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Janis Goodman, contemporary printmaker based in the UK, who creates work featuring city and countryside #WomensArt #Summer https://t.co/8pZ8lX80Uj

“What shocks me is all these White artists thought they were showing the truth in representing the oppressed. But the truth is they didn’t know anything about the people they represented.” — @FabienneKanor, writer, filmmaker, and activist #CarpeauxRecast https://t.co/kHiBVeQhEX

"The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome" is now on view at the Getty Center. In Renaissance Rome, the facades of many prominent buildings were painted with elaborate narrative frescoes. Once part of the city's fabric, only a few remain. https://t.co/elwnvFiwOD

Morris Hirshfield, a once obscure shoe designer and self-taught artist, is having a major resurgence, with an upcoming retrospective at New York’s American Folk Art Museum. https://t.co/9RrYLcR0ar

An Iraq court just sentenced a British tourist to 15 years in prison for taking pottery shards from an archaeology site: https://t.co/HQ7IZ8ggcz https://t.co/BAZeQKnCnb

'Tabac Opposite Palais de Justice' ( c.1956) one of the many pen and ink sketches by US poet Sylvia Plath #WomensArt https://t.co/t9B247je10

Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" was damaged and stolen in November 1986. It was miraculously recovered in 2017, and today you can see the newly conserved painting here in Los Angeles: https://t.co/d5WiYarROq https://t.co/P3rJm1Nhyj

The data shows that less than 20 percent of living artists and others who have been historically underrepresented are the subject of museum shows across the U.S. https://t.co/Eczdo9fW2U

Miguel Ángel Blanch built the Flying Dutchman ship from the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie over the course of 10 months. https://t.co/COsGwEu2Rl https://t.co/nfNneZPs58

The Getty Foundation’s Paper Project will fund a range of initiatives by curators studying prints, drawings, and other forms of graphic art. https://t.co/xhiZwBf1Mh

'Wing Span' by Sarah Haskell, award-winning US textile artist and educator #WomensArt https://t.co/D6SPXkxnK8

A British man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling antiquities out of Iraq this week, bringing a dramatic end to a case that has received worldwide attention. https://t.co/Ri5MICJozy

Want to learn more? Join curator Julian Brooks tomorrow for a talk at @iiclosangeles at 6 pm. You'll see stunning examples of Rome's Painted façades and discover what can still be seen of them today. https://t.co/WvCmVQzZ4y https://t.co/XYOHVE1Nvb

Cozy Winter Day in Lapland, Finland ❄️ by leviniglut 🎵 austin farwell - Not Forgotten https://t.co/ZuilG3ac8k

Artist Erica Green’s textile installation manifests as an act of repair, but the experience is one of surviving more than mending. https://t.co/J4SSXX9WcZ