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UK Extends Export Ban on Coveted "Portrait of Omai"
London's National Portrait Gallery was given a few months to acquire the work, which depicts the first Polynesian visitor to the UK.
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Art Institute of Chicago Under Scrutiny Over Sacred Nepali Necklace
The 17th-century object remains on display at the Chicago museum despite Nepal’s calls for repatriation.
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New “We ❤️ NYC" Campaign Misses the Mark
The recently unveiled design is meant to live alongside the iconic original and specifically address the city, but New Yorkers are not happy.
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1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers
A report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed hundreds of works once owned by people accused of or convicted of antiquities crimes.
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Lunar Bead Necklace and Asteroid "Emoji” Head to Auction
Christie’s bizarre sale features other space rocks propped up on stands like sculptures.
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Scientists Create the First Full Brain Map of a Fly
The achievement is a giant step toward understanding human neural networks.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Over Climate Protest
The institution shuttered in advance of an action planned for the 33rd anniversary of its infamous art heist.
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AI Image Generators Finally Figured Out Hands
Midjourney fixed its inability to render hands realistically, one of the telltale signs of an image being AI-generated.
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Lorraine O'Grady, Emily Jacir Among American Academy of Arts’s 2023 Awardees
Artist Faith Ringgold and scholar Helen Hennessy Vendler received this year’s gold medals.
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Take Ai Weiwei's Middle Finger Anywhere in the World
A new collaboration between the artist and Avant Arte invites users to flip the bird anywhere and everywhere on Google Maps.
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A Photographer's Love Affair With Black Southern Quilt-Making
The 131 quilts were assembled by Roland Freeman, a prominent photographer and documentarian of 20th-century Black culture.
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Museum Director Reviled by Chinatown Activists Heads to Smithsonian
Nancy Yao, the embattled president of NYC’s Museum of Chinese in America, has been chosen to lead the forthcoming American Women’s History Museum.