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Celebrate MLK Day at New York City’s Arts Institutions
A protest music workshop, a community mural, and film screenings and performances honor the Civil Rights leader on what would have been his 95th birthday.
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Epstein Files Reveal Underage Sex Allegation Against Arts Patron Les Wexner
In a since-settled lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia Giuffre said she had sex with the billionaire up to 10 times while underage.
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Historic Philadelphia Art School Axes Degree Programs
Running on a $3 million deficit, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts will no longer offer undergraduate and graduate degrees after the 2024-2025 school year.
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Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition
Supporters are calling on the school to reinstate what would have been 87-year-old artist's first retrospective in the US.
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The Famous History of the Brooklyn Synagogue That Went Viral
While 770 Eastern Parkway garnered attention earlier this week for the discovery of illegal tunnels, the building’s significance stretches back decades.
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Warhol Foundation Doles Out $4M to 50 Art Orgs
Black- and Native-led arts nonprofits are at the forefront of the grantees in this cycle.
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Street Artists Launch Poster Campaign for Gaza
Unmute Gaza features downloadable prints based on the work of Gaza-based photojournalists.
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California’s Iconic Salvation Mountain Designated a Historic Site
Artist Leonard Knight spent 25 years crafting the work in the remote California desert.
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Cuban Vice Minister of Culture Removed From Office
Fernando Rojas, long criticized by Cuban artists for his complicity with the island’s oppressive regime, will remain as an advisor to the minister.
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Ethical Questions Arise After AI “Completes” Keith Haring Painting
The artist had left the 1989 painting intentionally unfinished as a commentary on the AIDS crisis that ultimately took his life.
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Designer and Architect Neri Oxman Accused of Plagiarism
Oxman, who had a 2020 solo show at MoMA, also faced criticism for accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein the year prior.
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Lost Early Footage of the Amazon Rediscovered in Czech Archive
Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo (1918) highlights the 20th-century rubber boom and enslavement of Indigenous people through a propagandic lens.