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In Historic First, Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce Win Venice Biennale’s Golden Lions
They are the first Black women to represent their countries in the international exhibition.
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An Online Platform Spans Millennia of South Asian Art
With over 2,000 entries, the new MAP Encyclopedia of Art aims to make the region’s art history accessible to all.
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Pompeii Heats Up With a New Exhibition of Erotic Art
The show encompasses 70 works from the archeological site’s vast troves, including the famous "Leda and the Swan" fresco recovered in 2018.
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A Church-Turned-Skate Park in St. Louis Is Raising Funds for an Arts Center
Sk8 Liborius, which has run the space since 2012, wants to turn it into an arts hub for under-resourced youth.
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Taylor Swift Now Has a Millipede Named After Her
If you spot this little guy crawling on you, just stay calm and shake it off, shake it off!
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UAE Sentenced a Palestinian Artist to Death for Drug Possession
The artist maintains she was framed after an Emirati police search found half a kilogram of cocaine in her Dubai apartment.
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Seattle Art Museum Guards Are Trying to Unionize, But It Hasn’t Been Easy
Some workers at the museum say they’ve experienced “aggressive union-busting tactics” since organizing.
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A Tall and Skinny NYC Skyscraper Is Being Compared to a Coffee Stirrer
The super tall and skinny skyscraper, affectionately dubbed “the coffee stirrer,” was built at a 24:1 height-to-width ratio.
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LAXART Secures Permanent Space in LA, Joining Galleries in LA’s Melrose Hill
The arrival of art spaces in other majority POC neighborhoods in the city has previously sparked fears of gentrification.
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Ancient Altar of Holy Sepulchre Church Found, Graffitied Over for Years
It is one of only two Cosmatesque works that are known to exist outside Italy — the other adorning Westminster Abbey.
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Glasgow Museums Will Repatriate 17 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Also slated for return are seven Indian artifacts and 25 Lakota items, some of them seized from the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.
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Nepal Debuts Inaugural Venice Pavilion With Rubin Museum's Support
The New York museum recently found itself in hot water over its holdings of two objects looted from Nepal, and there may be another contested work in its collection.