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After supporting and promoting local artists' work for over 54 years, a nonprofit contemporary art center in a converted Elizabethan-style home in New Haven, Connecticut, will likely shut down this week.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
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It’s been nearly a quarter century since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the physical reminders of Central and Eastern Europe’s communist past are still provoking controversy.
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This week in art news: an Irma Stern painting that was being used as a noticeboard is found in a London flat, Rome's Trevi Fountain is crawling with rats, and Chinese authorities issued Ai Weiwei a new passport.
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The Renaissance artist Michelangelo was fascinated by human anatomy.
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If you thought you were going to have a productive day today, think again.
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A 1,370-year-old section of the Koran possibly dating back to the life of Mohammed has been discovered in central England.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a mural of rainbows accused of containing "emblems of homosexuality" in Riyadh, a librarian confesses he stole 143 paintings and replaced them with his own forgeries, and a museum director gets shot in Moscow.
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Some 2,000 ancient gold spirals were recently discovered in Denmark.
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At first glance, French Canadian artist Rosalie Maheux's artwork displayed in the lobby of a government office building in Toronto resembles a kaleidoscopic mandala composed of harmless, symmetric shapes.
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If the mosaic truly shows Alexander, it would be the first pictorial representation of a non-Biblical story ever found in a Jewish house of worship.