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This week, Calatrava's new Brazilian museum, an intergenerational dialogue in the arts, Chicago artists respond to the Laquan MacDonald video, issues with public art in New York, and more.
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Weekend Words: Star
The greatly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the series, opened this weekend.
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This week, being trolled by Fox News, a photograph that took 720,000 exposures to get right, Lee Miller's war photography, ISIS and looting, drones catching drones, and more.
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Weekend Words: Gun
The New York Times reports that fear of restrictive gun laws causes a spike in gun sales.
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In Light of the Newest One, a Brief History of Mona Lisa Theories
It seems the Mona Lisa will never fail to inspire research and lead to discoveries that, though questionable, will never fail to grab headlines and cause every Leonardo expert in the world to weigh in on the matter and inevitably butt heads with each other.
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To the Man Suing the Met for “Aesthetic Whitewashing,” Here Are Some of the Museum's Non-Aryan Jesuses
One New Yorker is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for displaying fair-skinned and blonde-haired artworks of Jesus Christ, claiming that they are racist and made him suffer from emotional distress.
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This week, the rise of philanthrocaptialism, race debt in the US, how images fade in the media, Pantone's colors of the year, the Art Preservation Index, and more.
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Weekend Words: Climate
This week is Climate Change Week.
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A London Gallery Threw Me Out Over a Picasso
LONDON — In case you were in any doubt as to the true source of authority in the art world today, we now have an answer.
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This week, serious landscape painting, profiling the Met's Sheena Wagstaff, living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, the first thing ever purchased on the internet, and more.
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Weekend Words: Train
Today is the 100th birthday of Billy (“Take the A Train”) Strayhorn.
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This week, the Statue of Liberty's Muslim origins, Martin Wong in the Bronx, CNN's objectivity lie, Jackson Pollock's prints and drawings, antiquities on eBay, why audio doesn't go viral, and more.