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After Protests, Penn Museum Vows to Repatriate Stolen Remains of Enslaved People
Students and activists have urged the museum at UPenn to abolish the Morton Collection and end use of data sourced from it.
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Ancient Cave Painters May Have Limited Their Oxygen for Creative Inspiration
Cavernous conditions and fire may have contributed to an “altered states of consciousness."
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ArtYard’s New Arts Complex Houses Exhibition Space and Theater
The interdisciplinary art center in Frenchtown, NJ presents transformative art, fosters unexpected collaborations, and incubates original new work.
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Google Doodle Celebrates the Metropolitan Museum’s 151st Anniversary
The GIF features rotating samples from the Met’s permanent collection, including the Unicorn Tapestries and a 19th-century guitar.
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Sarah Friedland Conjures the Distant Memory of Togetherness
Friedland’s films conjure a sense of heightened, almost spiritual attunement to a body’s movements.
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First Online Slavery Database Gets a $1.4M Injection From Mellon Foundation
Enslaved.org houses millions of records related to more than 600,000 enslaved people and their descendants, emancipation activists, and enslavers.
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A Grant For New York Photographers Who Don’t Live in NYC
The Joy of Giving Something is offering a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant for photo artists.
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In Myanmar, Protests Harness Creativity and Humor
As protestors use every possible tool to reject the coup peacefully, the use of art and humor has generated a collective identity in a country marked by social disparity.
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Early Cheryl Dunye and Other Movies You Can Stream Only on OVID
The underrated streaming platform is the only subscription-based home for these titles.
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After Backlash, VICE Removed Altered Photos of Cambodian Genocide Victims
VICE removed the photographs from its site after receiving a complaint from the Cambodian government.
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Mississippi Returns Stolen Remains of Chickasaw People in States Largest Repatriation
It is the largest return of stolen Native American antiquities in the state’s history.
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Inside the Board Room of the “Moral Museum”
The view from the top floor is very different.