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Obama Portraits Bring Record Traffic to National Portrait Gallery
On March 24 alone, the day of the March For Our Lives, 35,968 people visited the museum.
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Long-Lost 1924 Film That Anticipated the Holocaust Is Rediscovered and Restored
The City Without Jews was once considered lost forever. But in 2015, at a flea market in Paris, a collector unexpectedly discovered a complete copy of the film.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the UK's arts minister placed an export bar on one of Dalí's lobster telephones, theorist Julia Kristeva was accused of having been a Soviet-era spy, and a decade-long restoration of Tutankhamen's tomb came close to completion.
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Apple Proposes New Emoji to Represent People with Disabilities
The 13 proposed emoji include icons of a hearing aid, prostheses, and two types of wheelchairs.
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A New Artist Residency Lands at LaGuardia Airport
Though it's best known for cramped terminals and perpetual traffic jams, New York City's smallest air travel hub will soon boast a rather unique amenity.
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Bean There, Done That: Houston Gets a Precursor of Chicago's Shiny Anish Kapoor
"I think much more than 'Cloud Gate,' 'Cloud Column' is meant specifically to capture the heavens and bring them down to earth," MFAH's director, Gary Tinterow, told Hyperallergic.
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The World's Best-Attended Museums and Exhibitions in 2017
The Louvre remained the world's most visited museum last year, but Beijing's National Museum of China is closing the gap, with just 100,000 fewer visitors.
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Arts Workers Rally Around Parole Case of Black Panther Convicted of Killing Two Police Officers
Hundreds have signed a petition supporting the parole of Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Liberation Army.
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In a Parisian Cemetery, a Lovely Brancusi Has Vanished in Plain Sight
Brancusi's "The Kiss" has stood atop Tatiana Rachewskaïa's tomb for more than a century, but six months ago it was covered up and its future remains a mystery.
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Tourist Attraction in Indonesia Rips Off Chris Burden, Yayoi Kusama, and Museum of Ice Cream
The new attraction includes a copy of Burden's "Urban Light" called "Love Light," a version of Kusama's "Obliteration Room" dubbed "Love Lock," and a whole section called "Museum of Ice Cream."
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Lawyer Stalls Plan to Remove Statue that San Francisco Officials Consider Racist [UPDATED]
The bronze statue "Early Days" was called "racist and disrespectful" by the San Francisco Arts Commission, which voted unanimously for its removal earlier this month.
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A Super-White Coating Based on a Beetle’s Scales Could Transform Paint
Developed from cellulose, it is remarkably thin and lightweight, and scatters light extremely well to achieve an incredibly bright white.