is disseminated, transformed, and assimilated.
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Judge Halts Trump’s Cuts to Museum and Library Funding Agency
The temporary ruling comes as Trump moves to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowments of the Arts and Humanities in a newly released budget proposal.
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The Best Signs and Art of This Year’s Massive May Day Protests
From criticism of mass deportations to hilarious roasts of the president, May 1 was a nationwide show of art-filled resistance against the Trump administration.
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Meet the Next Changemakers in Art & Design at Parsons Festival
The annual series of free exhibitions, symposia, open studios, and runway shows featuring innovations in art and design is finally here.
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10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more.