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British Geologist Who Took Pottery Shards From Iraqi Site Gets 15-Year Sentence
Jim Fitton was found guilty of smuggling antiquities after 12 small pottery shards were found in his luggage at a Baghdad airport.
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National Portrait Gallery Announces Director’s Essay Prize Winner for 2022
This year’s winner, Dr. Tiffany E. Barber, will present a paper related to her award-winning essay in Washington, DC, on Friday, September 9.
Art
Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe
Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.
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Scenes From a Refugee Childhood
As a coming-of-age memoir during World War II, Zoe Beloff’s Reminiscences of a Refugee Childhood is a document of a generation rapidly fading from living memory.
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The Value of the "Anchor Artist"
Arts funding could better respond to the socio-political crisis of the day by identifying and supporting artists who are central to their communities.
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A Frightening Doc About the NYC Subway
End of the Line captures five years of failed efforts to fix the city’s disastrously bad train infrastructure.
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Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting
From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction.
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Donated Hans Hofmann Painting to Fund Social Justice Scholarship at Bennington College
The work, donated by TV and film writer and producer Norman Lear, will be sold to benefit the college’s “Art for Access” program.
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Getty Grants $1.3M to Projects That “Unlock Paper’s Material Secrets”
The LA-based foundation will fund a range of initiatives by curators studying prints, drawings, and other forms of graphic art.
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Caption a Kafka Drawing to Win a Copy of Franz Kafka: The Drawings
Judged by Judith Butler and Andreas Kilcher, those who submit the best captions to Yale University Press’s #KafkaCaptionContest will receive copies of this new book.
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How Ukrainian Folk Art Became a Tool of Resistance Against Russia
Ukrainian people have been using folk art, music, and traditions to resist the war and foster hope.
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Making Art in the Shadow of Grief
Erica Green’s textile exhibition Once They Were Red manifests an act of repair through humble materials, but the experience is one of surviving more than mending.