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Senator Seeks Probe Into MoMA Trustee Leon Black’s Epstein Ties
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden said Black’s approximately $100 million in payments to the convicted sex offender were not properly audited.
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Another Awkward MLK Sculpture Draws Mixed Responses
The 11-foot bronze unveiled in Winter Park, Florida, has been described as a "caricature" of the civil rights leader that “just doesn’t look like him.”
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Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable
Tributes to the “hero with a hero” who flung a Subway sandwich at a federal agent have emerged across the nation’s capital and online.
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Silky Headphone Covers Give You Verm-ears
Produced by the Mauritshuis museum and Casetify, the $184 covers are inspired by “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”
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LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds
“We are outraged and deeply distressed,” said the Japanese American National Museum, noting the “stark” parallels to the arrests of Japanese Americans on the site in 1942.
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School of Visual Arts Quietly Lays Off Staff
The faculty union estimates approximately 30 workers were impacted, but the school has not released a statement confirming numbers.
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Anish Kapoor Greenpeace Collab Sends Generic Environmental Message
Does it add anything to the conversation?
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Trump Wants "American Exceptionalism" at the Smithsonian. Will He Get It?
The White House announced an intrusive probe into the institution’s programming for the country’s 250th anniversary.
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For $9.5M, Rothko's Former Home and Studio Could Be Yours
The artist created his series of paintings for the renowned Rothko Chapel in the Upper East Side property.
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Indigenous Museum Closes Temporarily After Whitewashing Pro-Palestine Mural
Artist Jamie John said he feels “betrayed” by the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum, which covered up a preliminary underpainting for his mural commission.
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Visitors Can't Keep Their Hands Off This Eggplant Artwork
The National Gallery Singapore is asking for the public’s cooperation in preserving Suzann Victor’s wall installation “Still Life.”
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Smithsonian’s New Trump Impeachment Label Is Shorter and Safer
The institution installed an updated label to a display about presidential impeachments after backlash over the text’s removal.