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Can the British Museum Lend Its Way Out of Criticisms Over Its Colonial Holdings?

The British Museum. Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images The British Museum is sending some of its prized art and artifacts on long-term loan to countries that the British Empire previously colonized. While those nations have long called for the repatriation of objects they consider stolen, the institution may be hoping to blunt some of …

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How Artists Responded to 2025’s Surging ICE Raids

A demonstrator holds up a reproduction of Patrick Martinez’s Abolish Ice (2018/2021) at an anti-ICE demonstration in downtown Los Angeles, June 2025. Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles We often look back on past moral crises and imagine ourselves acting differently: resisting sooner, refusing silence, choosing courage over complicity. It’s a reassuring fiction, …

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Bay Area Artist Mildred Howard to Receive Major Retrospective at Oakland Museum of California

Mildred Howard in her Oakland studio, 2025. Photo Christine Cueto/Courtesy Oakland Museum of California The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will stage a major retrospective for Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, opening next June. Titled “Poetics of Memory,” the exhibition will bring together work from across five decades of Howard’s career and will also debut …

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David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay Team Up for New Art Thriller, ‘Heist of Benin’

Ava DuVernay (left) and David Oyelowo. Photo JC Olivera/Apple TV+ via Getty Images David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.” Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love …

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Using AI and Abstract Paintings, WangShui Is on a Journey to Understand Love

WangShui. Photo Jose Peas Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative abstract paintings made with the assistance of AI, positions themself less as a geek than a hermit with a romantic worldview. …

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Who Was Auguste Rodin and Why Was His Sculpture So Revolutionary?

Dornac (Paul Francois Arnold Cardon), Auguste Rodin seated beside his work in his studio Collection Archives Larousse, Paris. Digital image: Bridgeman Images. Aside from Michelangelo, there’s no artist as synonymous with sculpture as Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). He created an art-historical icon—The Thinker—that rivals Leonardo’s Mona Lisa for pop-cultural fame. But more than this, he set …

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