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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.
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After 47 Years in Midtown, Marian Goodman Gallery Goes Downtown
The Manhattan gallery’s move may be Tribeca’s most anticipated opening of the year and could mark an inflection point for the neighborhood.
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Maurizio Cattelan Banana Artwork Could Fetch $1M at Auction
The infamous fruit taped to a wall divided viewers and critics when it debuted at Art Basel in Miami in 2019.
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Sculpture of a Turd on Nancy Pelosi’s Desk Appears on National Mall
"This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, to loot, urinate, and defecate,” reads a plaque.
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25K+ Artists Decry “Unlicensed Use of Creative Works” to Train AI
Painters Amoako Boafo and Cecilia Vicuña and photographer Lynn Goldsmith are among the signatories of a new petition.
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DACA-Recipient Artists Share Their Stories as Program Hangs by a Thread
They have completed arts degrees, exhibited their work, and received grants, but some artists say the immigration policy offers limited paths to legal status.