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Pope Leo XIV meets with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the end of the Inauguration Mass in St. Peter’s Square on May 18, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Photo Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images On Sunday, following his first Sunday mass as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV met …

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Sebastiao Salgado. Photo Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images Sebastiao Salgado, a photographer whose memorable images of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses gained him widespread acclaim, has died at 81. His death was announced on Friday by Instituto Terra, the organization he cofounded with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado. The New York Times reported …

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CAMBRIDGE, MA – JUNE 20: Shonrael Lanier, a descendant of former slave Renty Taylor, holds a sign at a press conference held at Harvard University to talk about the lawsuit that the family has filed against the university in Cambridge, MA on June 20, 2019. Under cover from a torrential downpour, two families came together …

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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A group of artists participating in the Whitney Museum‘s Independent Study Program (ISP) have withdrawn their work from a capstone exhibition at Westbeth Gallery in protest of the institution’s cancellation of a pro-Palestine performance. The Whitney announced the cancellation of No Aesthetics …

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Vincent van Gogh, The Sower at Sunset, 1888. De Agostini via Getty Images Vincent van Gogh made a surprise appearance at the first address by Pope Leo XIV—in spirit, at least. On Wednesday, the Chicago native’s speech pondered the Post-Impressionist’s 1888 painting, The Sower at Sunset, in which a sinking celestial body washes a field …

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Pro-Palestine demonstrators occupying the Whitney Museum lobby on May 23. Tessa Solomon/ARTnews The lobby of the Whitney Museum in New York became the site of a protest by arts and culture workers on Friday (May 23) following the institution’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestine performance. The protest, which was announced on Instagram by the group Writers …

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The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd. AFP via Getty Images Nikolai Chesnokov, chancellor of Moscow’s State Academy of Physical Education, died on Thursday at the site of a World War II–era monument in the Russian city of Volgograd, according to reports in the local media. He was 68. Chesnokov had traveled to the city to …

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Vessel supported by two rams. Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that it will return three ancient sculptures to Iraq, dating from 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. They are estimated to be collectively worth $500,000. The items are a Sumerian vessel …

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The exterior view of the Guggenheim Museum designed by architect Frank Gehry in Bilbao, Spain. Photo Joaquin Gomez Sastre / NurPhoto via Getty Images The Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands launched a campaign to protect the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve from an extension of the Guggenheim Museum, which has been trying to expand its Bilbao outpost. “A …

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Tauric Chersonese in Crimea, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ©Tauric Chersonese National Preserve The European Union has sanctioned a Russian museum for the first time. On Tuesday, the EU released its latest round of sanctions against Russia, which includes the “Tauric Chersonese” State Museum-Preserve on the outskirts of the city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Its …

EU Sanctions Russian Museum in Crimea for ‘Helping Deliver Supplies to Frontlines’ in Ukraine Read More »