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Fall 2025 Art Books From Yale University Press
Exceptional exhibition catalogues for Man Ray and Hew Locke, a landmark Louise Bourgeois biography, Robert Rauschenberg’s writings, and more titles to delight and edify.
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Dismissed Philadelphia Art Museum Director Fires Back With a Lawsuit
The museum had commissioned an external investigation that recommended ousting Sasha Suda.
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Public Artwork by Shellyne Rodriguez Pays Homage to the Bronx
"Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx" honors the undefeatable spirit of the New York borough.
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Can’t Make It to The Met? Take a VR Tour Instead
The institution’s first foray into virtual reality offers free digital tours of the Temple of Dendur and its new Oceania galleries.
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Before Wonder Woman, There Was Fantomah
Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to ’41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life.
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Who Was Marie Antoinette Beneath All That Silk and Spectacle?
History has never really known her as a person, and that isn’t about to change here.
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The Algorithmic Presidency
Just as 20th-century fascists deployed radio and film, today’s ideological descendants use memes, social media, and above all, artificial intelligence.
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Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
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Call for Proposals: Roman Witt Residency at the University of Michigan
The U-M Stamps School partners with the U-M Institute for the Humanities to offer a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and the contemporary humanities gallery for installations and projects.
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Reinvent Your Practice With UMBC’s Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Program
Funding for tuition, healthcare, stipends, and summer research awards are available. Apply by February 1, 2026, to be considered for financial support.
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Made in L.A.’s Anti-Curation Doesn’t Work
The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.
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Coco Fusco Turns Back the Ethnographic Gaze
In her first US retrospective, she becomes museum specimen, interrogator, colonial queen, and more to expose the systems that produce them.