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Harvard Hillel celebrates Passover with a massive 9-foot Seder Plate in Science Center Plaza. This sculpture, by Michael Mittelman, redefines Jewish identity through its unique iconography.
The Library of Congress just acquired a rare 1855 drawing and lithograph of Yosemite Falls by Gold Rush artist Thomas Almond Ayres, a stunning historical find.
BTS took over NYC's iconic Guggenheim Museum on March 25, turning its galleries into a performance art stage! They sang and danced to "SWIM" and another track from their new album, ARIRANG.
The Hirshhorn Museum unveils its first acquisitions for the redesigned sculpture garden, reopening in October. Expect contemporary art from Mark Grotjahn, Lauren Halsey, and more in Hiroshi Sugimoto's overhaul.
See Rubens's Marie de' Medici cycle at the Louvre before fall! These masterpieces, considered his career high watermark, vanish for four years for the museum's most ambitious restoration ever.
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Switzerland's Museum Rietberg returned 11 looted artifacts to Nigeria. These are a fraction of thousands stolen in the 1897 British raid on the Kingdom of Benin, now sought for repatriation.
Amid rising global complexity, Hong Kong's Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Rosanna Law, declared culture "transcends borders" at the Hong Kong International Cultural Summit.
Ancient graffiti in Egypt's Valley of the Kings reveals a 2,000-year tradition of visitors marking their presence. This popular Nile destination has drawn travelers for millennia.
Blind visitors touched the "Veiled Christ" and other marble masterpieces at a Naples museum. "Wonder within reach" removed barriers, allowing them to experience art by hand for the first time.
Keanu Reeves: humble star, fan favorite. In 2020, 15-year-old Bianca Mitchell-Avila's New York Times quote about "The Queen's Gambit" sparked a Reddit post from her father, Jack Mitchell.
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Test your trivia with Kennections! Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings created this quiz where all five answers share a secret connection. Can you solve it?
London's "Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold" exhibition blends 3,000-year-old artifacts with VR, transporting you to 13th-century B.C.E. Egypt.
London's post-fire rebuilding and Restoration-era stagecraft: UC Berkeley Professor Julia Fawcett reveals how these two forces mirrored each other, redefining both performance and urban life.
Forget what you think you know about ancient European art. A new Harvard Art Museums exhibition challenges perceptions of "Celtic" art, exploring the complex history of diverse peoples.
Crowds once gathered under towering 164-foot arcades. Earthquakes and unstable foundations brought these colossal structures down long ago.
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A mysterious cellar, possibly from a 1888-demolished manor, was found near the 13th hole at England's Davyhulme Park Golf Club.
Born June 11, 1776, in East Bergholt, Suffolk, painter John Constable's deep ties to his homeland, community, and art are celebrated by Ipswich's "Constable 250.
A lost Renaissance masterpiece is found! The Met acquired Rosso Fiorentino's "Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist" after conservation revealed Saint John beneath layers of paint.
Graham revolutionized dance. In the late 1920s, she dared to make it express authentic human emotions, a truly groundbreaking idea.
Experience Normandy's seasons in London! A new exhibition, "A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting," centers on an artwork depicting the region's changing beauty.
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Chess: a 1,500-year equalizer where skill trumps all. Yet, this egalitarian ideal often crumbles beyond the board, as history shows.
Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg is the new Artistic Director for London's Royal Academy of Arts, starting in June. She'll oversee exhibitions, collections, and public programs.
French art dealer Kamel Mennour just bought Galerie Malingue, taking over its 4,300 sq ft showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon. A new generation takes the reins in Paris's art scene.
Late pregnancy aches? Your baby's due any minute, but looking cute feels impossible. Sometimes people help, other times, savage toddlers make it worse. Just ask Amy von Gillern.
Decades of detective work culminate in a new Buffalo exhibition! See the original furnishings, some designed by the architect himself, finally returned home.
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Powerhouse Arts, a Brooklyn creative hub, names Liz Munsell VP of Curatorial and Arts Programs. She replaces Diya Vij, now NYC's cultural affairs commissioner. Munsell will expand exhibitions and residencies.
A graffiti artist allergic to flowers? Meet Mr. Flower Fantastic, the secret floral designer whose new orchid show is a vibrant ode to NYC.
A lost El Greco masterpiece, "The Redeemer," has been discovered at the Vatican! Restorers Alessandra Zarelli and Paolo Violini uncovered the late 1500s painting beneath an unknown artist's overpaint.
The viral "What were you like in the '90s?" trend is flooding social media with celebrity throwbacks set to the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris." Relive the magic of overalls, flannels, and chunky shoes.
Egidio Marzona, the German-Italian collector who defined 20th-century avant-garde art, has died at 81 in Berlin. His vast holdings shaped how we study and display modern art.
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Chicago's art scene faces a major shift: Madeleine Grynsztejn, MCA director for 18 years, departs at year-end. Her tenure brought celebrated retrospectives and massive institutional growth.
Trevor Paglen just won the Guggenheim LG Award, a $100,000 prize for tech-minded artists. This massive sum will fund his expensive, groundbreaking work on surveillance technology and AI.
Harvard College is a poetry powerhouse! Home to a current and two former National Youth Poet Laureates, including Evan Wang '29, the legacy began with Amanda Gorman '20.
Tate's four museums unveiled their 2027 exhibitions, highlighted by Tate Modern's first solo Monet show, "Monet: Painting Time," featuring his iconic water lilies.
A dystopian short about saliva and a musical comedy tied for Best Live Action Short Oscar! Alexandre Singh & Natalie Musteata's "Two People Exchanging Saliva" shared the win with "The Singers.
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Forget baby books and trends. Some parents give their child a piece of rock 'n' roll history mere seconds after they’re born.
At 50, epidemiologist Janet Rich-Edwards discovered a new calling: novelist. A single Radcliffe lecture sparked "Canticle," her debut that's now earning raves.
Vladimir Nabokov never typed a word. His wife Vera typed every novel—including "Lolita" and "Pale Fire"—before editors saw them. A new exhibit reveals the invisible women behind literary masterworks.
A Charleston museum has acquired the earliest known photographs of enslaved Americans—15 daguerreotypes from 1850 showing seven identified individuals, including a father-daughter pair.
The Oscars may spotlight Trump and oil politics, but will anyone dare mention climate change?