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US Returns 55 Looted Artifacts to Greece
The majority of the items were seized from disgraced antiquities collector Michael Steinhardt, who has been accused of having a “rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts.”
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New York’s Rubin Museum Will Help Preserve the Collection of One of Nepal’s Oldest Monasteries
Itum Bahal is known as the oldest and most important Buddhist monastery in Nepal’s capital.
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Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running
The first US museum survey of the avant-garde filmmaker, poet, and artist is on view at the Jewish Museum in New York City through June 5.
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Asako Tabata Paints a World Between Reality and Imagination
The subject running through all of Tabata's works is the meeting place of one’s inner and outer life, of psychic states and outward responsibility, and the different frictions that can arise in that gap.
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An Artist Shifts the Focus of a Folktale from Guilt to Liberation
Azzah Sultan acknowledges the power of stories we tell ourselves and each other, and our power to change their meanings.
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One of the Most Famous Images of the 20th Century Is Going Up For Auction
Man Ray’s surrealist portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse, “Le Violon d’Ingres” (1924), could become the most expensive photograph ever sold.
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David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities
One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives.
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New LaGuardia Terminal Will Feature Art by Six New York Artists
Long disdained by travelers, the airport will feature new, site-specific artworks as part of an $8 billion refurbishment project.
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A Theatrical Tapestry at the Public Theater Explores Age and Asian American Identity
In Out of Time, co-presented with the National Asian American Theater Company, the first all-Asian American cast over the age of 60 performs new monologues by award-winning playwrights.
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New Yorkers Can Pick Up Free At-Home Covid Tests at Select Museums and Libraries
Tests are available at the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and several branches of the city’s three library systems, among other cultural sites.
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Life, Death, and the Cosmos Come Together in Sharon Lockhart's Art
Lockhart's latest exhibition offers a near-spiritual glimpse at the enormity of our planet, encompassing life, death, and the cosmos.
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140+ Artists and Scholars Call on NYC to Reverse Relocation of Roosevelt Statue to North Dakota
The letter, signed by artists including Alicia Grullon, Michael Rakowitz, Walid Raad, Dread Scott, and Hans Haacke, says the city failed to consult Indigenous leaders in the state.