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Life in limbo: Photographer documents ‘Kafka-esque’ migrant experience

Shot over the course of three years, Felipe Romero Beltrán’s photos humanize the experiences of nine young Moroccan migrants living at a government facility in Spain.

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Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-winning novelist, hospitalized with Covid-19

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Robot takes podium as orchestra conductor in South Korea

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Christina Quarles, the multiracial queer painter transforming the art of the nude

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Art-loving Helsinki deputy mayor caught graffitiing the city

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Judy Blume’s books were formative for generations of readers. Here’s why they endure

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BMW taps artist Julie Mehretu to paint its latest Art Car

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Steeped in history and race, Gary Simmons’ ghostly artworks are timeless — and all too timely

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Scholar finds doodles made by Henry VIII in ancient prayer book

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This Norwegian couple’s playful, gender-defying portraits were discovered by chance, decades after their deaths

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After 25 years and $185m, Spain’s new Royal Collections Museum is finally opening

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Rubens painting ‘lost’ for centuries could sell for $7.7 million

Diversity takes center stage at the new National Portrait Gallery in London

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

He says China tried to shut down his art exhibit. Hear his response

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Brooke Shields: ‘Most of my movies you couldn’t make today’

Woman crafts over 400 clay heads to demonstrate a disturbing statistic

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How cellist Yo-Yo Ma is trying to bring us together

Lightroom - David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

Immersive technology allows viewers to surround themselves in famous art

Johannes Vermeer

Never to be repeated Vermeer exhibition stuns with scientific revelations

‘I don’t have anything to prove’: Ian McKellen on his pantomime and next Shakespeare challenge

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British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or acknowledgment

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Nigerian AI artist creates a fashion show for elderly people

Unseen photos of Glastonbury from 1971 show just how much the festival has changed

‘The idea of what makes an American movie is changing’: Celine Song and the cast of ‘Past Lives’ on love, loss and ‘inyeon’

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Mbongeni Buthelezi: The South African artist turning plastic into portraits

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Forget fridge magnets. Amsterdam’s Rembrandt museum is offering visitors a tattoo of the master’s work

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Li Cunxin, ‘Mao’s Last Dancer,’ to step away from ballet due to ‘serious health concerns’

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He felt like an outsider in his own country. So he dressed up as Captain America to change how others see him