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Artist Covers Transphobic Billboard With Giant Dachshund Drawing
Street artist Yaya decided to counter the UK ad campaign’s bigoted message with “something absurd that couldn’t offend anyone.”
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Man Smashes Ancient Terracotta Warriors in China
A museum visitor reportedly damaged two sculptures in the famous third-century “Terracotta Army” in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.
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Trump’s New Portrait Is as Perverse as His Second Term
In an uncanny photograph revealed by the White House, the president emerges from a shadowy abyss that seems to echo the nation’s decline into authoritarianism.
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Museum Displays 200-Year-Old Condom Printed With Erotic Image
The 19th-century prophylactic, depicting an exposed nun and three aroused clergymen, anchors an exhibit about sex work and health at the Rijksmuseum.
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A Village’s Living Artwork Goes On Display at The Met
The Ceremonial House Ceiling, made by Kwoma artists of Papua New Guinea, has returned to view in the museum’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
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A New Frida Kahlo Museum Is Coming to Mexico City
The forthcoming Museo Casa Kahlo will intimately explore the renowned artist’s early life and familial relationships.
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Whitney Museum Suspends Independent Study Program
The museum is pausing the 2025–26 iteration of the program just weeks after it canceled a performance about Palestinian mourning, sparking outrage and censorship accusations.
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Unveils Arts Platform
The city comptroller’s eight-page culture plan includes a program for doctors to “prescribe” art and the creation of a deputy mayor position for the sector.
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Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support
Kim Sajet had been in the role since 2013, when she was appointed by President Obama to lead the Smithsonian institution.
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Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81
Spurred on by a desire to document his encounters and surroundings, the Brazilian photographer captured the realities of marginalized people around the world.
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“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds
Tina Piña Trachtenburg is set on finding the culprits behind a recent surge in pigeon disappearances throughout the city.
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Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement
Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”