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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Is Turning 100
The Harlem institution is marking the occasion with a yearlong series of events including a special exhibition and a block party.
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Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?
Luke Farritor, who used AI to decode a Greco-Roman scroll from Pompeii, is reportedly part of the team leading Musk’s chaotic takeover of government systems.
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Garage Sale Portrait Is Not a Van Gogh Original, Museum Says
But an art authentication group insists that the painting is an original by the Dutch master, stating that “even the museum is fallible.”
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AI Art With Human “Expressive Elements” Can Be Copyrighted
The US Copyright Office issued its latest findings on the controversial question of who owns artworks created using generative tools.
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Trump Disbands President's Committee on Arts and Humanities
The committee worked on projects including mobilizing artists to counter all forms of hate and the developing role of AI in arts and humanities.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum Board Member Calls Gazans “Fundamentally Evil”
In an editorial, Martin Oliner encouraged other countries to support Trump in “making Gaza great again.”
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Southern Poverty Law Center Backs Removal of For Freedoms Billboard
The billboard’s use of a MAGA slogan over an image from Selma's Bloody Sunday "disrespects John Lewis’ legacy and contributions to the Civil Rights Movement,” said the nonprofit.
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Artist Alonzo Davis, Champion of Black American Art, Dies at 82
He co-founded one of the first Black-owned contemporary art galleries in the US, exhibiting the work of David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, and many others.
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Artists and Galleries Decry Sale of Iconic Chelsea Building
Hundreds of tenants could be displaced from the West 26th Street arts complex established by Gloria Naftali, now on the market for $170M.
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Montgomery Mayor Calls for Removal of “Politicized” Billboard Artwork
The work, designed by the art collective For Freedoms, depicts a photograph from Selma’s Bloody Sunday in 1965 overlaid with Trump’s campaign slogan.
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Museums Scramble to Grasp Impact of Trump's DEI Mandate
Widespread uncertainty pervades as institutions either roll back initiatives or try to determine whether their programs are in compliance.
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Imagining the Mona Lisa’s New Room
A Louvre expansion that would put La Gioconda in her very own gallery has us envisioning the most mysterious sitter in iconic rooms of art history.