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This photo released by the Union Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC), shows jewelry on display at a room of Latchford family in London on Feb. 14, 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

A collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

Cambodia's government said the pieces of jewelry that arrived back in their homeland included items "... precious metal pieces from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period."

February 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Joan Brown's<em data-stringify-type="italic"> Joan + Donald</em>, 1982, Oil enamel on canvas, 72 1/4 x 60 in. (183.5 x 152.4 cm), collection of Adam Lindemann

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  • Fine Art

Mr. Whiskers is ready for his close-up: When an artist's pet is also their muse

Pablo Picasso made studies of Lump, an adored dachshund. And Frida Kahlo's catalogue is packed with self-portraits featuring her pet monkeys and parrots.

February 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Two of artist Dean Gillespie's miniatures in the traveling visual arts exhibition <em>Marking Time</em>, which examines mass incarceration.

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  • Arts & Life

'Imagining Freedom' will give $125 million to art projects focused on incarceration

Since 2020, the Mellon Foundation has given over $40 million to arts and humanities projects addressing mass incarceration. In all, it says, it will donate $125 million to such efforts.

February 15, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas

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  • Book Reviews

'All the Beauty in the World' conveys Met guard's profound appreciation for art

Patrick Bringley's story — he jumped off the career ladder, deliberately taking a position divorced from ambition in order to find the space for quiet contemplation — is oddly suited to our times.

February 14, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin
The multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes, whose Healing Project has won a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.

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  • Arts & Life

An artist's 'Healing Project,' focused on incarceration and violence, wins $1 million

Multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes has explored mass incarceration for the last eight years. With this sizeable grant, he hopes to sustain "The Healing Project" for decades to come.

February 10, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Activists hold a banner reading "Take down the Sackler name" in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris on July 1, 2019.

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  • Movie Interviews

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' chronicles Nan Goldin's career of art and activism

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Goldin discuss their Oscar-nominated documentary about efforts to remove the Sackler family name from prominent museums amid the opioid epidemic.

February 09, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
A Pompeiian style fresco from Herculaneum titled "Young Hercules and the snake", dated to the I second A.C., is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. by international art traffickers, during a press conference in Rome, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.

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  • Fine Art

An ancient fresco is among 60 treasures the U.S. is returning to Italy

U.S. authorities announced that the fresco depicting Hercules and dozens of other trafficked objects, which ended up in private collections in the United States, would go back to Italy.

January 24, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The Embrace, the new memorial sculpture in Boston made in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

New MLK statue in Boston is greeted with a mix of open arms, consternation and laughs

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

January 17, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, <em>Untitled (Valora tu mentira americana)</em> (detail), 2018. Hurricane-ravaged wooden electric post with statehood propaganda. Private collection; courtesy of the artist and Embajada, San Juan.

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  • Arts & Life

When people are less important than beaches: Puerto Rican artists at the Whitney

The first major exhibit of Puerto Rican art on the mainland in 50 years wrestles with the question: Who is Puerto Rico for?

January 07, 2023
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
A view of a section of Michael Heizer's <em>City</em>

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  • Arts & Life

Immerse yourself in this colossal desert 'City' — but leave the selfie stick at home

Michael Heizer began work on his massive installation in the Nevada desert more than 50 years ago. One of the largest artworks in the world, it cost $40 million (so far) and is now open to the public.

January 01, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Jonah Kinigstein, 99, has been making art since he was a teenager. Some of his work satirizes modern artists such as Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, visible in the painting behind him.

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  • Art & Design

This artist stayed figurative when art went abstract — he's finally recognized, at 99

Figurative painter Jonah Kinigstein was shut out of the art world when abstract expressionism came to prominence. Now he's finally getting some recognition.

January 01, 2023
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  • Matthew Schuerman
<em>The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin</em>, from Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, about 1525-1530, Simon Bening. Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment.

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  • Fine Art

'Visualizing the Virgin' shows Mary in the Middle Ages

An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum explores how Jesus' mother was portrayed before Renaissance artists painted her with golden curls, perfect skin and blue eyes.

December 30, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
"Women's Rights are Human Rights" was curated by graphic designer Elizabeth Resnick. The exhibit will be on display at Mercer University through January 2023.

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  • Art & Design

'Women’s Rights' exhibit in Macon showcases international collection of political posters

The exhibit, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” was curated by Elizabeth Resnick, a graphic designer and curator out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Its namesake is from a 1995 speech by then-first lady Hillary Clinton. 

November 25, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
Restorer Elizabeth Wicks works on the <em>Allegory of Inclination</em>, a 1616 work by Artemisia Gentileschi, in the Casa Buonarroti Museum, in Florence, Italy, on Wednesday.

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  • Fine Art

A censored nude painting from 1616 is set to be digitally unveiled

Long before Instagram, the male-dominated art world had censorship guidelines of its own. After a cover-up paint job, restorers will create a digital image of Artemisia Gentileschi's original work.

November 14, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama.

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  • Arts & Life

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

November 12, 2022
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  • Chloe Veltman
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