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Yatika Starr Fields and the Imagined Barrier Between Art and Life
Informed by the legacies of Standing Rock and the January 6 insurrection, the artist grapples with ideas around site and his own agency.
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Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
This exhibition at the museum’s New York City location introduces new generations to one of the 20th century’s most innovative Native American painters.
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Affordable Art Fair NYC Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
The fair kicks off its 20th anniversary celebrations in New York with its Spring Edition, taking place in Chelsea from March 23 through March 27.
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This week, the oldest mummies in the world, whitewashing an autocrat, a useful reading list about Ukraine, SPLC released their new report on hate, seeking a new language around race, and more.
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Alone in the Dying of the Light
One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art.
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Redefining Anthropology as a Site of Creativity
Artist Maya Stovall questions the altruistic intentions of anthropology while also attempting to redefine the discipline as a site of creativity and community empowerment.
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Was Jacques-Louis David Really That Radical?
Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival.
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Elizabeth Glaessner's Wonderfully Weird Menagerie
The notion of stories, bodies, and selves that change incrementally and radically as they repeat pervades the mesmerizing world of Glaessner's Phantom Tail.
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After Surviving War, Mali’s Prized Manuscripts Are Now Available Online
"Mali Magic," by Google Arts & Culture, features 40,000 manuscripts that have survived the 10-month occupation and destruction of the city of Timbuktu.
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Archeologists Find Evidence of a "Lost" Continent Linking Europe and Asia
Fossils suggest that Asian mammals “invaded” Europe by crossing over a landmass that is now being called "Balkanatolia."
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The Ongoing Looting of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Heritage
Artifacts stolen from the Kotawehera Rajamaha temple in Sri Lanka are the latest victims of longstanding looting and trafficking.
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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Awards $1.3M to 255 Artists and Arts Orgs
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council also named 18 artists in residence at its new Arts Center on Governors Island.