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'Renegade' Rug Makers Create Community, Tufting On TikTok

Apr 18, 2021
With industrial metal tufting guns, fiber artists can make colorful, textured designs — Pokémon characters, candy wrappers, portraiture — worthy of walls, floors or social media feeds.
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The Picture Show
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dance.heals.all/?hl=en">Tanya Karina</a>, a resident artist at the House of Yes, was in Texas waiting to perform at South by Southwest when the news broke about the severity of the pandemic. Since March 2020, Karina has
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House Of Yes Performers At Home: How Artists Persevere

Apr 18, 2021
The House of Yes performance venue in Brooklyn is closed for now, but the artists that were active in it are busier than ever, finding themselves and making art that speaks to the times we live in.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Ciera Amaro's art is one of the submissions to a project called Dispatches from Quarantine.
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Dispatches From Quarantine: How Young People Are Documenting History

Apr 16, 2021
Enticed by what young adults had to share about the pandemic, historian Alexandra Zapruder set out to document history through an online gallery called Dispatches from Quarantine.
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Europe
Carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police) officers of the art squad's archaeological unit pose with a headless Roman statue wearing a draped toga in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.
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1st Century Roman Statue, Looted A Decade Ago, Found In Belgium By Off-Duty Police

Apr 13, 2021
The statue is valued at 100,000 euros and was stolen from an archaeological site near the outskirts of Rome.
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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
Amy Sherald, <em>Breonna Taylor,</em> 2020, oil on linen
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'Filled With Her Spirit,' A Louisville Art Exhibition Honors Breonna Taylor

Apr 11, 2021
Just over a year after police officers shot and killed Taylor in her home, the Speed Art Museum has opened a show in her memory. "To see it all come together is just a blessing," says Taylor's mother.
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Goats and Soda

PHOTOS: Mumbai Falls In Love All Over Again With Its Forgotten Fountains

Apr 11, 2021
They're majestic. They're neglected. And now they're slowly being fixed up. Conservationists are preserving them — and officials hope the fountains will supply free water for the city's impoverished.
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The Picture Show
<em>Kobe memorial piece in progress</em>
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Black Enterprise, Tradition And Culture At The Bronner Bros. Hair Show

Apr 11, 2021
Photographer Rahim Fortune visited the Bronner Bros. hair show in Atlanta in February 2020. He says he found a "sense of Black entrepreneurship in the space."
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TED Radio Hour
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Amanda Williams: How Can Color Bring New Life To Old Houses?

Apr 09, 2021
Back in 2015, Chicago's Englewood neighborhood was lined with blocks of houses tagged for demolition. Before they were torn down, artist Amanda Williams used color to bring them back to life.
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Art Where You're At
Niki de Saint Phalle in September 1967
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How Niki De Saint Phalle Channeled Pain Into Joyful, Vibrant Works Of Art

Apr 08, 2021
The artist said she learned to "translate emotions, fear, violence, hope and joy into painting." An exhibition of her work is now on view at MoMa PS1 in New York.
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Business
Saks Fifth Avenue is joining a growing list of retailers and brands to phase out animal fur.
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Saks Says No To Fur, The Latest Fashion Seller To Go Fur-Free

Apr 07, 2021
Saks Fifth Avenue will phase out sales of animal-fur products, joining other retailers such as Macy's that are responding to growing anti-fur sentiment among shoppers.
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Art Where You're At
Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969.
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With 'Fierce Poise,' Helen Frankenthaler Poured Beauty Onto Canvas

Mar 23, 2021
Abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler poured pools of highly diluted pigments onto her raw canvases. Biographer Alexander Nemerov says her paintings are "about feeling the world."
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The Picture Show
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Visualizing Gentrification In 'Remnants Of An Exodus'

Mar 21, 2021
Photographer Al J Thompson came of age in a community of Caribbean immigrants in Spring Valley, N.Y. His new book Remnants of an Exodus documents his return to a changed community.
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Architecture
Winter gardens and balconies were added to expand living space in <a href="https://www.lacatonvassal.com/index.php?idp=80">social buildings</a> in Bordeaux in 2017.
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2021 Pritzker Prize Goes To French Architects Who 'Work With Kindness'

Mar 16, 2021
Often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Architecture," this year's Pritzker was awarded to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, a design pair who emphasize re-use and equitable housing.
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Ask Me Another
Brothers Travis, Griffin, and Justin McElroy.
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McElroy Brothers

Mar 12, 2021
Hosts of the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy play trivia games about Dungeons & Dragons and talk about their new book Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You).
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Designer Rabih Kayrouz says he's going back to basics with his new collection.
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The Autumn-Winter Shows Must Go On: Paris Fashion Week In The Time Of Corona

Mar 11, 2021
Pandemic restrictions are in full swing in Paris, but Fashion Week has pressed on with a mix of digital presentations and real-life shows for this year's fall and winter womenswear collections.
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Art Where You're At
Frida Kahlo,<em> Diego and Frida 1929 – 1944,</em> 1944, oil on masonite with original painted shell frame, private collection, courtesy Galería Arvi
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5 Lesser-Known, Late-In-Life Works By Frida Kahlo Now On View In Dallas

Mar 08, 2021
"In this difficult period, people feel a strong connection to Kahlo's sorrows and triumphs," says Dallas Museum of Art curator Mark A. Castro. Kahlo made these paintings as her health deteriorated.
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The Picture Show
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'Year of the Beast': How Tara Wray Used Photography To 'Process Fear And Uncertainty'

Mar 07, 2021
Wray explores the difficulties of 2020, balancing the pandemic, family and work through her photography in a new book. She hopes "people will see themselves ... or loved ones in these pictures."
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Goats and Soda

How Bubonic Plague Reshaped The Streets Of Mumbai

Mar 07, 2021
The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.
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The Picture Show
Chanell Stone photographs places like overgrown lots and green spaces at public housing projects, often including herself in the frame. Above, "In search of a certain Eden," 2019, Brooklyn.
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Housing Projects And Empty Lots. How Chanell Stone Is Reframing Nature Photography

Feb 27, 2021
Chanell Stone wants to change how people think about nature photography. "As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren't for us," she says. "I want to turn that idea on its head."
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Race

Young Artist Honors Black Icons With Playing Cards

Feb 26, 2021
A 22-year-old Kansas City artist, Kearra Johnson, transforms a school art project into a tribute to Black history – a standard playing card deck with face cards that portray African American icons.
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Architecture
The skyline of Washington, D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and National Mall, seen on June 15, 2014.
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President Biden Revokes Trump's Controversial Classical Architecture Order

Feb 25, 2021
The announcement from The White House was included in an executive order that revoked a number of Trump's actions as president. Trump had aimed to promote traditional design for federal buildings.
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Art Where You're At
Deborah Willis, <em>I Made Space For a Good Man,</em> 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35
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In One Art Exhibition, Women Are 'Taking Space' They've Long Deserved

Feb 25, 2021
Works by female artists are center stage at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in an exhibition called Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale.
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Fine Art
Amy Sherald, who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama, appeared in the film <em>Black Art: In the Absence of Light.</em>
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'Black Art' Chronicles A Pivotal Exhibition And Its Lasting Impact On Black Artists

Feb 24, 2021
A 1976 exhibit of art created by African Americans was the first major show by a Black curator and serves as a starting point for the HBO documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light.
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Television

HBO's 'Black Art' Indicts The Forces That Marginalize It

Feb 23, 2021
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to director Sam Pollard about the HBO documentary, Black Art: In the Absence of Light. The film celebrates the rich history of art by Black Americans.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Visitors wear masks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in October. The museum's director says the Met is considering selling art to pay for operating expenses.
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The Met Considers Selling Its Art To Stave Off Financial Shortfall

Feb 22, 2021
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art faces a shortfall of $150 million. Museum Director Max Hollein tells NPR that the Met is considering selling art to cover operating expenses.
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