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Translator Says British Museum Used Her Work Without Permission
The London institution is taking down Yilin Wang's translations of Qiu Jin's poems after Wang called out the museum in a Twitter thread.
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Paris’s Louvre Museum Is Safeguarding Ukrainian Antiquities
The 16 medieval works were secretly evacuated from the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike last October.
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The International African American Museum Is Finally Opening
The long-awaited institution will be inaugurated days after Juneteenth and as South Carolina lawmakers continue to push bans on critical race theory.
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Museum Acquires Iconic Japanese "Business Capsule"
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art now owns a housing micro-unit salvaged from the demolished Nakagin Capsule Tower that once stood in Tokyo.
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In NYC Protest, Activists Tell Meta to Stop Deleting Art
In a daylong action on June 15, a group of organizers leafletted five Manhattan art institutions before protesting outside Meta’s offices in Noho.
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Climate Protesters Target Monet Painting in Sweden
Activists smeared red paint on “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny” (1900) at the Nationalmuseum, warning that landscapes like the one depicted will “soon be a thing of the past.”
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Egypt Decries “Afrocentric” Exhibition at Dutch Museum
The nation revoked a Dutch museum’s excavation permits over an exhibition of Black musicians inspired by Ancient Egypt that it accused of “falsifying history.”
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Black Sculptor Littleton Alston Makes History at the US Capitol
Alston’s statue of author Willa Cather is the first by a Black artist in the collection.
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Possible Vermeer Original Now on View in Philadelphia
The mysterious oil painting, once thought to be an anonymous copy, has eluded experts for decades.
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Can Art Change Attitudes Toward Climate Change?
A study found that people who viewed climate data in the form of an artwork were less likely to lean on their preconceived notions.
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After Antisemitic Shooting, LA Neighborhood Gets a Hopeful Mural
Cloe Hakakian’s “The Common Thread" in Pico-Robertson is the first of five anti-hate murals commissioned by the LA County Commission on Human Relations.
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Ancient Roman Tweezers Reveal Empire’s Aversion to Body Hair
A hair-raising display in the city of Wroxeter zeroes in on some of the painful yet enduring hair removal methods adopted by Roman society.