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"Doodle for Google" Competition Asks K-12 Artists: How Do You Show Kindness?
The winner of this year’s competition will receive a $30,000 college scholarship and have their Google Doodle featured on the company’s homepage.
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In Subodh Gupta Defamation Lawsuit, "Whistleblower" Defendants Give First Statements in Court
After posting anonymous accusations of sexual harassment against Gupta, administrators of the Instagram account Scene and Herd defended their right to anonymity.
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Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley's Portraits of the Obamas Get a National Tour
Starting in June 2021, the official portraits of Michelle and Barack Obama will leave the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC to tour five cities across the country.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art CEO Apologizes for Mishandling of Sexual Misconduct Complaint
At a town hall meeting with staffers, the museum's CEO Timothy Rub promised to follow his words with improved actions, but some workers find his statements terse and insufficient.
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Ancient Utah Rock Art at Risk of Disappearing Completely
The federal government rejected the nomination of ancient Moab-area rock art to the National Register of Historic Places. The team of archaeologists plans to resubmit the sites for listing on the registry, though it will take thousands of hours and significant manpower.
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A Chinese Independent Film Festival Shutters "Indefinitely" As Government Censorship Tightens
The country's largest independent film festival, China Independent Film Festival, announced, “We believe it is impossible to locally organise a film festival with a purely independent spirit."
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Two Thieves Say They Stole a Gustav Klimt Painting and Returned It Over 20 Years Later
In December 2018, gardeners happened upon the “Portrait of a Lady" painting in a trash bag, concealed in a wall of the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery in Italy.
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A Nightmarish Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece Wool Go Down in Meme History
A $2.4 million restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece will be best remembered as meme fodder. This lamb has seen some things, man.
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Performance Space in Manhattan Will Be Run Entirely by Artists for a Year
A cohort of artists and collectives will have "full transparency into the organization’s inner workings" and control of its annual production budget to pay their own wages and develop programs.
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An Oscar Nominee May Be Unable to Attend the Ceremony Due to Trump's Travel Ban
Syrian director Feras Fayyad, whose film The Cave is nominated for Best Documentary Feature, is the latest high-profile artist experiencing visa troubles.
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National Archives Apologizes for Altering a Photograph of the 2017 Women's March
The museum will remove an edited version of a photograph of the 2017 Women's March that blurred protest placards and replace it with the original, unaltered image.
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Actress Ellen Barkin Reveals She Was Assaulted by Carl Andre in the Late '70s
Recalling an incident when working as a waitress at 22, Barkin says that Andre choked her over an issue with her service, connecting that assault with Andre’s alleged murder of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta.