Fragment of the tomb of Beltrán de la Cueva, now in the posession of the Cúellar City Council in Spain. Courtesy Cuéllar City Council. In 1904, the Convent of San Francisco in Cuéllar, Spain collapsed, burying more than just stone and mortar. Under the rubble lay a masterpiece of early Spanish Renaissance sculpture—the alabaster funerary …
Daniel Arsham’s 1961 Eroded Ferrari GT at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Photo Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Artist Daniel Arsham is suing the rapper Quavo and his record label Quality Control Music, along with parent company HYBE America, of copyright infringement and a violation of right of publicity. …
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard, 1978. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California will present a retrospective for the late artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha next year, making it …
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Good bank? $TRUMP has shed billions. AFP via Getty Images New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit—alongside 20 other attorneys general—against the Trump administration over an executive order that effectively shuts down three federal agencies responsible for supporting libraries, museums, minority-owned businesses, and labor mediation services. At the center of the lawsuit …
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It’s unclear why a RISD student’s visa was revoked. Courtesy of RISD An international student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) recently had their visa revoked, but the institution was not told the reason why, according to a letter from college president Crystal Williams. “Amid the current landscape of rapidly changing immigration policies, …
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The Smithsonian Museum has bowed to Trump’s executive order. Photo Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Headlines THE SMITHSONIAN DRAMA CONTINUES, with the Washington Post reporting yesterday that Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been on leave since March 14 and will be out of office indefinitely. It’s unclear whether Young’s …
Bernhard Maaz, the director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, has departed his post amid controversy. Photo Sina Schuldt/picture alliance via Getty Images The Bavaria State Painting Collections, an organization that stewards famed paintings shown at many of Munich’s top museums, is currently the subject of further controversy in Germany following a change in its …
The amulet found in the area surrounding Beit Shemesh, a city outside Jerusalem. Courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority A little girl happened upon a 3,800-year-old amulet while she was hiking with her family outside Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said last week. Ziv Nitzvan, 3, discovered the amulet in the area around Beit Shemesh, a city …
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Tthe tomb of a high-ranking military commander dating back to the reign of King Ramses III Courtesy, Egyptian State Information Service An Egyptian archaeological team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has unearthed the tomb of a high-ranking military commander dating back to the reign of King Ramesses III (ca. 1184 BCE–1153 BCE). The …
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Kevin Young. Photo Nick Hunt/Getty Images for MVAAFF Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has been on personal leave since March 14, and will continue to be out of office indefinitely, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the news on Wednesday. The …
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