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New York’s Frick Collection Will Finally Reopen in Spring
The museum, which houses 1,800 European artworks including three Vermeer paintings, is set to welcome visitors again after a four-year renovation.
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New Yorkers, Cast Your Vote Early at One of These Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and other cultural institutions are open for early voting.
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Ancient Maya City Discovered in Southeastern Mexico
Archaeologists derived the findings from data collected in 2013 as part of a forest-monitoring survey.
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There’s a New Paranormal Museum in Town
The Rowtons’ Museum in Wales is part of a wider cultural movement to dive deeper into the histories of the supernatural and the spiritual.
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New Documentary Gives a Voice to Benin's Looted Treasures
Mati Diop's Dahomey centers on the repatriation of 26 stolen Beninese objects and how it could shape the African country’s future.
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LA Artists Push Back Against Call to “Beautify” RV Encampment Sites
Dozens signed an open letter criticizing the project for failing to involve unhoused people and for seeking to “cover up … sites of trauma and loss.”
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Whitney Museum Could Expand Into Historic Meat Market Next Door
A new development known as “Gansevoort Square” would include housing and around 45,000 square feet set aside for the Whitney and the High Line.
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Neo-Nazi Tiki Torch “Monument” to Trump Emerges in DC
The apparently satirical artwork follows the appearance of a mysterious sculpture of a turd on Nancy Pelosi’s desk last week.
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Studio Museum in Harlem Receives $10M From Ford Foundation
The gift will permanently endow the New York institution’s director and chief curator role, held by Thelma Golden for nearly two decades.
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Weatherspoon Art Museum Receives 270+ Works on Feminism and the South
Art and writings by Willie Cole, Saaya Woolfalk, and Tennessee Williams are among the $5 million donation from Greensboro artist Carol Cole Levin.
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UK’s Vagina Museum Renames Galleries to Honor “Mothers of Gynecology”
Three galleries are now dedicated to Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy, three Black enslaved women subjected to experimental surgeries by disgraced physician J. Marion Sims.
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Sexually Graphic Frescoes Discovered in Pompeii, Again
A recently excavated house contains at least four paintings including an artistic depiction of copulation between a satyr and a nymph.