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LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
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A fleet of 24 cars will soon be delivering material from the stacks of the New York Public Library along the tracks of its new "book train."
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In a letter released today, 1,281 archaeologists, museum directors and staff, anthropologists, and historians expressed their solidarity against the destruction at Standing Rock by the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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When a rare portrait by one of Britain's first professional female artists went up for sale two years ago, auctioneers assumed it was the work of a man.
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The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, consists of two settlement mounds — the remains of houses continually built over old ones — that have yielded many treasures since archaeologists began excavations in the 1960s.
Opinion
The US Presidential election cycle has become a hotbed of coded memes and imagery.
Art
NAPLES, Italy — “I don't care if Monday's blue,” sang the Cure. But French artist Camille Henrot seems to care a great deal.
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A replica of Palmyra's ancient Arch of Triumph, built by Romans and destroyed last year by ISIS militants, is on a world tour.
Art
A tiny blot of a landmass off the western coast of Ireland is curiously labeled "Imaginary Isle of O Brazil" on cartographer Thomas Jefferys's 1768 "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean." A 21st-century viewer might wonder: why include a fictional island on a map of the known world?
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Known mostly for his paintings, Clyfford Still drew prolifically, producing thousands of works of paper throughout his 60-year career as an artist.
Art
LOS ANGELES — I have not always been an unalloyed fan of Cindy Sherman.
Opinion
Marc Jacobs committed the most blatant act of cultural appropriation at this month’s New York Fashion Week.