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The Sophisticated Design of a 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe
Researchers are studying anew one of the oldest prosthetic devices ever made.
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An 18th-Century Botanical Coloring Book for Adults
A scientist found The Florist, a coloring book printed in 1760, in the library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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Cease-and-Desist Letter Leaves the McMansion Hell Blog in Purgatory [UPDATED]
Kate Wagner has taken her irreverent architecture criticism blog offline after the online real estate listings aggregator Zillow accused her of violating the company's terms of use.
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Andrew Wyeth’s Paintings Featured on New USPS Stamps
Andrew Wyeth's melancholic paintings of rural American life will soon be available as postage stamps, released on the centennial of his birth.
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A Glimpse Inside the Street Art–Themed 5Pointz Condos
The first renderings of the luxury development show its logo in wildstyle lettering and graffiti-inspired wall art in stairwells and lounges.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the 12th-century Grand Al-Nuri Mosque was destroyed in Mosul, Leonardo DiCaprio handed over Picasso and Basquiat paintings implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund scandal, and an anonymous artist painted bathing suits on Antony Gormley's beach figures.
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Nazi Artifacts Found in Secret Room at Collector’s Home in Argentina
Over 75 Nazi artifacts were discovered hidden behind a bookcase in a suburban Buenos Aires home.
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US Arts Nonprofits Generated $166.3 Billion in Spending in 2015, Report Shows
A new report shows how the nonprofit culture sector stimulates the economy both locally and nationally.
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BP Sponsorship Violates UK National Portrait Gallery's Ethics Policy, Report Claims
Culture Unstained is calling on the museum to cut ties with BP because of its connections to foreign regimes that violate human rights.
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Artists Protest Sexual Violence and David Choe’s Bowery Mural
On Sunday afternoon, 18 artists gathered in front of David Choe's mural, which was recently painted over, to protest rape culture in light of the street artist's own history.
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At British Museum Protest, Australian Aboriginal Activist Demands Repatriation of Ancestor’s Shield
On Sunday, with help from the theatrical protest group BP Or Not BP?, Rodney Kelly appealed to the public for the return of the Gweagal shield.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the artist Khadija Saye went missing in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, two teens were rescued after spending three days in the Paris catacombs, and a previously unknown Jackson Pollock was found in an Arizona attic.