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Arts, Culture & Media
Latvian animated film, ‘Flow,’ nominated for Oscars
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Japan in Focus
Japan awakens for the global art market
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Image from a poster depicting a toucan at the new exhibition, "Imaginary Amazon," at the University of San Diego, featuring works by contemporary artists, many of them Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon. 
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Imaginary Amazon’ exhibition counters negative stereotypes through contemporary art
a man standing in front of a colorful bottle cap mural
Arts
Venezuelan artist uses recycled bottle caps to create large eco-murals
This year's Eid stamp design released by Canada Post.
Lifestyle & Belief
Canada unveils a first-of-a-kind Eid stamp this year
Artwork by Nelli Isupova, who lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Arts
A family of artists expresses how the war in Ukraine impacts their creative work
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra rehearses at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland, the day before the premiere performance of the "Voice of Ukraine" tour that took them to nine cities across Poland and Germany
Arts, Culture & Media
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra fights on the war’s ‘cultural front’
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei walks by his work "Life Cycle", a migrants' boat made of bamboo, during a press preview of his new exhibition "Rapture" in Lisbon, Portugal
Arts, Culture & Media
A new memoir by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei honors his father’s poetry and politics
Kunsthalle Osnabrück co-director Anna Jehle sits near colorful stained-glass windows inside a church.
Arts, Culture & Media
The perplexing acoustics of an art show in northwest Germany
Anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs
Justice
‘Obliged to exile’: Cuban activist Tania Bruguera on the plight of artist Hamlet Lavastida
Wide shot of snowy barren land with a white car parked in the middle
Top of The World
Contentious Keystone XL pipeline project canceled
On the exterior of the building, the stencil of a stag created by the artist MAD stands solemnly, with pieces of women's underwear hanging from its horns. 
Arts
Temporary art exhibit pays homage to an Istanbul apartment building scheduled for demolition 
The Mary Wollstonecraft statue by artist Maggi Hambling is pictured in Newington Green, London, Britain, Nov. 11, 2020.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘It’s a sculpture of an idea’: Activist defends nude statue honoring Mary Wollstonecraft amid backlash
A padlock motif on fabric produced by Ghana Textiles Printing represents the lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19
This Ghanaian company is producing fabric with motifs inspired by COVID-19
Art pieces a scammer claimed were photographed in Cameroon and authorized by UNESCO for sale and export. The art collector paid 6,000 euros before calling UNESCO and realizing the fraud.
Arts
UNESCO says scammers are using its logo to defraud art collectors
Faithful photographic reproduction of Edvard Munch's painting, "Self-Portrait with Spanish Flu."
Coronavirus Art
Art, poetry and … zombies? The surprising cultural contributions of the 1918 influenza pandemic
A painting of a woman
Coronavirus Art
During social distancing, artists collaborate on ‘Long Distance Art’
Nighthawks
Arts, Culture & Media
American Icons: Nighthawks
a boat made by a Guantanamo Bay detainee
Arts
The art made by Guantánamo Bay detainees
Art Wolfe penguins
Arts
40 years of documenting Earth’s beauty
Members of the Catalonian band, Txarango
Music
Identity politics and music from a band in Catalonia
Child on beach
Science
Why are humans so curious?
The Forgotten Man
Arts
This protest art under Obama made one artist a right-wing icon
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera has been arrested by authorities in Havana three times in recent years.
Global Politics
Cuba’s most controversial artist sketches the island’s post-Fidel future
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Arts
Nick Offerman crowns a winner of the Ultimate Popsicle Stick Throwdown
The exterior of the new Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
Arts
LA’s newest museum is a palace for modern art
Pope Francis and Cuba's President Raul Castro confer in Havana on Sunday.
Arts
Cuban artists ask why their government won’t let them create
A part of "Galilee Landscape."
Arts
Meet the man who broke into a museum — to hang his artwork
Amar Bakshi (second from right), the lead artist on the Portal Between Tehran and NYC; and Michelle Moghtader (second from left), the project's development director. Bakshi says his mother and uncle, also seen here, helped out a lot too.
Arts
This New York art installation opens up a new gateway to Tehran
Artist Susan Crile stands with a study for a painting of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Business
A court rules that being an artist really is a business — maybe
Mark Landis at work on a “Picasso."
Arts
When is art forgery not a crime? When the forger is a philanthropist
Llareta
Environment
One woman traveled the world for 10 years to find the oldest living things on Earth
A photo from Marrakesh photo museum series
Arts, Culture & Media
Morocco will soon be home to the world’s largest museum devoted to photography
Global Scan
Another gang rape in India, with a complex twist
"Los Olvidados" is just one of many guerrilla-style art installations by Ramiro Gomez. The LA-based artist focuses his work on the country's often unnoticed immigrant laborers.
Arts, Culture & Media
How an LA artist brings often unseen immigrant workers into the public eye
The 18th century Chinese jade censer that was stolen from the Fogg Museum in 1979 has been returned to the Harvard Art Museums.
Arts, Culture & Media
An 18th century Chinese jade censer, stolen from Harvard in 1979, has finally been returned
Arts, Culture & Media
Computer Art
Arts, Culture & Media
Art still a good investment
Building Music
Art as Good as Money in Copenhagen
Green Art
Arts, Culture & Media
The Art Instinct
Arts, Culture & Media
The Art Instinct
Business, Economics and Jobs
Art is still a good invetsment