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After a Lifetime of Rejecting Technology, Artist Tino Sehgal Falls in Love with Instagram
Tino Segal, famous for his "objectless" performances that are never to be photographed, is now on Instagram.
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MoMA Acquires Three-Year-Old Child’s Art, and Met Expands Construction Paper Collection
Plus, the Met acquires two works of construction paper basket car art, including a piece by Salvador Dalí.
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Archaeologists Discover World's Oldest Break-Up Letter at Neo-Babylonian Site
A tablet discovered this year, suggests that Neo-Babylonians may have been the first to start writing break up letters.
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Trump Announces Maurizio Cattelan’s “America” as the Throne for His Presidential “Library”
Plans are revealed in a flurry of tweets that follows a secret weekend trip to Saudi Arabia.
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In Effort to Cover Deficit, Metropolitan Museum Partners with Airbnb to Rent Period Rooms
The new initiative, dubbed "The Metbnb," will allow visitors to spend the night in the museum's historic rooms for a premium.
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NEA Unveils Program Pairing Artists with Leading Presidential Candidates
The National Endowment for the Artsis jumping into the heated US presidential race with a plan to appoint artists to cover the front-runners in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Newly Discovered Sketches Reveal Leonardo da Vinci Designed the First Drone
Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone.
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Louvre Announces Plan to Launch Satellite Space on the Moon
At a press conference this morning in Paris at the headquarters of France's national space agency, the president of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez announced that the museum plans to open an outpost on the moon by 2026.
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Syrian Refugees Win the 2016 Turner Prize
In a surprise announcement, the 2016 Turner Prize committee has bestowed the coveted contemporary art award on all the Syrian refugees who've left their war-torn country.
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Anish Kapoor Coats “Cloud Gate” in the Darkest Black Known to Humanity
Taking advantage of his exclusive rights to make artistic use of the high-tech, light-absorbing material Vantablack, the British artist Anish Kapoor has covered the entire surface of his Chicago public sculpture "Cloud Gate" (2006) with it.
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Fooling Around at a Participatory Performance Party
Last Wednesday, House of Screwball’s show at Bizarre Bushwick coincided with the annual, farcical opportunity provided by April Fools' Day.
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Brooklyn Museum Launches White Male History Month
In an effort to better reflect the changing demographics of its borough, the Brooklyn Museum is launching White Male History Month, a press release announced this morning.