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As COVID Cases Surge in NYC, Some Museums Are Lifting Their Mask Mandates
The Whitney and MoMA are the first two major art museums to stop enforcing masking and vaccination.
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Why the Columbus Monument in Santo Domingo Still Stands
To displace the bronze statue would be to destabilize the very idea of nation and surrender the coveted allure of primacy in the Americas.
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During Clandestine Performance, Artist Kisses and Licks 30 Pre-Hispanic Objects in Mexico City Museum
Pepx Romero’s performance was a response to multiple auctions of pre-Hispanic works over the last few years.
Art
A Renaissance of Mexican Cumbia, Through the Eyes of a Fan
Toño Estrada’s personal archives paint a rare portrait of a brief and beautiful period of Mexican cultural creation.
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2,000 Artists Will Receive $355 a Week Under Ireland’s New Basic Income Program
Applications open tomorrow for the new pilot initiative, which will give a weekly stipend to selected artists for three years.
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Transformation and Dreams in Dorothea Tanning's Later Work
As Tanning took up midcentury painterly abstraction, key philosophical themes from her earlier phantasmal narrative paintings undergo transformations and reiterations.
Art
Kalup Linzy Bought a House and He's Sharing It With Artists
Queen Rose Art House is newly alive in Tulsa's historic Kendall Whittier neighborhood.
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A Century of the Artist's Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist's Mind
The studio is a place of self-mirroring, self-haunting, a space where the artist plays out the day-to-day reality of the fantasy of being an artist.
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Thousands of Etsy Sellers Are Boycotting the Platform Over High Transaction Fees
Sellers are accusing Etsy of "pandemic profiteering" after the company announced a 30% fee increase.
Art
Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging
An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.
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At the Prado, Visitors Can Inhale the Smells of a Brueghel Painting
The Madrid museum collaborated with a fragrance company to create ten scents of items seen in the masterpiece "The Sense of Smell."
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How Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art Transformed Itself to Aid Ukrainian Refugees
From supplying medicines and food to organizing poetry readings and stress relief workshops, the museum has shifted its focus from art to humanitarian aid.