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Nearly 100 Maya Masterpieces Are Now on View in New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lives of the Gods exhibition is the first major US show of Maya art in the last decade.
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Part-Time Faculty at the New School Are Fed Up
The workers, who make up 87% of faculty at the school, are striking until “a reasonable contract” is reached.
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Finding Medea in LA’s Chinatown
MILK is an immersive, multisensory collaborative performance exploring a somber Greek tale of revenge.
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Meet the Tattoo Artists Who Champion Body Positivity
Young, queer, and non-White tattoo artists are exploring how the artform can complement the body’s natural curves and colors.
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Paintings Born of LA’s Grit and Grime
Collaging debris culled during urban excursions, Michael Alvarez portrays the liminal spaces of his city, from freeway underpasses to public parks.
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Discovering How Black Women Might Forge a Path to Freedom
The "Loophole of Retreat" symposium at the Venice Biennale demonstrated that the personal is not only political; it’s also where most of humanity lives.
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Harvard Admits Owning Hair Samples of 700 Native American Students
The university said it will return the samples, some of which were used in research that directly or indirectly supported scientific racism.
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Madrid Museum Responds to Climate Protests With Undercover Cops
Several other institutions are tightening security measures even though damage to artworks remains rare.
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NYC Salary Transparency Law Exposes Art World's Lowest Wages
Museums, galleries, and other employers are now obliged to disclose salaries — but that doesn’t mean they’re high.
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Lee Bontecou, Artist of Delightfully Uncategorizable Sculptures, Dies at 91
“I just got tired of sculpture as a big thing in the middle of a room,” the artist once said, adding that she “wanted it to go into space.”
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Mysterious Oil Sketch Turns Out to Be a Real Rembrandt
The sketch was thought to be a copy, but historians still don't know its function.
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Some People Still Want an Arts Degree, Apparently
University of California's Berkeley Campus has reported a sharp increase in students enrolling in arts and humanities majors in the last decade.