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Beirut’s Sursock Museum Reopens After Deadly Port Explosion
The museum was forced to close for nearly three years after suffering extensive damage during the blast of August 4, 2020.
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Jon Pylypchuk Exorcises His Ghosts
Mortality has long been a theme for the irreverent artist, but his most recent show at California’s ArtCenter College of Design deals with specific losses and loves.
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What Would a World Without Genocide Look Like?
Reparations of the Heart prompts the question: Where would diaspora Armenians and other SWANA communities be if the Armenian Genocide had never happened?
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“Like a Homecoming”: Gary Simmons Exhibition Opens at MCA Chicago
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy surveys the artist’s career in exposing legacies of race and class in US popular culture.
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Searching for Warhol’s “Cum”
Welcome to Alchemy, in which artists with famous names mix strange substances together with outcomes of variable interest.
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Florence Museum Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over Image of "David"
A court ruled that Edizioni Condé Nast used a photograph of Michelangelo's sculpture "insidiously and maliciously” in a magazine cover.
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Chrysler Museum Asked to Return Allegedly "Stolen" Statue
The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association claims that Peter Stephenson's "Wounded Indian" was stolen from its collection in the 1950s.
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Did the British Museum Cut Ties With Its Oil Sponsor?
News that the museum has not renewed contracts with oil giant British Petroleum is being hailed by climate advocates as a "massive victory."
Interview
Tara Asgar Embraces Freedom in Sadness
The Bangladeshi artist, asylum seeker, and LGBTQ+ activist muses about trans queer survival and the unparalleled joy of taking walks near the ocean.
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Dreaming in the Afternoon Light
Through her attention to detail and light, Hannah Lee transforms a banal view into something uncanny.
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SITE Santa Fe Opens Bruce Nauman’s First Solo Exhibition in New Mexico
His Mark features a collection of new and recent video installations, including never-before-shown self-portrait work and 3D video.
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Required Reading
This week, memes as a love language, photos from Trans Prom, a museum cat named Indiana Bones, and what is a parm espresso martini?