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Play EmilyBlaster, a Computer Game Based on Emily Dickinson's Poetry
The game instructs players to recreate the poet’s starkish, rhyming prose by shooting at moving words from a fixed point, with hilarious results.
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Guggenheim Museum Director Richard Armstrong to Step Down
Armstrong, a controversial figure at the institution, held the position for over 14 years.
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Queer Arts Space Cancels Documenta Programming After Harassment Incidents
The New Delhi-based gallery and performance space Party Office wants Documenta to offer a public apology after artists reported incidents of racism and transphobic harassment in Kassel.
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Hagia Sophia’s Marble Floors Suffer "Tremendous Damage,” Reports Say
Images circulating online appear to show cracked and damaged floors caused by heavy cleaning machinery used at the historic structure.
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Explosion Destroys Mysterious Georgia Doomsday Monument
The “Georgia Guidestones” attracted thousands of annual visitors and drew the ire of conservatives and conspiracists who deemed them “satanic.”
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Another Dinosaur Skeleton Hits the Auction Block
Sotheby’s is offering the first Gorgosaurus to ever go under the hammer, even as some critics find sales of dinosaur fossils appalling.
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Black Artist Attacked in White Supremacist March in Boston
Musician and activist Charles Murrell said he was assaulted by members of Patriot Front on his way to work.
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Philadelphia Faces Criticism for Commissioning a Harriet Tubman Statue From a White Artist
“Nana Harriet risked life and limb to be free so that no one White person would benefit off her person. And now we have someone white benefiting off of her,” said artist Maisha Sullivan-Ongoza.
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Richmond Police Admit to Tear-Gassing Peaceful Protesters at Robert E. Lee Monument
The police department retracted its previous claims that demonstrators were “violent” as part of a settlement in a lawsuit lodged by six protesters who were tear-gassed by officers in June 2020.
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As NYC Slashes School Budgets, Art Teachers Are Feeling the Squeeze
Approximately 1,200 district schools have had to decrease spending after Mayor Eric Adams cut funding by over $200 million.
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A Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Doghouse Goes on View in California
The pet home is on view at the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, Wright’s largest public project.
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Baby Mammoth, Buried for 30,000 Years, Unearthed Largely Intact in Canada
Nun cho ga, meaning “big baby animal” in the Hän language, is “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America.