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Today Is Henry Darger Day in Chicago
On what would be the self-taught artist's 125th birthday, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art is holding a daylong celebration formally recognized by the mayor of Chicago.
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Peruse 1,000-Year-Old Medical Remedies, from Ox Bile to Mandrake Root
The British Library owns the only extant illustrated Old English herbal, and it recently digitized the entire manuscript.
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For the First Time, Metropolitan Museum Will Display Indigenous Art in Its American Wing
With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: pioneering Pop artist James Rosenquist died, 5Pointz artists were cleared to sue the site’s developer, and a crucifix attributed to Michelangelo was reinstalled at a church in Florence.
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For Centennial of Duchamp’s “Fountain,” Some Museums Will Offer Free Admission with a Password
Dropping the right name could get you into a museum for free on Sunday, April 9.
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We Buy Gold Joins a Growing Cluster of Galleries in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
A new gallery is the latest to join a growing cluster of art spaces in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood.
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Cultural Organizations Improve Quality of Life in NYC’s Low-Income Neighborhoods, Report Finds
Among the report's surprising findings is that the city's cultural sector is phenomenally informal and extensive, with more than 4,700 nonprofit cultural providers and more than 17,000 for-profit cultural entities.
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A Rally at New York City Hall Calls on Trump to Fund the Arts
About 400 people descended upon City Hall today for a "Rally to Save the Arts," demanding that Trump fully fund the very agencies he wants to completely cut.
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Controversial Dana Schutz Painting Removed from Whitney Biennial Due to Water Leak [UPDATED]
Due to a "mechanical issue," Schutz's controversial painting and works by Maya Stovall and Julien Nguyen have been temporarily deinstalled.
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A Worldwide Ad Takeover that Turned Billboards into Democratic Spaces
An ad takeover helps a new wave of anti-billboard activists raise awareness about the value of public space.
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Billionaire Opens Museum in a Reconstructed Baroque Palace in Potsdam
POTSDAM — Touted as the “youngest and noblest of all German private museums,” the Museum Barberini opened to the public on January 23 in an area lined with Prussian palaces and gardens on the banks of the old Alter Markt Square, a stone’s throw from some of the city’s
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Art Movements
This week in art news: artists were injured in clashes with Chinese security officials during the demolition of a studio complex in Beijing, a deputy director of the State Hermitage Museum was put under house arrest on suspicion of fraud, and Ai Weiwei revealed plans to install more than 100 fence s