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Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting
From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction.
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Donated Hans Hofmann Painting to Fund Social Justice Scholarship at Bennington College
The work, donated by TV and film writer and producer Norman Lear, will be sold to benefit the college’s “Art for Access” program.
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Getty Grants $1.3M to Projects That “Unlock Paper’s Material Secrets”
The LA-based foundation will fund a range of initiatives by curators studying prints, drawings, and other forms of graphic art.
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The Met Hosts an Exhibition of Employees' Art, Open to the Public for the First Time
More than 450 workers at the museum contributed works to the beloved exhibition, from security guards and technicians to librarians, registrars, and volunteers.
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140+ Documenta Artists and Organizers Denounce “Racist Attacks” Following Vandalism
The German contemporary art show has been plagued by accusations of antisemitism for its inclusion of artists who denounce Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
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Indiana Museum Apologizes for Offering a “Juneteenth Watermelon Salad”
The watermelon is associated with a painful history of racist tropes against Black Americans.
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1,300-Year-Old Mayan Corn God Head Discovered in Mexico
The finding was part of an offering placed on a pond, thought to replicate the entrance to the underworld.
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$2M Gold Tabernacle Stolen From Brooklyn Church
Also, an angel statue was decapitated and the eucharist thrown over the altar.
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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.