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Friends who paint together stay together 👨‍🎨👨‍🎨 Celebrate #InternationalFriendshipDay with a look at this painting of Claude Monet by Edouard Manet. While Manet was making this of Monet and his family, Monet painted Manet at his easel. (Jinx!) Learn more: https://t.co/n7pakt7geF https://t.co/p9Oq3VbygB

We’re exploring themes from the current Getty Villa exhibition "Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins," and today’s theme is cylinder seals! https://t.co/LSUO042QPb

Once smuggled out of Iraq, the Gilgamesh Dream tablet has been seized by U.S. authorities and will be returned: https://t.co/FSyHoF09aS https://t.co/dy3tQ0NFiy

Artist and architecture student James Cook gives the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” new meaning with his incredible typewriter art. https://t.co/bxJSfQOTsg https://t.co/nKTdl4pLZe

The UK artist Osman Yousefzada has wrapped a five-ton canvas around a department store in Birmingham, creating one of the world’s largest pieces of public art https://t.co/xd7j5AdlOi

Yayoi Kusama’s colorful, plant-filled creations capture the spirit of summer. Here are 10 works by the artist on the Artnet Gallery Network: https://t.co/iPRPbJf55H https://t.co/26Z7r2fm76

Here's the underside of the seal's lower cap, which bears an image of an ibex standing atop a stylized mountain. https://t.co/IbvShR2YVP

Who's excited for the Newport Jazz Festival! 🎶 Get jazzed (...we couldn't help ourselves...) with our latest #MetLiveArts digital premiere featuring the spirited sound of composer and multi-instrumentalist Mulatu Astatke—the father of Ethio-jazz. Watch: https://t.co/FdlbgFbqjp https://t.co/knhPdtUQ7u

A warehouse belonging to the Cinemateca, the national film institute in São Paulo, Brazil, went up in flames Thursday night — the extent of the material damage is not yet known. https://t.co/bJCgeXaoqX

A 14-year-old boy has committed suicide by leaping from the Vessel, marking the fourth suicide that has happened at the spiralling structure in New York https://t.co/wnvUz69npp

Its engraved scene shows a person standing before a seated deity and making an offering. This seal is noteworthy for the survival of its gold caps, which allowed it to be worn as an amulet. These gold settings could also be engraved with decoration. https://t.co/9rkXeHsc7e

The Centre Pompidou has tapped 39-year-old Xavier Rey to direct the museum as it embarks on a crucial three-year revamp: https://t.co/FUrPpGgG1m https://t.co/uCx08LS5Xw

This science infographic starts with the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago and ends with present-day humans living in manmade cities. https://t.co/NmPa6ZuKfi

The socialite and art dealer Angela Gulbenkian has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison over the fraudulent sale of a Yayoi Kusama sculpture and the misuse of funds https://t.co/icNYyXqtrh

Now that its Brooklyn collection has grown to 55,000 globally submitted books, The Sketchbook Project needs help. Our editor-in-chief @christopherjobs talks with @sketchbkproject founder Steven Peterman about the organization's future. Read the interview: https://t.co/HUKHGmakIP https://t.co/h2hlJx5Rpi