Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (2024), was beaten by Israeli settlers and taken by soldiers who held him at a military base overnight, according to the film’s co-directors.

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Gertrude Abercrombie once wrote, “Art has to be real crazy, real personal and real real, or it is nowhere.” Unjustly marginalized since her death in 1977, her darkly surreal work will hopefully be rediscovered by in a retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
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A team of scientists have determined how the brain of a victim of Mount Vesuvius’s 79 CE eruption was turned into glass.
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Could Hilma af Klint’s Works Be Removed From Public View? The artist’s great-grandnephew and foundation board chair stressed in an interview with Hyperallergic that the works should only be seen by “spiritual seekers.” hyperallergic.com/996351/could...

Who was Manuel Sandoval, the forgotten artisan behind Frank Lloyd Wright? Artist Ryan Preciado has been unearthing the story of this Nicaraguan crafter whose important contributions to 20th-century modernist design have long been buried. hyperallergic.com/991720/the-f...

Andy Warhol’s mother, Julia Warhola, was a Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant and an artist in her own right who rarely gets the credit she deserves for her influence on her son’s career.

Learn more about her story here: https://shorturl.at/T88lf

Laid off? Don’t fret! You’re actually being “promoted outwards.” At least, that’s according to billionaire CEO and art collector Bernard Arnault, who generously plans to provide scores of employees with the “the opportunity to embrace new challenges beyond our organizations.”

Did you know the "Happy Birthday" song was from Kentucky?

Read the article by 2024 Craft Archive Fellows Jenna Richards and Michelle Amos about the Little Loomhouse, part of our series on underrepresented craft histories in collaboration with the Center for Craft: https://bit.ly/3EHer94

Luke Farritor, the 23-year-old used AI to decode a Greco-Roman scroll from Pompeii, is reportedly part of the team leading Musk’s chaotic takeover of government systems. But why? Read the full story by Maya Pontone: buff.ly/4gBzgAn

Did you know that human beings have been tattooing for thousands of years? Archaeologists have discovered only the second known example of a tattoo from Medieval Nubia, which some experts say could be evidence of a continued tradition from millennia earlier in Ancient Egypt #tattoos #history

Did you know that before Georgia O'Keeffe made her most famous Southwestern desert paintings, she was making work about...New York City? #GeorgiaOKeeffe