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Michelangelo’s “David” Deemed Too Explicit for Subway Ad

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone May 19, 2023May 22, 2023

Just weeks after the Florida school debacle, an Italian restaurant in Scotland had to edit out the marble statue’s crotch.

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The Hidden Labor of Exhibitions

Avatar photo by Anna Souter September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

Condorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently.

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X-Ray of Van Gogh Painting Reveals Hidden Self-Portrait

Avatar photo by Billie Anania July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

A portrait of the bearded Dutch master was found under cardboard backing and glue on the reverse side of the 1885 work “Head of a Peasant Woman.”

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Climate Activists Glue Themselves to a Van Gogh at London Gallery 

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie June 30, 2022June 30, 2022

In another action yesterday, five members of the group were arrested after they glued themselves to a landscape painting in Scotland.

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Glasgow Museums Will Repatriate 17 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

Also slated for return are seven Indian artifacts and 25 Lakota items, some of them seized from the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.

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This Watercolor Is One of the Earliest Depictions of a Black Woman Living in Scotland

Avatar photo by Zoe Guy November 25, 2021November 24, 2021

The painting by David Allan has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland.

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Experience a Scottish Concert as It Would Have Sounded in 1512

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

Researchers reproduced the acoustics of a defunct chapel at Linlithgow Palace during an Easter Mass performance.

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Path Toward Restitution of Benin Bronzes Advances in Germany and UK

by Cassie Packard April 4, 2021April 5, 2021

Thousands of objects were looted from present-day Nigeria by British troops in a punitive mission in 1897.

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Invoking “Climate Emergency,” National Galleries of Scotland Will End Ties With British Petroleum

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky November 11, 2019

The gallery follows in the footsteps of Tate, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Finding Joy in an Artist’s Swimming Pool

Avatar photo by Mika Ross-Southall August 17, 2019August 16, 2019

“Gateway,” an interactive installation by Joana Vasconcelos, breaks down the boundaries between art and architecture, and makes both accessible.

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Artists Illuminate the Catastrophic Future of Rising Sea Levels

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta activated three synchronized lines of light to illuminate the future’s projected high tide if climate change progresses at its current pace.

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Chimney Rags Revealed to Be a Rare 17th-Century Map

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 7, 2016

The National Library of Scotland received a bundle found in a chimney, and six months of conservation revealed the rags to be a rare 17th-century map.

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Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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