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USA, a monument torn down during Black Lives Matter protests will be put back in place

The National Park Service (NPS), a U.S. federal agency responsible for managing national parks and monuments, has announced the start of restoration and subsequent reinstallation of the bronze statue of Albert Pike, an American general and author who...
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Trump withdraws US from UNESCO (again): 'Not in US national interest'

The United States has formally announced its intention to withdraw fromUNESCO, the United Nations agency dedicated to education, science and culture. The organization's director-general, Audrey Azoulay, received the official communication from Washin...
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Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson will create new sculptures for the Metropolitan Museum's historic facade

It will be artist Jeffrey Gibson (Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1972), a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, who will create new sculptures for the niches of the New York Metropolitan Museum 's Fifth Avenue facade...
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US, Trump administration closes the National Museum of the Environment: the reason? "It costs too much"

The National Environmental Museum and Education Center, a museum dedicated to U.S. environmental history located inside theEnvironmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Its closure was decreed by Lee Zeldin, the federal ag...
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Donated to the Art Institute of Chicago one of the most prestigious private collections of French art in the U.S.

TheArt Institute of Chicago will be enriched by the most prestigious private collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the great French masters of the 16th to 19th centuries in the United States, thanks to the extraordinary donation of Jeff...
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In Cold Spring the first retrospective in the United States dedicated to Maria Lai

Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring (New York) presents Maria Lai. A Journey to America, the first retrospective in the United States dedicated to one of the most significant figures in Italian art of the second half of the 20th century. The multifa...
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Mellon Foundation funds $25 million for artists and culture on U.S.-Mexico border

The Mellon Foundation has launched the Frontera Culture Fund, a $25 million initiative aimed at supporting creative work and cultural heritage in the U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as in tribal communities. This area, which stretches nearly 2,000...
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Sistine Chapel goes on world tour with life-size and high-definition reproductions

Through February 20, 2022, the traveling event Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. The Exhibition that brings more than thirty reproductions of the Sistine Chapel frescoes around the world makes a stop at the Fashion District in Philadelphia. A world tour...
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