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“The Drummer Boy on Independence Day,” by E. L. Doctorow

“The Drummer Boy on Independence Day,” by E. L. Doctorow

I have often told the story of what happened that day, and each time, in the telling, I see John Sewetti standing in the middle of that trapped, crumpled parade of people, as if he should have been wearing a sheet and sandals, the way those walking saints of India do, or holding a staff and carrying two stone tablets under his arm.


Austin gallerists boosting local art scene with joint collectors’ circle

Austin gallerists boosting local art scene with joint collectors’ circle

One of Austin’s longtime gallery patrons is Chris Tomlinson, a Hearst Newspapers columnist who, along with his wife, Shalini Ramanathan, acquires work by local artists of his generation.


Amid deaccessioning scandal and falling enrollment, Valparaiso University shuts down campus museum

Amid deaccessioning scandal and falling enrollment, Valparaiso University shuts down campus museum

A request to learn if the museum is being closed permanently or just temporarily was not answered by anyone in president Padilla’s office, although the petition described creating an art gallery in a renovated dormitory’s common reading room.


After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname

After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname

The spelling of Gnatalie (pronounced like “Natalie”) reflects the gruelling work of the palaeontologists who extracted the fossil—the most complete sauropod skeleton on the US’s West Coast—from a riverbed in the Badlands of Utah, where they endured a relentless assault of gnats.


Haruki Murakami on Raising Questions

Haruki Murakami on Raising Questions

He’s described at one point as “an anteater licking an anthill clean”; later, he talks about spiders that eat cockroaches and marvels at how “magnificent the structure of the food chain is.” Is he a predator who gets nourishment from the destruction he causes?


Laser scanning reveals lost Maya structures in forests of Campeche

Laser scanning reveals lost Maya structures in forests of Campeche

Archaelogists working with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have identified ancient Maya settlements in the vicinity of Calakmul, a historic site in the state of Campeche, using light detection and ranging (Lidar), a remote scanning technology.


John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art

John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art

“John has been pushing the boundaries of art for decades and ‘crystalline work’ is his most ambitious and thought-provoking artwork to date,” Feral File cofounder Casey Reas said in a statement.


A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

Visitors to MoMI will be able to acquire, without any costs, a fragment of digital art from moving-image works projected on the giant media wall in the museum’s lobby.


Art of the Ice Age has a lot to teach us—it’s time the British Museum dedicated a gallery to it

Art of the Ice Age has a lot to teach us—it’s time the British Museum dedicated a gallery to it

The collections include many finds from French sites like the rock shelter of La Madeleine, excavated during the 19th century, and also objects found at Montastruc on the river Aveyron—notably the famous Swimming Reindeer, brilliantly carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk.


Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam says it will return a painting by Henri Matisse to the heirs of a Jewish textiles manufacturer who sold it under duress in the Netherlands before being deported to a Nazi camp, where he died in 1945.


Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister

Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister

Almost five years after taking the helm of Warsaw’s preeminent contemporary art institution, the Ujazdowski Castle (CCA), Piotr Bernatowicz has been removed from his post by the Polish minister of culture, Hanna Wróblewska.


Florida’s Ron DeSantis Says ‘Sexual’ Festival Caused Him to Veto $32 M. in Arts Grants

Florida’s Ron DeSantis Says ‘Sexual’ Festival Caused Him to Veto $32 M. in Arts Grants

Democratic Representative Anna Eskamani of Orlando said this year’s festival was not “sexual,” though she noted that it “does feature drag queens and other forms of artistic expression that DeSantis has wanted to censor despite courts telling him otherwise!”