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How a 13-Year-Old Cartoonist Responded to the Parkland School Shooting
Sasha Matthews, who joined today's school walkout to protest gun violence, drew a bleak cartoon after last month's shooting.
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Five Women Accuse Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment [UPDATED]
Four of the five incidents, which span the 1980s to the late 2000s, involve women who worked for Meier's architecture firm.
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Activists Pressure Louvre to Drop Oil Company Sponsorship with Die-in
In a protest performance on Monday, activists collapsed at the foot of "Raft of the Medusa" to call attention to museum sponsor Total's climate change complicity.
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Racist Graffiti Found on Historic African Meeting House in Nantucket
Racist graffiti was sprayed onto a historic Massachusetts building where African Americans once learned and prayed.
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NBA Star Dwyane Wade’s Artistic Tribute to the 17 Students and Teachers Killed in Parkland
"They refuse to be victims and are demanding that their voices be heard. I wanted to create a space where everyone’s voice could be heard.”
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How Smell Tests Can Help Museums Conserve Art and Artifacts
UK chemists even followed their noses to the Tate, where they tested three decades-old plastic sculptures.
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Protesters at Metropolitan Museum Chant “Shame on Sackler,” Targeting Donors Who Profited from Opioid Crisis [UPDATED]
On Saturday, members of the group PAIN Sackler and other organizations gathered at the Temple of Dendur to decry the Metropolitan Museum's association with the Sackler family's painkiller fortune.
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David Adjaye Designs a New National Cathedral for Ghana
Drawing inspiration from Christian symbolism and Ghanaian culture, Adjaye's new cathedral will serve as a venue for both religious and secular gatherings, including state-sponsored celebrations.
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Women Art Workers in Argentina Demand Gender Equality, and Museums Start to Listen
Women in the arts across Argentina are protesting as an organized entity, through the group Nosotras Proponemos, demanding gender parity in the art world.
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Toymaker Omits Frida Kahlo’s Iconic Unibrow in New Barbie Doll
While the Frida Kahlo Corporation sanctioned the doll, the artist's great-niece isn't happy with the appearance of the toy.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Iran's National Museum opened an exhibition of works from the Louvre, activists planted satirical merchandise in the American Museum of Natural History, and the MFA Boston revised its wall labels to address sexual abuse allegations leveled against Egon Schiele.
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Tate Artist-in-Residence Quits Over Director’s Response to Art World Sexual Harassment
Liv Wynter resigned yesterday in a lengthy letter that calls out the institutions's failure to support marginalized identities.