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Met Museum Raises Admission Fee to $30
The museum’s “pay-what-you-wish” policy will remain in place for New York State residents and tri-state students, but out-of-state adults will pay $5 extra.
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Critics Roast Prince William and Kate Middleton's Official Portrait
The uncanny painting by artist Jamie Coreth has prompted speculations of a Dorian Gray-style bargain and drawn comparisons to Madame Tussauds's wax figures.
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TEFAF Maastricht Fair Evacuated After Armed Jewelry Heist
Two men were arrested after using a sledgehammer to break a glass display case at the art fair. Police are searching for two more suspects.
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Cheech Marin’s Long-Awaited Museum for Chicano Art Opens in California
The newly opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture — also known as “The Cheech” — celebrates, spotlights, and complicates representations of Chicano art.
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Sam Gilliam, Groundbreaking Abstractionist, Dies at 88
At a time when many Black artists turned to figuration, Gilliam harnessed the power of abstraction, freeing the canvas from its support.
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Cecilia Vicuña Sees Venice Through Her Mother’s Eyes
The artist's portrait of her mother, painted in 1977 and reproduced on the vaporetti of Venice, may be one of the most evocative artworks in the Biennale.
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Jenny Holzer Responds to Roe v. Wade Overturn With Blistering NFT
The Tweet comparing an ominous screen capture from the Tucker Carlson Show to one of Holzer's Truisms is being sold as an NFT to benefit crucial organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.
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Let's Make Noise for Abortion Rights
On the day of the Supreme Court’s decision to undo 50 years of constitutional rights to abortion, artist Elana Mann's “protest rattles” feel especially poignant and urgent.
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A Brief History of Women's Eyebrows in Art
Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles.
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Tamara Lanier May Sue Harvard for “Emotional Distress” Over Images of Enslaved Ancestors, Court Rules
But the court ruled unanimously that Harvard was not legally obligated to return the photographs.
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Will Wilson’s Portraits of Survivance
The New Mexico photographer and Navajo Nation citizen has devoted years to surveying the environmental injustice against his people.
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NYC's Last Public Pay Phone Is Now a Museum Artifact
The relic was acquired by the Museum of the City of New York and included in the exhibition Analog City.