News
Humanity's Origins Got Pushed a Million Years Back
A new technique developed by scientists found that the earliest human fossils in South Africa are much older than we thought.
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Orlando Museum Leaders Resign Amid Fake Basquiats Scandal
The museum's interim director and board chair both left their posts in one week.
Art
The British Museum Takes the Feminism Out of Feminine Power
The realities of women’s lives are conspicuously absent from the British Museum's Feminine Power, a show about the feminine.
Art
Home Is a Mindset for a Nomadic Artist
Carlos Bunga's architectural installation in the Reina Sofía's Crystal Palace creates the facade of stability and strength yet is actually ephemeral and even fragile.
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Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment
From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies.
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Vandals Ransack Sculpture Residency in Upstate New York
Attackers smashed windows, destroyed equipment, and damaged artworks that were slated for an upcoming charity auction at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY.
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Stanley Museum of Art Opens Homecoming, the First Show in Its New Building
This exhibition at the University of Iowa’s museum features some 500 artists, from works by household names like Pollock and Motherwell to art that has rarely, if ever, been shown.
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Mural Arts Philadelphia and Mural Arts Institute Present Arts + Environmental Justice Symposium
The two-week, multi-city series of virtual, hybrid, and in-person events explores transformative work at the intersection of community-based cultural practice and environmental justice.
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An Important Interactive Exhibition That Doesn't Work
The exhibition Shall Make, Shall Be at Manhattan’s Federal Hall wants to educate us critically about the Bill of Rights amendments, but nearly half of the displays are dysfunctional.
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A New Mexico Arts Festival Goes Full Immersive
The site-specific, high-tech, experiential festival is coming back to the streets of Taos.
Books
London's History, Washed Up on the Shores of the Thames
Author Malcolm Russell's novel approach to history — finding it as it washes up on the riverbanks — makes the past seem very much alive.
Opinion
UK Welcomes Restitution, Just not Anti-Colonialism
“The work of cultural restitution must be about what we give up, not just what or how we give back,” writes Dan Hicks in response to Arts Council England’s new restitution guidelines for museums.