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On this day in 1929, Yayoi Kusama was born. Still active at age 93, Kusama continues to dazzle audiences with her kaleidoscopic visions fueled by polka dots, flowers, and nets https://t.co/2Ke5eVFxpP

Marina Abramović is recreating her iconic ‘The Artist Is Present’ to raise money for Ukrainians in need https://t.co/3LOwNbRlr2 https://t.co/VBzGPGaXQX

#AdrianArmstrong, Brown Skin 001, 2022 https://t.co/mw2VXCNBBM https://t.co/qxwgUp30xz

Before Beeple there was Yves Klein, who mastered the art of convincing people to pay money for not really anything at all. A 1959 receipt of purchase for an invisible "empty zone" by the artist will go on sale @Sothebys Paris for €500,000 next month https://t.co/qAq9lwKGlf

Painter Agnes Martin, who was born 100 years ago today, is most often associated with Minimalism, but her work endeavored to express the universal conditions of humanity. https://t.co/8EuC33PX4x

"You go to The Cloisters to be exposed to ideas. The great chain of being is exposed there." — Martha Rosler, contemporary artist Fancy a trip to the Middle Ages? Take a virtual journey to The Met Cloisters on the #MetPrimer. 🦄✨ https://t.co/VwKt0FEoY5

At the time, it wasn't unusual for a widow to take over her husband's work after his death. Werniers managed a 20-loom workshop with at least 20 employees...and that was in addition to managing her home and raising kids. She successfully ran the workshop until her death in 1778. https://t.co/zXF4fYgojd

For Ukrainian refugees fleeing with their pets, finding animal-friendly housing can be difficult. Luckily, this guy is helping them out. https://t.co/81qqbNk64Y

The Smithsonian will announce a list of around six potential sites for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women’s History Museum this summer https://t.co/AtK4RE9GSU @smithsonian

“My paintings are about merging, about formlessness ... A world without objects, without interruption.” - Agnes Martin (born #OTD in 1912) https://t.co/iYce0n1B4t @mao_gallery @haywardgallery https://t.co/ADG885nJfu

NYC’s arts sector was among the hardest hit during the pandemic. Now, Mayor Eric Adams plans to cut the city’s culture budget by $72 million. https://t.co/XBmOyxF1Pa

A receipt related to a famed 1959 performance in which Yves Klein sold "zones" of empty space will head to auction at Sotheby's https://t.co/4EAQjEGZXx

Tapestries like this were known as verdures because of their rich green (verdant) tones. This tapestry was made by a workshop owned by Katharine Ghuys Werniers, otherwise known as the Widow Guillaume Werniers. Werniers took over the workshop after her husband died in 1738. https://t.co/C85dB0oh4N

Metaferia’s work embodies and shifts the feminist mantra of the personal is political to the intimate is political. https://t.co/riwWkgpjeR