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The painting, which sparked a political scandal at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, was donated to MoMA by hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen.
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi is now claiming it owns the world's most expensive artwork.
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When Ira Aldridge took the London stage in 1825, he became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare's Othello.
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With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.
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The Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College acquired 85 Coptic textiles from the 3rd to 7th century Egypt, a rare gift that will be a teaching resource for its students.
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The institution has acquired a massive archive of Adelman's work, including his 1960s photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Margaret Z. Robson Collection is the institution's largest acquisition of its kind in two decades.
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The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia has received an anonymous donation of First Nations art and artifacts worth $7 million, a major return of indigenous heritage to the area.
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The 176 pixellated pictograms created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 "are the humble masterpieces of the digital world," according to MoMA curator Paola Antonelli.
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In addition to the historic gift, the museum will establish a center for the study of modern art from Latin America.
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Long before cardboard VR viewers, there were paper peepshows: pocket-sized stage sets with illustrated backdrops and paper cut-out scenes, which expand like accordion books to create an illusion of depth when you peer through eyeholes.
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Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons.