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Man Breaks Into Dallas Museum and Smashes Over $1M Worth of Ancient Greek Art
21-year-old Brian Hernandez is accused of breaking into the museum by smashing a door with a steel chair.
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Harvard Holds Remains of 7,000 Native Americans and 19 Possible Enslaved People, Leaked Draft Says
"For too long, these remains have been separated from their individuality, their history, and their communities,” reads a report obtained by the Harvard Crimson.
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Forensic Architecture Finds Police Failings in 2020 Hanau Mass Shooting
The report, while focused on the racist attack in Germany, comes as shootings proliferate at an alarming rate in the US.
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The Winnie the Pooh Painting That Scandalized the Cincinnati Police
Artist Magnus Juliano was the target of threatening comments after police called for the removal of his painting "Off the Pig" from the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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When Cake Imitates Art
Fondant, pie crust, and icing are the chosen mediums of the Blanton Museum's annual bake-off, which asks competitors to recreate collection artworks as cakes.
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Is the Orlando Museum of Art Displaying Fake Basquiats?
The FBI is investigating the authenticity of works that are said to have been found in the storage unit of a Hollywood screenwriter.
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NY District Attorney's Office Seizes Allegedly Looted Antiquities From the Met
The five ancient Egyptian works, worth over $3M, may be tied to an international trafficking ring.
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African American Museum to Open in Former Slave Port
The opening date for the museum, located at the former site of Gadsden's Wharf in Charleston, has been anticipated for over two decades.
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150-Year-Old Egg-Laying Mammal Specimens Found at Cambridge Museum
Collected in the late 1800s, the recently rediscovered platypus and echidna specimens were key to demonstrating that mammals could lay eggs.
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Vandals Graffiti Documenta Exhibition Space of Palestinian Artist Group
The show's curators called it "a politically motivated threat" toward the artist collective The Question of Funding, members of whom have been the target of antisemitism accusations.
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“Too Many Bros”: In Prank, NFT Dating App Shuts Down Over Lack of Women
The joke reflects crypto’s larger gender inequity problem.
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The Precarious Lives of Freelance Photographers on the Frontlines
Underpaid and under-resourced, funding their own equipment and health insurance, freelance photojournalists are barely hanging on — and risking their lives.