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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.
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Portugal Hospital Removes Artwork About Its Slavery Ties
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto’s work discusses the Centro Hospitalar Conde de Ferreira, funded in part by the trafficking of enslaved people from Angola to Brazil.
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Hundreds Sign Petition in Support of Artist Shellyne Rodriguez
Scholars and artists accuse Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts of “craven hypocrisy” for firing Rodriguez as she faced vicious right-wing media attacks.
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Medieval Stone Penis Weapon Sharpener Says a Lot About Men
The stone object “materializes the symbolic association between violence, weapons, and masculinity,” said the lead archaeologist.
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Ukrainian Artist Polina Raiko's House-Museum Likely Lost to Flood
The house filled with frescoes is reportedly "underwater" after a dam breach in the Russian-occupied Kherson region.