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Is a Brazilian Art School Actually a Cult?
Former students of the Atelier do Centro have come forward with horrific allegations of abuse by Rubens Espirito Santo, the man they once called “master.”
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Coretta Scott King Gets an Atlanta Tribute
The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, established by the civil rights activist in 1968, unveiled the new memorial on what would have been her 96th birthday.
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The Florida Art Students Who Want to Take Down DeSantis
As the threat of legislation banning critical race and queer theory looms, students and faculty at Florida International University are making their voices heard.
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On May Day, Celebrating Baltimore’s Union Victories
Like the National Labor Union in 1866, the Walters Art Museum union lit a fuse that ignited a labor movement boom across Baltimore’s cultural institutions.
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Art Student Eats Maurizio Cattelan Banana
Noh Huyn-soo ate an edition of “Comedian” (2019) on display at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul.
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Voluptuous Mermaid Art Causes a Stir in Italy
The sculpture, dedicated to scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, is described as “a tribute to the great majority of women who are curvy.”
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Racist Monument in Virginia Will Finally Be Removed
The Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial has been repeatedly criticized for its White supremacist distortion of history in the characterization of Black people as "loyal slaves.”
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What’s Really Luring New York City’s Galleries to Tribeca?
Dozens of galleries have sprouted between Canal and Chambers Streets and west of Lafayette, one of NYC’s priciest neighborhoods. What gives?
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Climate Protesters Target Degas Sculpture at National Gallery of Art
Two activists smeared the sculpture’s case and pedestal with red and black paint.
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Stone Buddha Found in Egypt Sheds Light on India’s Influence
The statue provides evidence of Indian trade relations with the Ancient Roman Empire by way of Egypt.
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A Morning Star Banner Rises on the South Dakota Prairie
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate artist Erin Genia is raising funds to create a public artwork for the reservation where she is from.
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Italians Are Mad at Their Country’s New “Barbie Venus”
A government tourism campaign depicting Botticelli’s Venus as a “virtual influencer” is widely criticized as trivializing the nation’s cultural heritage.