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Ruth Asawa Turned Wire Into Her Lifeline
Her undulating looped-wire sculptures and drawings of flowers hint at personal depths, in a major retrospective at MoMA.
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Frida Kahlo Portrait Sells for $55 Million, Setting Her Auction Record
The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage deteriorated.
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Arthur Jafa Crafts a Mixtape from MoMA’s Art
In “Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa,” the artist mines the museum’s vaults for an exhibition that gives new meaning to what he found there.
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After 167 Years in New York, a Priceless Coin Collection Heads to Toledo
The doubloons, dollars and denarii of the American Numismatic Society will leave their overlooked home in Manhattan for a more welcoming headquarters on the campus of the Toledo Museum of Art.
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After the Louvre Heist, the Museum’s President Defends Her Tenure
In one of her very few interviews since the museum heist, Laurence des Cars said the plan would increase much-needed security, but critics say it is too focused on new construction.
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Ted Danson Goes Back to School in the Charming Second Season of Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside”
My favorite episode of the beautifully written and deeply humanistic Season 2 of the Netflix mystery-comedy-drama series “A Man on the Inside” is a “bottle episode,” i.e., an interlude limited to just a couple of primary sets, with the main plot on hold as we delve into a lovely and poignant ensemble character study. Ted…
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I’m Just An Actor: Rebuilding Roles with Josh O’Connor
It’s not uncommon for actors to have multiple projects come out in a given year; it’s rarer for three of them to be released within weeks of each other. That’s the world that British actor Josh O’Connor is living in. He starred in four projects this year: as musician David White in Oliver Hermanus’ “The…
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WhatsApp compromise leads to Astaroth deployment
Another campaign targeting WhatsApp users in Brazil spreads like a worm and employs multiple payloads for credential theft, session hijacking, and persistence
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The Moon Was an Inside Job
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.
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How to Make That Restaurant Dessert at Home? Ask David Lebovitz.
David Lebovitz has built a loyal following online with recipes that offer shortcuts but make no compromises.