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A 16 foot sculpture of a pigeon named dinosaur at the Highline in New York City on November 4, 2024. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/AFP)

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Arts And Culture

The Big Pigeon Isn’t Scary Enough

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Kelsey McKinney

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Risk Week

What Do You Risk In Revisiting A Piece Of Culture You Once Loved?

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A woman stands in front of a Sol LeWitt wall drawing at the Venice Biennale in 1976.

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Who Owns An Idea?

Argentina, Patagonia, Rio Pinturas, Cueva de las Manos

Argentina, Patagonia, Rio Pinturas, Cueva de las Manos, cave paintings

The Machines

Whatever AI Looks Like, It’s Not

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Rachelle Hampton

Visitors examine the exhibition as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presents the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transtlantic Modernism which includes some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera in New York, United States on February 20, 2024.The exhibition opens in Black History Month, is honoring the triumphs and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history.

Exhibition on Harlem Renaissance at the Met Museum

Girl, Uninterrupted

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Lauren Theisen

A man looks at the oil painting "Beer Garden with A.K." (2009) by Nicole Eisenman

Painting 2.0 exhibition in Munich

The Beauty Of The Ordinary Is There For The Painting

Mary Cassatt's "In The Loge" - a woman in the late 1800s uses opera glasses to look at something from a theater box, while a man looks at her from a distance

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<p>Heather Chen is a former Defector intern and the sports editor at the <em>Columbia Daily Spectator</em>. She loves hockey, photography, and the good ol’ state of Michigan.</p>


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Heather Wei-Xi Chen

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I Love This Painting That Looks Like Blood

The statue of Victoire de Samothrace portrays the Greek goddess Nike on August 20 in Paris, France. (Photo by Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Wings Week

I Would Die To Save The Winged Victory Of Samothrace

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The City Lives In The Earth Room

Samuel John Peploe, R.S.A's 'Pink Rose in a Glass Vase with Fruit' is hung on a wall for auction.

Sotheby’s Modern British & Irish Art Exhibition

Everyone Loses When We Start Talking About Art Like It’s Real Estate

Vincent Namatjira (Western Aranda people) with Vincent Namatjira: Australia in colour, installation view

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Australian Billionaire Not Rich Enough To Control Art

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