Lost Maya stronghold against Spanish conquest discovered in Mexican jungle – The Art Newspaper
The likely site of a lost city believed to be the final refuge of the Lacandon Ch’ol Maya community may ...
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More than 200 geoglyphs discovered in Nazca Desert with help of AI – The Art Newspaper
An international team led by Japan’s Yamagata University and IBM, in collaboration with Peruvian researchers, has announced the discovery of ...
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Rediscovered David Wojnarowicz mural could disappear from view again – The Art Newspaper
A large mural by David Wojnarowicz (1954-92) that was rediscovered in a building in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2022 could be ...
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Collapse of Ancient Maya civilization coincided with 13-year-drought – The Art Newspaper
A 13-year drought may have played a role in the collapse of ancient Maya civilization. By analysing a stalagmite found ...
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Christophe de Menil, art patron and heiress to the Menil Collection’s founders, has died, aged 92 – The Art Newspaper
Christophe de Menil, the Parisian-born fashion designer and renowned art collector, died at age 92 last week at home in ...
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‘He considered war to be the culmination of anti-human power’: Ukrainian artist David Chichkan killed on frontline – The Art Newspaper
David Chichkan, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary artists, whose life and work were inseparable from his devotion to the ...
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‘Pornographic’ mermaid statue must be removed, Danish government confirms – The Art Newspaper
A statue of a mermaid in Dragør Fort, Copenhagen, which has recently faced criticised for its sexualised depiction of the ...
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Comment | US museums are finally going bilingual: here’s why it matters – The Art Newspaper
It has never been easier to find bad news about US museums (or anything else in the world, for that ...
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Satirical protest campaign claims a man is trapped inside Anish Kapoor’s Chicago Bean sculpture – The Art Newspaper
Is it social-media satire, or a legume-timate movement? A group of activists calling itself the Man in Bean Coalition is ...
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Revealed: the long-suppressed stories of the world’s oldest slave ship – The Art Newspaper
Years after the transatlantic slave trade was criminalised, a ship known as the Camargo transported more than 500 enslaved Africans ...
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