Arts

Embrace, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial sculpture at Boston Common

A ‘masturbatory metal homage’

Why are people angry about the new monument honoring MLK and Coretta Scott King's love story?

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Brigid Kennedy

'Let them throw soup'?

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NYFW

The biggest moments of New York Fashion Week 2022

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Briefing

New York's new Nazi stolen art law, explained

A woman holds "Head of a Peasant Woman."

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surprise!

X-ray of painting reveals secret Van Gogh self-portrait

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Noah Millman

The pictures got small — maybe that's okay

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Michael Arceneaux

Jeen-yuhs and the Kanye question

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Brendan Morrow

The Book of Boba Fett has a Mandalorian problem

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Samuel Goldman

The show The Gilded Age could have been

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Johnsplaining

John Oliver uncorks a long-simmering rant about The Da Vinci Code

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Ryan Cooper

The NFT craze has stopped being funny

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Rest in Peace

Virgil Abloh, fashion designer and artistic polymath, is dead at 41

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that's a lot of money

Frida Kahlo's 'Diego y yo' self-portrait sells for $34.9 million, shattering records

"The Greatness of Mexico" exhibition at the Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology

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back home

Mexico recovers illegally exported pre-Hispanic artifacts from Italy

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Nobels

Nobel literature prize awarded to post-colonial novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Joel Mathis

Hunter Biden's fraught art career

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Photos

The week's best photojournalism

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Jeva Lange

What will be the flapper dress of the Roaring 2020s?

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Jeva Lange

The 1 big change the Oscars should keep

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Photos

20 years of pop culture, in 20 striking photos

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Photos

The past 20 years, in 20 striking photos

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Jeva Lange

The Best Actress Oscar race is wild

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